Factors Resulting in Successes and Failures for Small Businesses in the Small Business Institute Program at Syracuse University
During the 1970s the U.S. Congress inaugurated a program of managerial assistance to meld the talents and needs of local small-business communities, nearby educational institutions of higher business learning, and the U.S. Small Business Administration. This program was known as the Small Business Institute. The authors analyzed the experience of Syracuse University with the program from 1973 to 1997 and found that some problems faced by small businesses persisted over time, although there were significant shifts in other problems as the economic environment changed. We also found that the chances for survival of our client firms varied by industry, with manufacturing, retailing, and professional and nonprofessional service firms most likely to survive.
The economic impact of small business development center counseling activities in the United States: 1990–1991
Abstract This article reports the results of the first national study of the economic impact of Small Business Development Center (SBDC) counseling activities. The study analyzed the performance improvements of long-term clients who indicated that the SBCD's assistance was beneficial. Results suggest that the satisfied established business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs who received counseling in 1990 generated over $3.7 billion in new sales and almost 65,000 new jobs in 1991. These performance improvements generated approximately $2.61 in incremental tax revenues for every dollar expended on the entire SBDC program in the US.
Persistence and Change in Minkowski Spacetime
There are famously two main metaphysics of persistence, namely three and four-dimensionalism. Both yield a particular solution to the so called puzzle of change. I argue that typical three-dimensionalist solutions to the puzzle face insurmountable difficulties even in the simplest relativistic setting, that of Minkowski spacetime