Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Understanding Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship
Chapter 1: Small Businesses: The Big Picture
Chapter 2: Understanding Entrepreneurship
Chapter 3: Defining the Small Business
Chapter 4: Working in Small Businesses
Chapter 5: Innovation and the Small Business
Part Two: New Business Formation
Chapter 6: Defining and Measuring Start Ups
Chapter 7: New Entrepreneurs and Social Networks
Chapter 8: The Economics of Start Ups
Part Three: Business Closure
Chapter 9: Defining and Measuring Business Closure
Chapter 10: Analysing Business Closure
Part Four: Business Growth
Chapter 11: Defining Business Growth
Chapter 12: Analysing and Measuring Business Growth
Chapter 13: Growing the Business: Pre Start-Up Factors
Chapter 14: Growing the Business: At Start-Up Factors
Chapter 15: Growing the Business: Post Start-Up Factors
Part 5: Finance and the Small Business
Chapter 16: Theories of Small Business Finance
Chapter 17: Debt Finance for Small Businesses
Chapter 18: Equity Finance for Small Businesses
Part 6: Public Policy and the Small Business
Chapter 19: Public Policy, Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs
Chapter 20: Macro Policies towards Small Businesses
Chapter 21: Small Business Policy in Practice
Case Studies
Case Study 1 - Understanding Enterprise: Competition at the Crematorium - Burgess and Sons versus Austin's
Case Study 2 - Understanding Enterprise: Dragonfly Consulting - Employer or Employee?
Case Study 3 - Formation and Growth - The changing fortunes of Runner and Sprue
Part 1 - Runner and Sprue's Business Plan
Part 2 - Developing and Commercialising Runner and Sprue
Part 3 - Sprue Aegis: the IPO
Part 4 - Sprue Aegis: Reaching for the Stars and StripesBusiness
Part 5 - Growing pains for Sprue Aegis?
Case Study 4 - Business Closure: Tahir Mohsan - Running out of Time?
Case Study 5 - Business Closure: The English Grocer - Right idea, wrong time?
Case Study 6 - Finance: Four options facing Two Seasons
Case Study 7 - Public Policy In Your Hands
Part 1 - Defining 'Entrepreneurship'
Part 2 - Measuring Entrepreneurship
Part 3 - Policy Choices
Part 4 - Assessing the Policy Choice
Case Study 8 - Tax and the Small Business: Tax breaks, high stakes
Glossary