Foundational Skills for Academic Research

Foundational Skills
for Academic Research

Introduction
• The selected peer reviewed journal article is based on the area of
“Leadership and Management of Start-ups, SME and Family
Business”.
• It seeks to demonstrate an understanding of the behaviour of
management and leaders within an organisational context and
especially within the small business and start-up context.

Main Body
• The article is of the year 2012 which depicts that the journal article is
not very current but not too old also.
• It is moderately current and thus can be said to be moderately reliable
and relevant to be studied on the subject of leadership and management
in Start-ups and SME context.
• The article is analysed from various perspectives and domains
afterwards to acknowledge its different aspects.