Research
Books
2008 Small Business and Entrepreneurship (Editor with Candida Brush) (5 Volumes) Sage, London.
2003 Intellectual Property and Innovation Management in Small Firms (editor) Routledge, London.
2001 Researching The Small Enterprise (with Curran, J) Sage, London.
1998 The Quality Business (with North, J and Curran, J) Routledge, London.
1996 Small Firms: Contributions to Economic Regeneration (ed. with Jennings, P) Paul Chapman, London.
1994 Small Firms and Local Economic Networks: The Death of the Local Economy? (with Curran, J), Paul Chapman, London.
Recent Chapters in Books
2008 'Small firms' strategic stickiness and the impact of state interventions' in Barrett, R and Mayson, S, (eds) International Handbook of Entrepreneurship and HRM, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. (with Smallbone, D)
2008 'Group Interviews and Focus Groups' entry for Dictionary on Management Research (editor Richard Thorpe) Sage Publications, London, California and New Dehli.
2008 (with Brush, C) Editors Introduction: 'Small Business and Entrepreneurship: Convergence or Divergence?' in Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Major Work 5 Volumes, Sage Publications, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi. (with Candida Brush, Babson College USA). June • 2248 pages Cloth ISBN 978-1-4129-3437-4. ppxxvii-Lxvi
Journal Articles
2009 Blackburn R and Kovalainen, A 'Researching Small Firms and Entrepreneurship: Past, present and future' International Journal of Management Reviews
2008 Blackburn, Robert A. and Smallbone, David Researching small firms and entrepreneurship in the UK: developments and distinctiveness. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 32(2), pp. 267-288.
2007 Revell, Andrea and Blackburn, Robert The business case for sustainability? An examination of small firms in the UK's construction and restaurant sectors. Business Strategy and the Environment, 16(6), pp. 404-420.
2006 'Fix or Fixation? The contributions and limitations of entrepreneurship and small firms to combating social exclusion' (with Ram, M), Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 18, 1, January, 73-89.
2004 'Employment Rights in Small Firms: Some New Evidence, Explanations and Implications', (with Hart, M), Industrial Law Journal, 32, 1, March, 60-67.
2002 'Learning the Hard Way: the lessons of owner-managers who have closed their businesses', (with Stokes, D), Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 9, No. 3, 17-27.
2001 'Older People and the Enterprise Society; Age and Self-Employment Propensities' (with Curran, J) Work, Employment and Society', Vol. 15, No. 4, 889-902.
2001 'The UK small business research community and its publication channels: Perceptions and ratings' (with Perren, L and Berry, A) Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, Vol. 8, 1, 76-90.
2000 'Panacea or White Elephant? A Critical Examination of the proposed New Small Business Service and Response to the DTI Consultancy Paper' (with Curran, J), Regional Studies, Policy Review Section, Vol 34, 2, 181-189.
1999 'Management Training for SMEs: A comparative Study of Three European Regions' (with Kitching, J) Environment and Planning C, Government and Policy, Vol 17, 621-635.
1999 'Intellectual Property Management in the Small and Medium Sized Enterprise', (with Kitching, J) Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 5, 4, 327-336.
1996 'Local Authority Privatisation and Markets for Small Businesses', (with Abbott, B and Curran, J) Local Government Studies, 22, 3, 72-89.
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