A. Analysis
With close reference to a small business of your choice, submit a written analysis highlighting the relationship of theory to practice. This might refer to your own working environment, or to one in which you have worked. Your work should address the following:
- An analysis of your research process and experience (10%). Set out here how you came to identify and approach the owner manager, and your research methodology.
- Then, more broadly, an exploration of the business behaviour of the people concerned and how it meets or doesn’t meet particular evidence, theories and frameworks in the Small Business Management literature. You must demonstrate the ability to analyse your evidence critically, making links to theory. Please make sure that any strong statements are supported by evidence, example and reference. Quotation from your interview(s) should be referenced in the normal way.
Word limit is 3,000 words.
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