1st Edition
Small Business, Big Government and the Origins of Enterprise Policy The UK Bolton Committee
120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
120 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Small Firms (the Bolton Committee Report) was produced at a time of significant political change. The 1970s in the UK saw the beginning of the end for interventionism and ‘big government’ and the emergence of a new free market, economic liberalism. However, the same period also saw the creation of what became a substantial agenda to intervene in the... Read more
1. Small business and big government 2. The small firm in the age of the giant enterprise 3. From little acorns: The origins and establishment of the Bolton Committee 4. Searching for answers: Listening to small firms and other stakeholders 5. Searching for answers: The Committee’s data collection effort 6. Small business and small government? 7. Recommending the future of enterprise policy: A less than dramatic response 8. Bolton 50 years on
Biography
Robert Wapshott is Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Haydn Green Institute, University of Nottingham, UK.
Oliver Mallett is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Stirling, UK.
