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Loan Guarantee Schemes in the UK: The Natural Experiment of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee and the 5 Year Rule (2017)
Journal Article
Cowling, M., Robson, P., Stone, I., & Allinson, G. (2018). Loan Guarantee Schemes in the UK: The Natural Experiment of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee and the 5 Year Rule. Applied Economics, 50(20), 2210-2218. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2017.1392004

Loan guarantee schemes have existed since 1953 (in the US) and are widely used throughout the world to provide financial support to smaller firms by guaranteeing loans from commercial banks. The UK government has been an active supporter of loan guar... Read More about Loan Guarantee Schemes in the UK: The Natural Experiment of the Enterprise Finance Guarantee and the 5 Year Rule.

The Impact of Personal Attitudes on the Growth Ambitions of Small Business Owners (2017)
Journal Article
Braidford, P., Drummond, I., & Stone, I. (2017). The Impact of Personal Attitudes on the Growth Ambitions of Small Business Owners. Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 24(4), 850-862. https://doi.org/10.1108/jsbed-02-2017-0035

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical evidence in support of widespread calls for new approaches to understanding small business growth, by exploring the use of non-positivist methods (e.g. critical realism) to analyse how owne... Read More about The Impact of Personal Attitudes on the Growth Ambitions of Small Business Owners.