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  349.     <h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Contemplating Knudsen's Baseline: Where Small is not so Beautiful</h1>
  350.     <p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Jones, Colin D.</span> (2005) <xhtml:em>Contemplating Knudsen's Baseline: Where Small is not so Beautiful.</xhtml:em> Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 18 (3). pp. 273-288. ISSN 0827-6331</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_838' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/833/1/Jones.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_838' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_838"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/833/thumbnails/1/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/833/1/Jones.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />74Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://www.ccsbe.org/jsbe/index.htm">http://www.ccsbe.org/jsbe/index.htm</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Does the Internet's World Wide Web (the web) represent an opportunity or threat to the small firms of the world? In line with recent calls for entrepreneurship research to adopt a more evolutionary approach, this article considers the context, process, and possible outcomes of small place-based firms operating in a web-impacted environment. Despite initial optimism that the web would provide a level-playing field for firms of all sizes, little evidence exist to support such a notion. When the learning abilities deemed necessary to exploit the web are considered, it would seem that only the most entrepreneurial of small firms would likely adapt to web-impacted environments. It is concluded that the present rate of web-based change represents a unique and valuable research opportunity for entrepreneurship researchers.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Small Firms, World Wide Web, Evolutionary Theories</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/350209.html">350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services &gt; 350200 Business and Management &gt; 350209 Small Business Management</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/340199.html">340000 Economics &gt; 340100 Economic Theory &gt; 340199 Economic Theory not elsewhere classified</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/350211.html">350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services &gt; 350200 Business and Management &gt; 350211 Innovation and Technology Management</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/350213.html">350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services &gt; 350200 Business and Management &gt; 350213 Electronic Commerce</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">833</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Mr Colin D Jones</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">15 Mar 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=833;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&amp;eprintid=833">item control page</a></p>
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