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Strategies To Sustain Small Businesses Beyond 5 Years, Kayaso Cosmas Wani
Strategies To Sustain Small Businesses Beyond 5 Years, Kayaso Cosmas Wani
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
According to the U.S. Small Business Association, the failure rates for small businesses in 2014 were as high as 50% to 80% within the first 5 years of establishment. The purpose for this multiple case study was to explore the strategies that small business owners have used to sustain their businesses beyond 5 years. Guided by entrepreneurship theory as the conceptual framework, and a purposive sampling method, this qualitative case study used semistructured interviews with 3 successful, small, ethnic grocery business owners in Anchorage, AK to better understand small business strategies for survival. Member checking and triangulation with field notes, …