Scott Fink: Steering Business and Philanthropy in Tampa Bay
This study presents an in-depth analysis of the entrepreneurial journey of an individual, Scott Fink, within the auto sales industry, through a series of interviews.
Category «Small Business»
Small Technology Business (STB) Failure Prevention Strategies Using Potential Failure Modes
Proactive strategies to reduce small business failures improve their growth and sustainability. US Labor statistics show that small businesses faced a considerable decline in their survival and that statistics remained steady for decades, indicating the need for in-depth research to find the gap and address the survival of future businesses.
Thematic Narrative Research to Explore the Traits that Help Shape an Innovator, Entrepreneur, and Philanthropist
This study outlines the use of a phenomenological interviewing process, as defined by Irving Seidman (Seidman, 2019), to explore the traits that contribute to shaping an individual as an innovator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.
The Magic Spark Model: The Future of Transformational Leadership Succession Planning
As management consultants, one of the profound problems we found that executives are facing is that they are wrong. After years of management consulting, there was a huge number of leaders to create an effective and ongoing succession planning model for transformational leadership.
Reward-based Crowdfunding in a Pandemic
In early 2020, many entrepreneurs were ready to turn to alternative financing such as crowdfunding. But were the ‘crowd’ financing campaigns like they used to? They were not; paradoxically, they were helping projects succeed at a never-before-seen rate.
What are the Critical Success Factors for Microbusiness Survival?
Microbusinesses demonstrated resilience through creative ways to survive during the COVID-19 pandemic closures. Seven critical success factors of internal and external influence are found from this research question review.
Introducing a Mobile Health Care Platform in an Underserved Rural Population: Reducing Assimilations Gaps on Adoption and Use via Nudges
This research presents a process for influencing assimilation gaps in healthcare platforms, establishing a methodology that extends the quantifiable practice of traditional assimilation gaps, to multi-level assimilation gaps.
Locating a New Collegiate Entrepreneurship Program, a Framework for a University Campus
Where should a college place its entrepreneurship program? This study of existing programs, both domestic and international, serves to fill knowledge gaps in this field of study.
Why Small Business Owners Have or Do Not Have an Exit Strategy
The purpose of this research is to examine the progressive and regressive factors that affect a small business owner’s decision to implement an exit strategy. An exit strategy can be defined as an entrepreneur’s strategic plan to sell his or her investment in a company he or she has controlling interest in.
Case Study: Businesses Successfully Working in a Rural Economic Development Zone
The researcher provides information about Economic Development Zones to assist readers’ understanding of these programs. Then, business leaders would be able to make informed decisions about the merits of these programs and whether it makes sense for them to relocate their businesses to one of Florida’s Economic Development Zones.