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Strategies to Sustain Small Businesses Beyond 5 Years.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Strategies to Sustain Small Businesses Beyond 5 Years./
Author:	Wani, Kayaso C.
Description:	1 online resource (264 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-08A(E).
Subject:	Business administration. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9780355683356

Strategies to Sustain Small Businesses Beyond 5 Years.
Wani, Kayaso C.

Strategies to Sustain Small Businesses Beyond 5 Years. - 1 online resource (264 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (D.B.A.)--Walden University, 2018.

Includes bibliographical references

According to the U.S. Small Business Association, the failure rates for small businesses in 2014 were as high as 50% to 80% within the first 5 years of establishment. The purpose for this multiple case study was to explore the strategies that small business owners have used to sustain their businesses beyond 5 years. Guided by entrepreneurship theory as the conceptual framework, and a purposive sampling method, this qualitative case study used semistructured interviews with 3 successful, small, ethnic grocery business owners in Anchorage, AK to better understand small business strategies for survival. Member checking and triangulation with field notes, interview data, business websites, customer comments, and government documents helped ensure theoretical saturation and trustworthiness of interpretations. Using pre-coded themes for the data analysis, the 8 themes from this study were entrepreneur characteristics, education and management skills, financial planning, marketing strategies and competitive advantages, social networks and human relationships, technology and innovation, government supports and social responsibility, and motivational influence. Two key results indicated the strategies needed for small business owners were entrepreneur management skills and government support for small businesses. These findings may influence positive social change by improving small business owner competence and sustainability, rising higher business incomes, providing a better quality of life to employees and their communities welfare benefiting the entire U.S. economy.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9780355683356Subjects--Topical Terms:

1148568
Business administration.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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