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Publisher
Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Designed to facilitate the start-up, development and growth of specific small businesses, as well as similar listings for general small business topics. Entries are provided on a state-by-state basis; also included are relevant U.S. federal government agencies and branch offices.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Despite popular belief to the contrary, entrepreneurship in the United States is dying. It has been since before the Great Recession of 2008, and the negative trend in American entrepreneurship has been accelerated by the Covid pandemic. New firms are being started at a slower rate, are employing fewer workers, and are being formed disproportionately in just a few major cities in the U.S. At the same time, large chains are opening more locations....
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When [small business owner] Paul Downs was approached by The New York Times to write for [its] 'You're the Boss' blog, he had been running his custom furniture business for twenty-four years strong--or mostly strong. Now, in his first book, Downs paints an honest portrait of a real business, with a real boss, a real set of employees, and the real challenges they face"--
Author
Publisher
Polity Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"We live in a world of seemingly limitless consumer choice. Yet, as every shopper knows without thinking about it, many everyday goods - from beds to batteries to printer paper - are available in a finite number of "standard sizes." What makes these sizes "standard" is an agreement among competing firms to make or sell products with the same limited dimensions. But how did firms - often hotly competing firms - reach such collective agreements? In...
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