Profiles in Small Business: A Competitive Strategy Approach (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415098281)

A new analytical approach to small firms' cases, which
* Uses rich primary source data on modern small businesses
* Combines business strategy and industrial organization
* Presents detailed Profiles on diverse small businesses
* Shows how successful small businesses achieve competitive advantage
* Considers both extended rivalry and financial structure
* Shows how to ground' small business theory in reality
Profiles in Small Businesses has a companion volume Small Business Enterprise by Gavin Reid (also published by Routledge, Hb: 0-415-05681-0: 45.00) which contains a full analysis (ranging from econometrics to the ethics of competition) of the larger sample of small businesses from which the Profiles are drawn.