- Title
- Government funded business programs : advisory help or hindrance?
- Creator
- Labas, Alan; Courvisanos, Jerry
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/177845
- Identifier
- vital:15324
- Identifier
- ISBN:1030-7923
- Abstract
- This study seeks, through the perspective of Professional Business Advisors (PBAs), to understand how government business programs help and/or hinder the provision of small business advisory services in a regional (non-metropolitan) Australian setting. An emergent theme identifies such programs as significant conduits for regional business knowledge transmission. However, those programs are also perceived by PBAs, who deliver such programs, as imposing substantial constraints for provision of such services. The identified constraining factors include issues of PBAs’ financial viability, ineligibility of businesses to access such programs, capriciousness of programs, and clash between technology utilisation and infrastructure reliability in some non-metropolitan regional areas. Regional Australian PBAs service a heterogeneous collection of businesses across large geographic areas. Yet, the potential for PBAs to support the process of knowledge transmission is severely constrained by current government programs aimed at start-up businesses, but ignoring organisational growth. Such constraints raise concerns that have regional policy implications
- Relation
- Australasian Journal of Regional Studies Vol. 27, no. 1 (2021 2021), p. 88-112
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ Australia New Zealand Regional Science Association International Inc. (ANZRSAI)
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1205 Urban and Regional Planning; 1402 Applied Economics; 1604 Human Geography; Advisory services; Knowledge transmission; Start-ups; Business growth; Regional knowledge isolation
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fee-Offset Scholarship through Federation University Australia
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