When people are using different ™ of the businessâ € ~, â € of the little phrase, referring to a common set of definitions? How, how many employees are listed in payroll? O, the number of the € ™ s of itâ years? A review of literature on 23 cards, which were published in 1958 – 2002, try to make the light on this issue. The review revealed a contradiction, both in the description that the definition of small business. The variety of definition used in these cards unable to fix a provision pleasant for the definition of small business. Mayer and Goldstein (1961) defines small business as an employer of less then 200 employees. Potts (1977) has adjusted the barrier about 20 employees over eight years that the minimum that trade is active. Robinson (1982) defines as constant small if the number of employees is less then 50, of annual sales is below three one million U.S. dollars and € ™ s of itâ works as single property. Covin and Slevin (1989) define small business according to the number of employees – more then five or less then 500, as a minimum of five years that trade is active. Rue and Ibrahim (1998) defines small business as an employer of more then 15 employees. Perry (2001) has set an upper limit of 500 employees as only sign so that the trade is about as small. The revision makes it clear that the ambiguity is over time stable. The lack of uniform definition in the sixtieth continued during the decades in the millennium. The industries designated by different scholars have a common, the fire was on industries with the level down to make the average economic development such as manufacturing, trade (retail, wholesale) and service. The scholars have drawn the problematicalness regarding the contradiction of the definition of small business for enough time, Golde (1964) examining small employers to manufacture with less then 500 employees, argue that € ™ s of a arbitrarily itâ definition that can adequately firms manufacture of the feet not. Welsh and White (1981) argues that small business tends to regroup in certain industries such as wholesalers, retailers, service and manufacture "of the â €. Peterson and others, (1986) notes that the most common definition is that used by the management of small enterprises (SBA), in part, the condition of definition that small business can be described as a whether its properties that operation conducted independent and € ™ s itâ not the dominant industry that is working inside. D 'Amboise and Muldowney (1988) write about the complexity of the definition of small business, which may be a result of the variety and different types of companies that sentence trying to understand. Pickle and Abrahamson (1990) addressed the question, what is a small enterprise? There, the answer is that some consider small business as such if the € ™ s of itâ employs certain number of employees are also support that small business is one that restricts its operation to the local market and the trade classify as a small depending on the nature of the € ™ s of itâ (for example, pharmacy, storage of clothing, jewelry local deposit).
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