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Making Plans - Home-Based Businesses, Calvin Wang, Elizabeth Walker, Janice Redmond, John Breen
Making Plans - Home-Based Businesses, Calvin Wang, Elizabeth Walker, Janice Redmond, John Breen
John M. Breen
Home-based businesses are a ‘hidden engine’ that are poorly understood and inadequately supported, claim Calvin Wang, Elizabeth A. Walker, Janice Redmond and John Breen. They undertook research to gain more insight into this sector. Continuous economic activity is vital to Australia and the main driver for the past 20 years has been small business, often referred to by politicians as the ‘engine room’ of the economy. However, little is known about those businesses that operate from a home-base, even though these represent the largest cohort both within the small business sector and the wider business community. This is potentially an …