Researching SME/entrepreneurial research

Gilmore, Audrey, McAuley, Andrew, Gallagher, Damian, Massiera, Philippe and Gamble, Jordan (2013) Researching SME/entrepreneurial research. Journal of Research in Marketing and Entrepreneurship, 15 (2). pp. 87-100.

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Abstract

<jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Purpose</jats:title><jats:p>– This study aims to focus on how SMEs have been researched in the first 12 years of the new millennium and published in<jats:italic>JRME</jats:italic>between 2000 and 2011. There have been many studies on how SME owner/managers do business, their decision-making processes and ways of delivering marketing activities, and many different methodologies have been used.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Design/methodology/approach</jats:title><jats:p>– All of the papers published in<jats:italic>JRME</jats:italic>from 2000 to 2011 were analysed using content analysis with Nvivo 9 in relation to the SME definitions used, methodology employed, geographical coverage and the business sectors covered.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Findings</jats:title><jats:p>– Within the context of a wider study of 14 international journals on small business and entrepreneurship, this paper presents the findings that have emerged from the<jats:italic>JRME</jats:italic>journal according to the SME definitions used, methodology employed, geographical coverage and the business sectors' covered.</jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type="abstract-heading">Originality/value</jats:title><jats:p>– This study provides some findings in relation to the variety of studies carried out and the research presented in the<jats:italic>JRME</jats:italic>over a 12-year period.</jats:p></jats:sec>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	3504 Commercial Services, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Management
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	06 Jan 2023 15:24
Last Modified:	21 Jun 2024 15:45
DOI:	10.1108/jrme-10-2012-0026
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3166899