Small Business Management pp 369-382 | Cite as
Managing Growth
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Most firms are born to die or stagnate. They do not grow to any size. It is estimated that over two-thirds of businesses consist of only one or two people and often the second person is the spouse. Three-quarters of the rest employ 10 or fewer people. Almost 97 per cent of firms employ fewer than 20 people, over 99 per cent fewer than 100, and only 9,000 — less than a third of 1 per cent — employ 200 or more. Britain is a country of very small, small firms.
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- Paul Burns and James Dewhurst, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Macmillan, 1990.Google Scholar
- Stuart Slatter, Gambling on Growth: How to Manage the Small High-Tech Firm, John Wiley, 1992.Google Scholar
- Karl H. Vesper, New Venture Strategies, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 1990.Google Scholar
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© Jim Dewhurst and Paul Burns 1993