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Entrepreneurs: Interrelationships Between Their Characteristics, Values, Expectations, Management Practices and SME Performance
Category: Professions and Industries
Tags: sme, management
Overview The purposes of this study is, first, to determine the importance of the attributed and attained characteristics of the entrepreneur on the formation of his or her values and expectations; second, to determine the influence of those values and expectations on the choice of management practices; third, to determine the degree to which those management practices influence business performance; and last, to develop a scale of measurement for entrepreneur characteristics, values and expectations that can be used to predict business performance. To enable limited comparison with Kotey's and Meredith's (1997) findings and to control for between industry and between state influences, the chosen context for the study was the furniture industry in Queensland.
- Publisher
- Griffith University
- File Format
- PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
- Date Published
- May 20, 2005
- Format
- Case Studies
- Topics
- Performance Budgeting and Management
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