Small Business Critical Success Factors and the Legal Form of the Firm

Authors

Sudhir K. Chawla, Angelo State University
Mary F. Hazeldine, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow
Robert E. Jackson, Georgia Southern UniversityFollow
Richard J. Lawrence, Angelo State University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-1-2007

Publication Title

Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship

ISSN

1042-6337

Abstract

This study supports the concept that the legal form of small businesses may be a valuable addition to the commonly used measures of age and size as estimators of a firm's stage in its life cycle (the measure of maturity of a small business). A survey of 400 small business owners drawn from a mid-sized Texas city measured owners' perceptions of critical success factors relevant to them. Suggestions for future research are provided for additional confirmation of the incorporation step milestone in a life cycle as a determinant of a firm's perceptions of critical success factors.

Recommended Citation

Chawla, Sudhir K., Mary F. Hazeldine, Robert E. Jackson, Richard J. Lawrence. 2007. "Small Business Critical Success Factors and the Legal Form of the Firm." Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, 19 (2). source: https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1P3-1382133441/small-business-critical-success-factors-and-the-legal
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