Abstract
FOR the British reader, Mr. A. D. H. Kaplan's study serves two purposes. It affords an interesting descriptive review of the scope and activities of small business ventures in the United States ; and it offers an analysis of certain aspects of the running of the smaller enterprises. The main disappointment in Great Britain will be in the fact that the author has not included a review of management practices and methods, nor has he given anything but the smaller emphasis to the problems of the manufacturer as against the trader. British interest, as it happens to-day, is the other way. The author's aim is summarized in the two questions he poses in the opening paragraphs : "What is the role of small business in the economy? How can small business be helped to contribute its full share to post-war employment and prosperity?"
Small Business
Its Place and Problems. By A. D. H. Kaplan. (Committee for Economic Development, Research Study.) Pp. xiv +281. (New York and London : McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1948.) 19s. 6d.
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BRECH, E. Small Business. Nature 164, 334–335 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164334a0
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