Research in Small Business

Increased attention has been attached to the role of the small-business sector and entrepreneurship in the 1980s and the 1990s, at local, national and global levels.  The rationale behind this has been that entrepreneurial activity contributes significantly to economic competitiveness – inextricably linked to performance – as a source of economic growth, employment generation, innovation, and social cohesion.  Hence, small firm and entrepreneurship policy has shifted from the periphery of the socio-economic policymaking framework to central stage, with concomitant emphasis on research in this realm.  

Leicester Business School has two specialised research groups undertaking extensive research in the areas of small business and ethnic minority entrepreneurship. 

• Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship (CREME)

Faculty of Business and Law | Research