Based on evidence, policies which seek to encourage job creation and innovation via a tax cut should preference large or new businesses, rather than small ones.
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The volatile political debate between the two major parties about the long-term vision for tax has left small businesses in the lurch.
The federal government is still trying to convince senate crossbenchers to pass a company tax cut but tax experts and economists dispute all of its supposed benefits.
One cymbal manufacturer has survived 400 years, but most in-house companies fail to survive through the generations.
The extension of laws on unfair contract terms to cover small businesses, may help farmers take more control of the data their farms generate.
Customers who are angry are more likely to behave unethically, no matter how high the stakes, new research shows.
Research shows SMEs’ engagement in corporate social responsibility depends on the strategic orientation of owners/managers toward CSR.
Would a competent entrepreneur plough on with a decision that started to look a bit dodgy?
What does the shuttering of traditional roadside motels say about America’s relationship with travel and freedom?
If the RBA includes commercial credit cards in new caps on interchange fees, small to medium enterprises might not be able to use them as a source of finance.
While insolvencies are climbing in some of the resources states, other small businesses have found ways to survive.
Wages are stagnating and women have not benefited nearly as much as men from earlier wage increases. And what if small business isn’t the powerhouse we’ve been led to believe? What recent HILDA data has to tell us about gender, income and work.
Small businesses are important employers. But the problem in the company tax debate is that they haven’t created many jobs. Unlike big business.
Budget repair was put off till later, and the net impact of decisions in the budget was small, but it will be easier to defend in the coming election campaign than some other recent efforts.
Business groups point to a GDP stimulus from a company tax cut, but modelling shows small businesses miss out.
Small importers rely on the seller being liable for any import duty - but that situation is being eroded.
Extending individual protections to franchisee owners is supposed to offer protection, but will have the opposite affect.
The informal economy in sub-Saharan Africa is largely marginalised despite its significant contribution to employment and GDP.
India’s former ‘untouchables’ are struggling to make a mark in business – despite some high-profile successes.
After 1994 the microcredit movement helped plunge large numbers of black South Africans into heavy debt and poverty while enriching a few white elites who provided the loans.
Top contributors
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Winthrop Professor, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Marketing and Strategy, The University of Western Australia
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor in Innovation and Associate Dean (Research), The University of Queensland
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Professor of Real Estate and Regeneration, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Hull
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Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Director of Online Programs, AGSM, UNSW Sydney
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Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
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Fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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Visiting Professor of Economics, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia
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Senior Lecturer, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Curtin University
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Professor of Taxation Law, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, UNSW Sydney
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Productivity Growth Program Director, Grattan Institute
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Industry fellow, Graduate School of Business, Deakin University
