Home-based business: Setting straight the urban myth
Document Type
Journal Article
Publisher
SEAANZ
Faculty
Faculty of Business and Public Management
School
School of Management
RAS ID
2180
Abstract
Home-based businesses make up the largest cohort of Australian businesses yet there has been little dedicated empirical research conducted into this group, as they have either been ignored as a discrete group or subsumed into the generic grouping of small business. A major reason for this lack of research is because home-based businesses have often been assumed to be hobby or artisan types of businesses, operated in an ad hoc part-time basis, mainly by women and often out of the metropolitan area, thus not conforming to mainstream business. The inference which can be made from these assumptions is that home-based business are not 'legitimate' or real businesses. The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a recent study into home-based businesses, which refute most of the assumptions and provide evidence that most home-based businesses are legitimate business operations. In addition home-based businesses are shown to be generators of real employment and that they also make a significant economic and social contribution to their local community.
DOI
10.5172/ser.11.2.35
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Comments
Walker, E. A. (2003). Home-based business: Setting straight the urban myth. Small Enterprise Research, 11(2), 35-48. Available here.