This workbook accompanies the textbook Small Business Management: Theory and Practice.

The textbook familiarises students with the theory and practice of small business management and challenges assumptions that may be held about the way small business management can or should adopt the management practices of larger firms.

For students interested in establishing and managing their own small firm, this book helps them to focus their thinking on the realities of life as a small business owner-manager - both its challenges and its rewards.

For postgraduate students that are keen to 'make a difference', this text enables them to understand how they might consult to small firms and assist owner-managers to establish and grow their ventures.

In addition to students, this book is also useful to small business owner-managers as a general guide on how they might better manage their operations. Managers in large corporations and financial institutions who deal with small businesses as clients or suppliers, and professionals such as accountants, lawyers and consultants who provide advice and other services to small businesses will also find the book of interest.

Autorentext

Tim Mazzarol is Professor at the University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, specialising in entrepreneurship, innovation, small business management, marketing, and strategy. His research interests lie in strategic management of small firms, innovation and commercialisation management in small firms, entrepreneurship, and cooperative enterprise, amongst others.

Sophie Reboud is Head of Research and Professor of Strategy and Management of Innovation at the Burgundy School of Business, Dijon, France. Her research focuses on small business and SMEs, innovation, entrepreneurship, and strategy.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: The role of the small business within the economy.- Chapter 2: Entrepreneurs vs. owner-managers.- Chapter 3: Surviving the early years.- Chapter 4: Planning and strategy in the small firm.- Chapter 5: Creating customers.- Chapter 6: The process of growth in the small firm.- Chapter 7: Small firms and human resources.- Chapter 8: Debt vs. equity.- Chapter 9: Cash flows, profit and working capital.- Chapter 10: Franchising and legal issues for small businesses.- Chapter 11: Buying, selling and valuing the business.- Chapter 12: The owner-manager and the troubled company.- Chapter 13: Using technology.