This book exposes how the Small Business Administration (SBA) and the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), using erroneous data, have developed and perpetuated the belief that "small business creates all the new jobs". It shows further that, since the early 1990s, this belief has become a mantra for allowing the SBA and NBIF to lobby effectively for preferential treatment such as low-interest loans and exemption from mandated employee benefits and worker safety regulations.

Report comprising a statistical analysis of the role of enterprise in employment creation and destruction in the USA for the period from 1969 to 1976 - analyses factors relating to plant shutdown, location of industry, size of enterprise, previous history as to expansion or contraction, etc. According to regional level area, and concludes that small firms hold the key to job generation. References and statistical tables.

Statistics based on information from the employment records of individual establishments in Western Germany between 1977 and 1988.

Around the world there is increasing interest in issues of small business and entrepreneurship. This book encapsulates the knowledge that can be gained from the most significant research contributions in this field. In addition it provides a historical-doctrinal review of the development of entrepreneurship and small business research, and presents some of the key pioneers that have shaped the research field.