This paper explores the relationship between the selected facets of small business managerial capabilities and their early stage performance. Every new venture has a certain potential to contribute to economic output, employment and renewal of the industrial structure. Research about the factors that influence the performance of emerging small businesses can play a key role in the development of public policy in this area. This study examines the impact of managerial capability on small business performance. Using a sample of small enterprises in Science and TechnologyParks, it was found that managerial capability had three dimensions: marketing management, financial/operations management, and technological capability. The positive relationship between the first two constructs and the performance variables help to identify the key management activities during start-up stage. The dominant catalyst appears to be marketing capability. Furthermore, the level of marketing capability was found to be associated with the proportion of financing secured from outside sources.
malekzadah, G., & kazemi, M. (2010). Factors Influencing Early Stage Performance of Small Firms
Case Study : (Science and Technology Parks Incubators Small Firms). Journal of Business Administration Researches, 2(3), 140-162.
MLA
gholamreza malekzadah; mostafa kazemi. "Factors Influencing Early Stage Performance of Small Firms
Case Study : (Science and Technology Parks Incubators Small Firms)". Journal of Business Administration Researches, 2, 3, 2010, 140-162.
HARVARD
malekzadah, G., kazemi, M. (2010). 'Factors Influencing Early Stage Performance of Small Firms
Case Study : (Science and Technology Parks Incubators Small Firms)', Journal of Business Administration Researches, 2(3), pp. 140-162.
VANCOUVER
malekzadah, G., kazemi, M. Factors Influencing Early Stage Performance of Small Firms
Case Study : (Science and Technology Parks Incubators Small Firms). Journal of Business Administration Researches, 2010; 2(3): 140-162.
