Small business management and control of the uncertain external environment

From the vagaries of the economy, through to varying degrees of social unrest, to the impact of adverse weather, businesses of all forms and sizes across the globe must cope with ongoing change, uncertainty, and risk. In this unpredictable environment, how can SMEs react and control external factors...

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Other Authors Biginas, Konstantinos (Editor), Sindakis, Stavros (Editor), Koumproglou, Antonia (Editor), Sarantinos, Vlasios (Editor), Wyer, Peter (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
SeriesAdvanced strategies in entrepreneurship, education and ecology.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781839096266
DOI10.1108/9781839096242
Physical Description1 online resource (xxiii, 271 pages).

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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The Distinctiveness of Small Businesses / Shaun Bowman and Peter Wyer
  • Chapter 2. Toward Understanding of Best Small Business Strategic Management Practice / Peter Wyer, Bob Barrett and Konstantinos Biginas
  • Chapter 3. The Finer Micro-level Detail of Small Business Strategic Management / Peter Wyer, Antonia Koumproglou and Shaun Bowman
  • Chapter 4. Exploring the Unique Start-Up Organisational Culture / Antonia Koumproglou and Konstantinos Biginas
  • Chapter 5. An investigation of the expansion and influence of Western Paradigms in Transnational Education and the impact for SMEs / Vlasios Sarantinos
  • Chapter 6. Leadership: It's role within Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises / Gratien David Pillai
  • Chapter 7. Small Businesses and the Changing Competitive Environment / Konstantinos Biginas and Antonia Koumproglou
  • Chapter 8. How can SMEs overcome skill shortages and talent mismatches / Zaira Pedron
  • Chapter 9. Key issues in SME management Small is beautiful or a Bleak House in the Brexit backdrop / Vlasios Sarantinos
  • Chapter 10. Improving Employee Engagement in Small and Medium Enterprises / Roopa Nagori
  • Chapter 11. The Implications of Brexit for SMEs in the U.K. / Stavros Sindakis and Sakshi Aggarwal
  • Chapter 12. Contemporary HRM practices in Japanese SMEs / Aaron Taylor
  • Chapter 13. E-business adoption by SMEs: Benefits, and Drawbacks / Stavros Sindakis and Sakshi Aggarwal
  • Chapter 14. Financing SME's: The agony of securing funding / Nikolas Hourvouliades
  • Chapter 15. Conclusion / Peter Wyer.