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Understanding the Development of Small Business Policy book cover

1st Edition

Understanding the Development of Small Business Policy

Edited By Thomas M. Cooney Copyright 2019
144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge
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It is not widely understood that the importance of small businesses only became apparent with the publication of David Birch’s book The Job Generation Process in 1979. Over the past four decades, governments across the globe have struggled to design, implement and evaluate policies that benefit the development of small firms. Deciding whether macro or micro policies are more appropriate for a... Read more

Introduction  1. Entrepreneurship policy: issues and challenges  2. The evolution of public policy affecting small business in the United States since Birch  3. The evolution of small business policy in Australia and New Zealand  4. Small and medium-sized enterprises policy in Korea from the 1960s to the 2000s and beyond  5. The financing of new firms: what governments need to know  6. Government agencies should be exemplars of business behaviour  7. Colombia small- and medium-sized enterprise’s 70 years of progress: what’s next?  8. Does 'entrepreneurship' exist?

Biography

Thomas M. Cooney is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland. He is also Policy Advisor to governments, the European Commission and international organisations, and has a strong publication record in the fields of entrepreneurship and small business. He is a director of several enterprises and works with commercial and not-for-profit organisations.

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