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Developing A Holistic Approach For Tackling Undeclared Work: Background Paper, Colin C. Williams
Developing A Holistic Approach For Tackling Undeclared Work: Background Paper, Colin C. Williams
Colin C Williams
Encouraging Entrepreneurship: Resources Supporting Small Business Startup And Growth, Karen A. Eagle
Encouraging Entrepreneurship: Resources Supporting Small Business Startup And Growth, Karen A. Eagle
STEMPS Theses & Dissertations
Small business success drives the health of a local economy. The problem of this three phase mixed methods study was to encourage entrepreneurship by identifying the resources that support business startup and growth. In the first qualitative phase, the city business resource webpage was observed and 10 entrepreneurs were interviewed to identify which business resources were used for their recent startups. Using the data from the interviews, a survey instrument was developed for the Small Business Subcommittee (SBS) that was used in the second quantitative phase which included 351 business owners; 35% were women and 65% were men. The sample …