UK SME Growth factors and determinants

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This questionnaire will be used to acquire data for a final year Economics research project looking to gather information about the preferences of Growth Processes (decisions made within the business that have an impact on growth), the data gathered will be used to gain insight on what UK SME preferences are and how they affect firm growth.

This questionnaire will not ask for specific financial information, however there will be questions related to (possibly) sensitive areas such as Turnover.

Completion of the questionnaire indicates consent for the data you provide to be used and submitted anonymously in the aforementioned research project although participants are under no obligation to submit any answers and are able to opt out at any point before or after submission of the questionnaire.

*Please note: if your firm has more than 250 employees it is considered a large firm and is not eligible to partake in this survey.

Please contact me at r.atkin3@unimail.derby.ac.uk if you require your answers to be removed or have any queries.

What industry does the SME occupy? *

How many years has the SME been active? *

0-1

1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

20+

Prefer not to say

How many employee's does the SME currently have? *

0-10

11-25

26-50

51-100

101-200

201-250

Prefer not to say

What was the Turnover for the last available year? *

£0-£1000

£1001-£5000

£5000-£10,000

£10,001-£25,000

£25,001-£50,000

£50,000-£100,000

£100,001-£150,000

£150,001-£250,000

£250,000-£500,000

£500,000+

Prefer not to say

Of the listed indicators which do you find the most important for your business to measure firm growth? *

Asset growth rate

Net income growth rate

Turnover growth rate

Prefer not to say

Quality of Product

Creating Employment

Additional locations/branches of the firm

Other:

Of the listed determinants which do you find to have the most impact on firm growth? *

Spending on Assets

Number of Employees

Spending on Research and Development

A focus on Environmental, Social and corporate governance

A focus on debt-equity ratio

Prefer not to say

Other:

Of the listed determinants which have you previously implemented with the aim of firm growth? *

Number of Employees

Spending on Assets

Spending on Research and Development

Environmental, Social and corporate governance

Improving debt-equity ratio

Spending on marketing (traditional e.g advertisement, business fairs etc.)

Spending on Contemporary Marketing (e.g online presence, online content/advertisements)

Networking/Events

Product differentiation

Other:

Required

Have you found that growth strategies have changed as the SME has grown in size? *

Yes

If yes to the question above, how have you found that strategies have changed?

Has Brexit affected the operations of your business *

Yes

If yes to the question above, how have you found that the operations are affected? If not why has it not been affected? *

Completion of the questionnaire indicates consent for the data you provide to be used anonymously in the aforementioned research project although participants are under no obligation to submit any answers and are able to opt out at any point before or after submission of the questionnaire. Please contact me at r.atkin3@unimail.derby.ac.uk if you require your answers to be removed or have any queries.

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