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Funding Strategies For Small- To Mid-Sized Enterprises, Dr. Emmanuel Ekop
Funding Strategies For Small- To Mid-Sized Enterprises, Dr. Emmanuel Ekop
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Small firms struggle to survive competition with limited resources, and about 50% of start-up organizations fail after 5 years. The purpose of this qualitative multiple case study was to explore the strategies some beauty salon owners in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States use to access financial resources to support growth for longer than 5 years. The conceptual framework for the study was the resource-based view theory of the firm. Data were collected from 6 beauty salon owners who had succeeded for longer than 5 years. Semistructured face-to-face interviews and review of archival and transcript data yielded data saturation …