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Strategies For Small Energy Consulting Business Survivability, Scholastica Nwabueze
Strategies For Small Energy Consulting Business Survivability, Scholastica Nwabueze
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Small businesses are critical to economic development. Small businesses create job opportunities and training and innovative products and services, but they encounter significant challenges and many fail in the first 7 years due to lack of sustainable strategies. The purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies owners used to sustain small energy consulting businesses for longer than 7 years. The population in this study consisted of 5 senior executives of a small energy consulting firm in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area. The conceptual framework for the study was the transformational leadership theory that deals with vision and …