IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/ujbmxx/v53y2015i1p37-53.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Identifying and Differentiating Key Employees from Owners and Other Employees in SMEs

Author

Listed:
  • Francine Schlosser

Abstract

This research examines how to identify and differentiate key employees from small and medium‐sized enterprises () owners and other employees and how their characteristics influence firm success factors. Interviews are conducted with 14 matched pairs of entrepreneurs and key employees operating anadian . The study develops a profile whereby the key employee typically (1) corresponds to the key success factors of the , (2) is willing to undertake a moderate amount of risk, and (3) differs in education and experience from the entrepreneur/owner. Although employees are important to firm strategy and culture, this is one of the first to examine key employees in small business.

Suggested Citation

  • Francine Schlosser, 2015. "Identifying and Differentiating Key Employees from Owners and Other Employees in SMEs," Journal of Small Business Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(1), pages 37-53, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ujbmxx:v:53:y:2015:i:1:p:37-53
    DOI: 10.1111/jsbm.12066
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/jsbm.12066
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/jsbm.12066?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Justin R. Hall & Selen Savas-Hall & Eric H. Shaw, 2023. "A deductive approach to a systematic review of entrepreneurship literature," Management Review Quarterly, Springer, vol. 73(3), pages 987-1016, September.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:ujbmxx:v:53:y:2015:i:1:p:37-53. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/ujbm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.