Small Firms in Regional Economic Development : Britain, Ireland and the United States (Paperback)

List of contributors; 1. Introduction D. J. Storey; 2. Manufacturing employment change in Northern England 1965?78: the role of small businesses D. J. Storey; 3. New firms and rural industrialisation in East Anglia A. Gould and D. Keeble; 4. Spatial variations in new firm formation in the United Kingdom: comparative evidence from Merseyside, Greater Manchester and South Hampshire P. E. Lloyd and M. Mason; 5. An industrial and spatial analysis of new firm formation in Ireland P. N. O'Farrell and R. Crouchley; 6. Innovation and regional growth in small high technology firms: evidence from Britain and the USA R. P. Oakey; 7. Regional variations in capital structure of new small businesses: the Wisconsin case R. E. Shaffer and G. C. Pulver; 8. The world of small business: turbulence and survival A. R. Markusen and M. B. Teitz; 9. The implications for policy D. J. Storey; Index.