All Outputs (8)

Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women's enterprise policy (2024)
Journal Article

Purpose: This research paper generates new insights into the challenges of implementation in women’s enterprise policy. It argues that organisations involved in policy implementation need to be understood as operating in a context of institutional pl... Read More about Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women's enterprise policy.

Work engagement and the impact of a social identity crafting approach to leadership: a case from Africa’s air transport industry (2024)
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Purpose: Managers of public organizations in liberalized sectors face the dual imperative of retaining skilled employees who might be poached by commercial competitors and improving service performance levels without a free hand to invest resources.... Read More about Work engagement and the impact of a social identity crafting approach to leadership: a case from Africa’s air transport industry.

How Do Regulations Affect SMEs? A Review of the Qualitative Evidence and a Research Agenda (2018)
Journal Article

The effects of regulations on SMEs have garnered significant political attention internationally yet, in the academic literature, these effects remain contested. This article presents findings from a systematic literature review of qualitative eviden... Read More about How Do Regulations Affect SMEs? A Review of the Qualitative Evidence and a Research Agenda.

Small and medium-sized enterprise policy: Designed to fail? (2017)
Journal Article

Significant doubts persist over the effectiveness of government policy to increase the numbers or performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the UK economy. We analyse UK political manifestoes from 1964 to 2015 to examine the development o... Read More about Small and medium-sized enterprise policy: Designed to fail?.

In Quest of Legitimacy: The Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Entrepreneurship Education Research (2016)
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This special issue editorial discusses the current state of entrepreneurship education research and identifies the ways in which the three quite different papers comprising this Special Issue contribute to advancing the theoretical and methodological... Read More about In Quest of Legitimacy: The Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Entrepreneurship Education Research.

Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs (2015)
Journal Article

The enterprise culture is a pervasive socio-historical discourse. This article adopts a narrative identity work approach to explore how individuals may exert agency to make sense of and negotiate with the structuring features of such discourses. Olde... Read More about Making Sense of Self-Employment in Late Career: Understanding the Identity Work of Olderpreneurs.

You Try To Be A Fair Employer' Regulations and employment relationships in medium-sized firms (2014)
Journal Article

'You try to be a fair employer': Regulation and employment relationships in medium-sized firms Abstract In this article, we explore the dynamic, indirect effects of employment regulation through a qualitative study of three medium-sized enterprises a... Read More about You Try To Be A Fair Employer' Regulations and employment relationships in medium-sized firms.

Informality and Employment Relationships in Small Firms: Humour, Ambiguity and Straight?talking (2012)
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This paper presents in-depth qualitative research on three small professional service firms whose owner-managers sought to introduce greater degrees of formality in their firms' working practices and employment relationships. We focus on humour as an... Read More about Informality and Employment Relationships in Small Firms: Humour, Ambiguity and Straight?talking.