Small Businesses
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T. Fuller states that, historically, all business operated at a small scale and were centred on the individual ......
Even now there are strong cultural ..... to individual enterprise.
Over the centuries, business has emerged, legitimised by reflexive social ..... of entrepreneurship and fuelled by regulated international free trade, competition, property rights and usury.
In this ....., small businesses are increasingly important but relatively powerless.
The overall thesis is that small businesses, once ....., have been systematically othered, then homogenised.
The article traces a brief history of small business from post-medieval times, through the Industrial Revolution to the ..... day.
In doing so, it ..... a number of principles upon which small business in the UK is founded, and illustrates how corporatism has emerged as these principles evolved.
Small business is ..... as being in a weak position relative to corporate business but co-dependent upon it.
The link between the entrepreneurial individuals and innovation is discussed, outlining a view that entrepreneurs may best be ..... by corporate ecologies.
The future trajectory of small business in the UK and Europe is by ..... certain.
