Thumbtack.Com Small Business Survey: Methodology & Analysis

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Allen ◽  
Sander Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Business Survey

scholarly journals Brexit and skill shortages: an empirical analysis of UK SMEs

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Author(s):  
Pattanapong Tiwasing
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Standard Errors ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Managerial Skills ◽  
Business Survey ◽  
Staff Recruitment ◽  
Skill Shortages

This paper examines the perspectives of SMEs on Brexit and skill shortages using cross-sectional data of 2,969 SMEs from a UK Government’s Small Business survey for 2016. The logistic regression with clustered standard errors is applied to analyse the association between SMEs considering Brexit as a major business obstacle and the probability of SMEs identifying skill shortages in their businesses. The results show that firms with a shortage of managerial skills/expertise have a 6.5% higher probability to report that Brexit will affect their businesses, followed by difficulties in staff recruitment (4.5%) and shortage of skills within external labour markets (3.8%). Policy recommendations are provided.  

scholarly journals Developing a Small Business Regulatory System

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoff Miller
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Good News ◽  
Advanced Economy ◽  
Australian Economy ◽  
Business Confidence ◽  
Business Conditions ◽  
Business Survey ◽  
The Government

IntroductionThank you for inviting me to share my thoughts on what the government is doing to reduce the burden on small business. I also look forward to hearing the other speakers talk about how to make the regulatory system more responsive and relevant to business needs.It is more than a year since the fall of Lehman Brothers and the beginning of the Australian Government’s response to the global financial crisis.Today, the Australian economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery. The Government’s policy responses have been largely responsible for placing Australia in a better position than most countries around the world.The Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) (released earlier this month) showed that the economy is performing much better than was forecast in the last Budget — MYEFO shows that Australia is the only advanced economy to have recorded positive growth through the year to June 2009. MYEFO also upgraded the growth forecasts for the following two years with consequental falls in the expected peak unemployment rate.Although this is good news, the GFC has clearly affected, and is continuing to impact on, small business.A number of Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry surveys have reported large falls in small business confidence and conditions throughout 2008 and early 2009. However, the August ACCI Small Business Survey reports that, while conditions for small business are expected to remain challenging, conditions are stabilising.This good news is supported by the most recent Commonwealth Bank – ACCI Business Expectations Survey, which shows that small, medium and large businesses are expecting business conditions to improve significantly during this quarter.It is true that small businesses succeed or fail on the creativity, ingenuity, innovation and imagination of their owners and staff. It is also true that small businesses are notoriously time poor. When considering ways to improve the regulatory framework for small businesses it is important to weigh up the desire to minimise time spent by businesses on compliance, with maintaining the integrity of the market as a whole.People in my position rely on people like you with the specific knowledge and expertise in small business matters to make sure that reforms are developed which benefit both the small business sector and the wider economy.

scholarly journals Intersections of gender, ethnicity, place and innovation: Mapping the diversity of women-led SMEs in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 681-706
Author(s):  
Beldina Owalla ◽  
Elvis Nyanzu ◽  
Tim Vorley
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Industry Sector ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Business Survey

This article advances knowledge on the diversity and heterogeneity of women-led small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the United Kingdom by analysing how gender intersects with ethnicity and place to influence their engagement in innovation. We adopt an intersectional perspective, and base our analyses on the Longitudinal Small Business Survey (LSBS) data of 29,257 SMEs over the period 2015–2018. Our findings suggest that despite their limited number, as well as firm size and industry sector constraints, women-led SMEs are actively engaged in innovation activities. In addition, our results on the effects of intersecting categories of gender, ethnicity and place on innovation, further emphasise the heterogeneity of women-led SMEs, both with regard to their likelihood to engage in innovation, as well as the place where innovation is most likely to occur. Implications for policy and practice are highlighted.

scholarly journals Why do small businesses seek support for managing people? Implications for theory and policy from an analysis of UK small business survey data

2020 ◽  
pp. 026624262097458
Author(s):  
Valerie Antcliff ◽  
Ben Lupton ◽  
Carol Atkinson
Keyword(s):  
Small Business ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Business Survey Data ◽  
Original Analysis ◽  
Business Survey ◽  
Strategic Advice

This article explores the characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that seek external human resource (HR) support and the circumstances in which they do so, drawing on the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm and recent growth theories. Original analysis of UK Longitudinal Small Business Survey data indicates that few SMEs seek HR support and that they are more likely to seek information than strategic advice. Resource deficiencies were not found to be a driver for seeking HR support, rather this was associated with business changes or challenges. Theoretically, we develop a model that identifies dynamic capabilities for HR support, integrated within an RBV framework. This is novel in integrating the concepts of ‘human process advantage’ and ‘human capital advantage’ from the strategic HR literature with dynamic capabilities theory. We draw out the implications of the findings and the model for future research and policy development.

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