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Urban home-based businesses: how distinct are the businesses and their owners?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Reuschke, Darja Mason, Colin |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | Micro businesses, sole traders and the self-employed form the backbone of all economies. The numerical significance of micro businesses and increasing levels of self-employment in many countries, particularly since the great financial crisis of 2007/08, have been recognised in recent policy statements and publications (Hatfield 2015). What is less appreciated is how many of these micro businesses operate in, or from, their owner’s home. ‘Acacia Avenue’ and its neighbouring streets are just as significant a location for business activity as an industrial estate – but they are typically invisible to the passer-by, or even the neighbour. The divide between home and work that was established in the factory era has well and truly broken down. Home-based businesses (HBBs) comprise the self-employed and owner managers who work at or from home and do not have business premises outside their home. They may use their home as the base for their business while working mainly or partly outside their home, for example in the case of personal service businesses or consultants. As many of these businesses are unregistered, they are usually not captured in survey data or administrative data. Available figures are therefore estimates that have to be interpreted with caution. For example, Enterprise Nation (2014), a UK home-based business network, estimates that over half of all UK small businesses operate from home. This proportion is slightly lower at 47 per cent of all UK small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK Survey of Smalland Medium-sized Enterprises’ Finances 2004 (Mason and Reuschke 2015). In the 2013 UK Labour Force Survey, 57 per cent of the self-employed in the UK worked from home (Mason and Reuschke 2015). |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.4337/9781784712006.00021 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/9013/Mason_Entrepreneurship_in_cities_14_Chapter11.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784712006.00021 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
