Consultancy for Small Businesses
The concept - training the consultants
Consultancy for Small Businesses is the result of a six year experiment to provide an economic on-the-spot advisory service to small businesses in developing countries. It provides some solutions to the perennial problems of small-scale entrepreneurs.
Published: 1977
Pages: 264
eBook: 9781780441870
Paperback: 9780903031424
Acknowledgements | |||
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Introduction | |||
Part I The Concept | |||
Chapter 1 Why help small enterprises | |||
Chapter 2 Small businesses and their problems | |||
Chapter 3 How can we improve small business management? | |||
Chapter 4 How to find out what small businesses need | |||
Chapter 5 Persuading people to change | |||
Chapter 6 Who is to provide the service? | |||
Chapter 7 How to select consultant trainees | |||
Chapter 8 The training period | |||
Chapter 9 Field operation and supervision | |||
Chapter 10 Administration | |||
Chapter 11 Finance: costs and evaluation of the service | |||
Chapter 12 Further developments | |||
Summary | |||
Part II Consultant's Training Course | |||
Introduction | |||
Course outline and session summary |
Malcolm Harper
Malcolm Harper taught at Cranfield School of Management until 1995, and since then has worked mainly in India. He has published on enterprise development and microfinance. He was Chairman of Basix Finance from 1996 until 2006, and is Chairman of M-CRIL, the microfinance credit rating agency.
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