The European Scene of Small Business Research

Abstract

Dietmar Roessl is assiatant professor of mangment at thedepartment of small business mangament, vienna universitty of economics and businesss administration, Austria. His research interstt include interfirm co-operation and metthodlgical sses this paper aims to analyse the culture and structure fo research in the field of small and medium sized enterprise, which is seen as a precondition for a more intensive study of the individual results of research is confirmed with a variety of methodlogical approaches, research designs and research mangment practice. This variety in the purpose of research,themethod anad presentation of the result makes it more difficult, oon the one hand, to aggregate numerious individuals results to consistent heuristic frames of referewnce or ttheroris and on otehr otehr hand, to communicate with thescietific communiity. As a startng point for ssystematic investigation of scieinctif actvities, the paepr deals with several aspects of the researach of sciencein a more descriptive sense. by means of empiricala data gathered in Europe on the contents.the methds andthe organsaton of research, light should be thrown on some aspects of the culture and structure of research witthin the small business scene.