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