Rodney C. Runyan

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take a qualitative approach to consider how small businesses respond to and recover from a large disaster, by interviewing stakeholders in five different communities in the Gulf Coast of the United States.

TL;DR: This paper examined the constructs of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) versus small business orientation (SBO), their impact on small business performance, and whether these effects are moderated by longevity, and found that the structural paths connecting EO and SBO to performance are not the same in these groups: for the younger group, EO significantly predicts performance while for the older group, only SBO significantly predicted performance.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the hospitality marketing research published in four top hospitality journals from 2008 to 2010 for the purposes of identifying significant trends and gaps in the literature is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors looked at the resources utilized by small business owners within downtown business districts and found that women actually reported higher levels of entrepreneurial orientation and social capital, and there were no differences in their abilities to utilize these two resources in achieving firm performance.

TL;DR: An extensive review of 20+ years of research on small, independent retailers is presented, addressing the lack of construct development and the dearth of theoretical underpinning to much of the research.