Business strategies for entrepreneurial small firms.

Anderson, Alistair R.; Atkins, Martin H.

Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of the nature of business strategies in entrepreneurial small firms. It examines a number of existing models of strategic planning and suggests that they cannot adequately cope with environmental uncertainty. Developing the idea that effective strategy formation is processual in a stochastic environment, the paper proposes four possible "meta" strategies entrepreneurial firms might use to cope with uncertainty. These stress the notion of 'becoming' as a direction rather than a series of staged events.

Citation

ANDERSON, A.R. and ATKINS, M.H. 2001. Business strategies for entrepreneurial small firms. Strategic change [online], 10(6), pages 311-324. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.554

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 30, 2001
• Online Publication Date: Sep 30, 2001
• Publication Date: Sep 30, 2001
• Deposit Date: Nov 26, 2014
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 26, 2014
• Journal: Strategic change
• Print ISSN: 1086-1718
• Electronic ISSN: 1099-1697
• Publisher: Wiley
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 311-324
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/jsc.554
• Public URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10059/1090
• Contract Date: Nov 26, 2014