Entrepreneurial retrenchment among small manufacturing firms (Record no. 43878)
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Robbins, D Keith |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Entrepreneurial retrenchment among small manufacturing firms |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Robbins, D Keith. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1993 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 301 - 318 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Strategic management researchers have traditionally focused on growth-oriented strategies for small firms. Yet studies of small businesses have consistently cited overzealous pursuit of growth as the number one contributor to financial decline and failure. Record numbers of small firms are finding themselves confronted with declines of sufficient magnitude to require the implementation of turnaround strategies. Much has been written about turnaround strategies for large corporations - the problem is that the commonly recommended turnaround strategies are not often feasible for small firms. Unfortunately, there are no investigations reported in the literature that approach the subject of turnaround from the perspective of the small-market-share businesses. The purpose of this research was to explore turnaround from the small firm perspective. The study focused on the turnaround strategy most often referred to as entrepreneurial retrenchment, i.e., the aggressive pursuit of cost and asset reduction. The results showed that firms that pursued entrepreneurial retrenchment were more successful than firms that continued to pursue growth with the preexisting configuration of... |
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| Main entry heading | Journal of Business Venturing |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Jul |
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| Ahmedabad (HO) | Ahmedabad (HO) | 21/06/2016 | Vol. 8, Issue. 4 | 020348 | 21/06/2016 | 21/06/2016 | Articles |