Small business management A South African approach

This book is aimed at the small business sector in South Africa and focuses on its unique problems. In this country, “small business” refers to small, very small and micro-enterprises with 50 or fewer employees, while in Europe and the United States the term applies to firms with a staff of 100 to 500. For this reason, most textbooks on the subject from these countries do not address small businesses in the South African context. In addition, this book recognises that most micro-enterprises in the previously disadvantaged communities of South Africa are family owned and operate within the informal sector.