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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      25 October 2011
      21 November 1985
      ISBN:
      9780511898396
      9780521125581
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511898396
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      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.32kg, 244 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Geography, Planning and Urban Geography
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    Major changes have taken place in the attitude of governments towards small firms. Public encouragement of the small firm is not, however, without its pitfalls and in this collection of essays (first published in 1985) the contribution of small businesses to economic development is assessed in a number of different localities. The authors show that public policies designed to influence a wide variety of small businesses are doomed to failure. Entrepreneurial independence, contrasting regional prosperity and the variable rate of response to central policy initiatives are amongst the factors mitigating against the success of such a policy. The small business is not to be seen as a panacea for solving the economic development problems of areas suffering from high rates of unemployment, and their overall conclusion is that assistance to small firms should be more selective than is customarily the norm.

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