Small Business Management and Control of the Uncertain External Environment

Konstantinos Biginis is Lecturer and Module Leader at Coventry University London, UK. Stavros Sindakis is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at the University of Sharjah, UAE.  Antonia Koumproglou is a Lecturer and Module Leader in Business Management and Organizational Behaviour modules at Coventry University London, UK.  Vlasios Sarantinos is Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK.  Peter Wyer is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Cambridge, UK.

• Chapter 1. The Distinctiveness of Small Businesses; Shaun Bowman and Peter Wyer  Chapter 2. Toward Understanding of Best Small Business Strategic Management Practice; Peter Wyer, Bob Barrett and Konstantinos Biginas Chapter 3. The Finer Micro-level Detail of Small Business Strategic Management; Peter Wyer, Antonia Koumproglou and Shaun Bowman Chapter 4. Exploring the Unique Start-Up Organisational Culture; Antonia Koumproglou and Konstantinos Biginas Chapter 5. An investigation of the expansion and influence of Western Paradigms in Transnational Education and the impact for SMEs; Vlasios Sarantinos Chapter 6. Leadership: It’s role within Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises; Gratien David Pillai Chapter 7. Small Businesses and the Changing Competitive Environment; Konstantinos Biginas and Antonia Koumproglou Chapter 8. How can SMEs overcome skill shortages and talent mismatches; Zaira Pedron Chapter 9. Key issues in SME management Small is beautiful or a Bleak House in the Brexit backdrop; Vlasios Sarantinos Chapter 10. Improving Employee Engagement in Small and Medium Enterprises; Roopa Nagori Chapter 11. The Implications of Brexit for SMEs in the U.K.; Stavros Sindakis and Sakshi Aggarwal Chapter 12. Contemporary HRM practices in Japanese SMEs; Aaron Taylor Chapter 13. E-business adoption by SMEs: Benefits, and Drawbacks; Stavros Sindakis and Sakshi AggarwalChapter 14. Financing SME's: The agony of securing funding; Nikolas Hourvouliades Chapter 15. Conclusion; Peter Wyer