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    Owner Occupier Drivers of Success in Small Business: Comparing Soft Drivers with Hard Work

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    Open access
    Authors
    Soontiens, Werner
    Weber, Paull
    Geneste, Louis
    Date
    2012
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Soontiens, Werner and Weber, Paull and Geneste, Louis. 2012. Owner Occupier Drivers of Success in Small Business: Comparing Soft Drivers with Hard Work, in Pillai, R. and Ozbilgin, M. and Harley, B. and Hartel, C. (ed), Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM), Dec 5-7 2012. Perth, Australia: ANZAM.
    Source Title
    The Proceedings of the 26TH Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM)
    Source Conference
    26TH Annual Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management Conference (ANZAM)
    ISBN
    978-0-9874158-1-3
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42239
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Despite small and medium sized enterprises accounting for the majority of business activity in most economies and its appeal as a driver of economic growth, there is a lingering uncertainty around the motivation for engaging in SME activities as most SME owners have no growth aspirations. The notion of understanding success and its drivers is prominent in that small business closure rates can reach 9 per cent of the total business stock of a country. To date little empirical evidence provides insight in person-oriented drivers of survival and success of small businesses. This paper addresses these shortcomings somewhat and reports on unstructured feedback collected from small business owners in respect of their perception and experience of driver of success.

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