The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development

The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development
Author: Kelly D. Edmiston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN:

Increasingly, economic development experts are abandoning traditional approaches to economic development that rely on recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other inducements. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the ground up and supporting the growth of existing enterprises. This paper explores whether promoting entrepreneurship and small businesses makes sense as an economic development strategy. It concludes that it probably does, but with some caveats. Small businesses are potent job creators, but so are large businesses. The attribution of the bulk of net job creation to small businesses arises largely from relatively large job losses at large firms, not to especially robust job creation by small firms. More important, data show that, on average, large businesses offer better jobs than small businesses, both in terms of compensation and stability. Further, there is little convincing evidence to suggest that small businesses have an edge over larger businesses in innovation. More research is needed to properly evaluate the case for a small business strategy, and indeed, to determine whether or not public engagement in economic development itself is a cost-effective and worthwhile pursuit.

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
Author: Wim Naudé
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2010-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0230295150

Leading international scholars provide a timely reconsideration of how and why entrepreneurship matters for economic development, particularly in emerging and developing economies. The book critically dissects the evolving relationship between entrepreneurs and the state.

Sustaining Growth and Performance in East Asia

Sustaining Growth and Performance in East Asia
Author: Charles Harvie
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781845425630

This third book in the series focuses on how small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) contribute to achieving and sustaining growth and performance in their economies, as well as the ways in which governments can assist and enhance that contribution. This is of particular concern given the trauma suffered by East Asian economies in the wake of the financial and economic crisis of 1997-98. Faced with the need to restructure and reform their economies and thereby achieve a firm foundation for future sustainable growth, many East Asian countries actively pursued SME growth, focusing on the encouragement of entrepreneurialism in the private sector. Drawing on the insights of a wide range of SME experts, the book provides a broad coverage of important aspects of SMEs, including: the contribution of micro-enterprises to economic recovery and poverty alleviation measurement and evaluation issues managing knowledge development ethical values in SMEs the internationalisation process entry mode decisions in export markets technological sourcing and use of the Internet. Presenting a contemporary analysis of SME developments in East Asia, both academics and policymakers will find Sustaining Growth and Performance in East Asia of great interest.

The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development

The Role of Small and Large Businesses in Economic Development
Author: Kelly D. Edmiston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre:
ISBN:

Increasingly, economic development experts are abandoning traditional approaches to economic development that rely on recruiting large enterprises with tax breaks, financial incentives, and other inducements. Instead, they are relying on building businesses from the ground up and supporting the growth of existing enterprises. This paper explores whether promoting entrepreneurship and small businesses makes sense as an economic development strategy. It concludes that it probably does, but with some caveats. Small businesses are potent job creators, but so are large businesses. The attribution of the bulk of net job creation to small businesses arises largely from relatively large job losses at large firms, not to especially robust job creation by small firms. More important, data show that, on average, large businesses offer better jobs than small businesses, both in terms of compensation and stability. Further, there is little convincing evidence to suggest that small businesses have an edge over larger businesses in innovation. More research is needed to properly evaluate the case for a small business strategy, and indeed, to determine whether or not public engagement in economic development itself is a cost-effective and worthwhile pursuit.

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses
Author: John Haltiwanger
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2017-09-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022645407X

Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges brings together and unprecedented group of economists, data providers, and data analysts to discuss research on the state of entrepreneurship and to address the challenges in understanding this dynamic part of the economy. Each chapter addresses the challenges of measuring entrepreneurship and how entrepreneurial firms contribute to economies and standards of living. The book also investigates heterogeneity in entrepreneurs, challenges experienced by entrepreneurs over time, and how much less we know than we think about entrepreneurship given data limitations. This volume will be a groundbreaking first serious look into entrepreneurship in the NBER's Income and Wealth series.

Economics Of Small Business, The: An Introductory Survey

Economics Of Small Business, The: An Introductory Survey
Author: Roger A Mccain
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2018-04-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9813231262

This survey reviews research on the economics of small business, introducing key concepts for the understanding of the research, including some basic microeconomics, distribution functions, and concepts of entrepreneurship. Accessible to readers with elementary knowledge of economics and probability, the book is suitable as a text for an undergraduate course in the economics of small business. It also covers the economics of organization, the role of the family in small business, human capital and nonpecuniary motivation, together with the relationship of small business to entrepreneurship and growth. Public policy toward small business is discussed with an emphasis on the United States, together with comparisons and contrasts of many other countries.

Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth

Entrepreneurship and Economic Growth
Author: David B. Audretsch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2006-04-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 019029311X

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge has emerged as a crucial source for comparative advantage, but also why entrepreneurship plays a vital role in generating economic growth. Entrepreneurship is an important mechanism permeating the knowledge filter to facilitate the spill over of knowledge and ultimately generate economic growth.

Small Enterprises and Economic Development

Small Enterprises and Economic Development
Author: Carl E. Liedholm
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135118159

Micro and small enterprises (MSEs) have been recognized as a major contemporary source of employment and income in a growing number of developing countries. Yet, relatively little is known about the characteristics and patterns of change in these enterprises. This volume examines the dynamics of MSEs in the development process. Drawing on a unique set of surveys conducted in twelve countries in Africa and Latin America the authors map the patterns of change in MSEs in the developing world. Subjects covered include: * significance of new start and closure rates of MSEs * factors involved in expansion rates and growth patterns of MSEs * the role of gender in MSEs evolution.

OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Outlook 2021

OECD SME and Entrepreneurship Outlook 2021
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-06-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9264579311

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurs have been hit hard during the COVID-19 crisis. Policy responses were quick and unprecedented, helping cushion the blow and maintain most SMEs and entrepreneurs afloat. Despite the magnitude of the shock, available data so far point to sustained start-ups creation, no wave of bankruptcies, and an impulse to innovation in most OECD countries.