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Small Business Economics
1992 - 2013
Edited by Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch
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Volume 40, issue 3 , 2013
Reassessing the relationships between private equity investors and their portfolio companies pp. 479-492
Sophie Manigart and Mike Wright
The association between venture capitalists’ selection and value adding behavior: evidence from early stage high tech venture capitalists pp. 493-509
Mirjam Knockaert and Tom Vanacker
Why do contracts differ between venture capital types? pp. 511-525
Julia Hirsch and Uwe Walz
Venture capital investor type and the growth mode of new technology-based firms pp. 527-552
Fabio Bertoni , Massimo Colombo and Luca Grilli
The role of domestic and cross-border venture capital investors in the growth of portfolio companies pp. 553-573
David Devigne , Tom Vanacker , Sophie Manigart and Ine Paeleman
Learning from own and others’ previous experience: the contribution of the venture capital firm to the likelihood of a portfolio company’s trade sale pp. 575-590
Bart Clarysse , Annelies Bobelyn and Itxaso Palacio Aguirre
Private equity and entrepreneurial management in management buy-outs pp. 591-605
Hans Bruining , Ernst Verwaal and Mike Wright
The different roles played by venture capital and private equity investors on the investment activity of their portfolio firms pp. 607-633
Fabio Bertoni , María Ferrer and José Martí
Conflicts between entrepreneurs and investors: the impact of perceived unethical behavior pp. 635-649
Veroniek Collewaert and Yves Fassin
Determinants of job satisfaction: a European comparison of self-employed and paid employees pp. 651-670
Jose Maria Millan , Jolanda Hessels , Roy Thurik and Rafael Aguado
Regional determinants of ICT new firm formation pp. 671-686
Frank Lasch , Frank Robert and Frédéric Roy
SBE special issue introduction pp. 687-691
Jill Kickul , Siri Ann Terjesen and Rachida Justo
Designing a global standardized methodology for measuring social entrepreneurship activity: the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor social entrepreneurship study pp. 693-714
Jan Lepoutre , Rachida Justo , Siri Ann Terjesen and Niels Bosma
Business models for people, planet (& profits): exploring the phenomena of social business, a market-based approach to social value creation pp. 715-737
Fiona Wilson and James Post
Nascent green-technology ventures: a study assessing the role of partnership diversity in firm success pp. 739-759
Moriah Meyskens and Alan Carsrud
Entrepreneurial processes in social contexts: how are they different, if at all? pp. 761-783
G. Lumpkin , Todd Moss , David Gras , Shoko Kato and Alejandro Amezcua
The social value of productive entrepreneurship pp. 785-796
Zoltan Acs , Mary Boardman and Connie McNeely
Volume 40, issue 2 , 2013
Coase on entrepreneurship pp. 173-184
Siri Ann Terjesen and Ning Wang
An absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship pp. 185-197
Haifeng Qian and Zoltan Acs
Leveraging entrepreneurship through private investments: does gender matter? pp. 199-210
Dora Gicheva and Albert N. Link
Creating good public policy to support high-growth firms pp. 211-225
Colin Mason and Ross Brown
Completing the technology transfer process: M&As of science-based IPOs pp. 227-248
Michele Meoli , Stefano Paleari and Silvio Vismara
The influence of age on SMEs’ growth determinants: empirical evidence pp. 249-272
Paulo Nunes , Marco Gonçalves and Zélia Serrasqueiro
Disaggregating entrepreneurial orientation: the non-linear impact of innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking on SME performance pp. 273-291
Patrick Kreiser , Louis Marino , Donald Kuratko and K. Weaver
Dismissal protection and small firms’ hirings: evidence from a policy reform pp. 293-307
Stefan Josef Bauernschuster
Entrepreneurial skills and workers’ wages in small firms pp. 309-323
Rui Baptista , Francisco Lima and Miguel Preto
Health insurance provision and labor contracts for small firms pp. 325-334
Chu-Shiu Li , Chwen-Chi Liu , Yu-Chen Kuo and Chen-Sheng Yang
Firm size and efficiency in the German mechanical engineering industry pp. 335-350
Alexander Schiersch
How did the notional interest deduction affect Belgian SMEs’ capital structure? pp. 351-373
Geert Campenhout and Tom Caneghem
The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees pp. 375-396
Mirjam van Praag , Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Justin van der Sluis
Vertical integration and efficiency: an application to the Italian machine tool industry pp. 397-416
Fabio Pieri and Enrico Zaninotto
Failing firms and successful entrepreneurs: serial entrepreneurship as a temporal portfolio pp. 417-434
Saras Sarasvathy , Anil Menon and Graciela Kuechle
The interplay of human and social capital in shaping entrepreneurial performance: the case of Vietnam pp. 435-458
Enrico Santarelli and Hien Tran
School competition and students’ entrepreneurial intentions: international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling pp. 459-478
Oliver Falck and Ludger Woessmann
Volume 40, issue 1 , 2013
From laboratory to market: on the propensity of young inventors to form a new business pp. 1-7
Albert N. Link and Dianne Welsh
Employment and SMEs during crises pp. 9-25
Celeste Varum and Vera Catarina Rocha
What’s so entrepreneurial about intrapreneurs? pp. 27-39
Aloña Martiarena
Trends in family business research pp. 41-57
Carlos Benavides-Velasco , Cristina Quintana-García and Vanesa Guzmán-Parra
Governance mechanisms, investment opportunity set and SMEs cash holdings pp. 59-72
Yacine Belghitar and James Khan
African Americans’ pursuit of self-employment pp. 73-86
Magnus Lofstrom and Timothy M. Bates
Microcredit: an answer to the gender problem in funding? pp. 87-100
Sophie Brana
The trade credit channel revisited: evidence from micro data of Japanese small firms pp. 101-118
Kazuo Ogawa , Elmer Sterken and Ichiro Tokutsu
Entrepreneurial opportunities in peripheral versus core regions in Chile pp. 119-139
José Ernesto Amorós Espinosa , Christian Felzensztein and Eli Gimmon
Tax progressivity and self-employment: evidence from Canadian provinces pp. 141-153
Ergete Ferede
The best and the brightest or the least successful? Self-employment entry among male wage-earners in Sweden pp. 155-172
Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö
Volume 39, issue 4 , 2012
Patents, knowledge spillovers, and entrepreneurship pp. 801-817
Zoltan J. Acs and Mark Walter Johan Louis Sanders
Self-employment: the role of intellectual property right laws pp. 819-833
Andrew Emmet Burke and Stuart Fraser
Social capital of venture capitalists and start-up funding pp. 835-851
Oliver Alexy , Joern H. Block , Philipp Sandner and Anne L.J. ter Wal
Panel studies of new venture creation: a methods-focused review and suggestions for future research pp. 853-876
Per Davidsson and Scott Gordon
Knowledge context and entrepreneurial intentions among students pp. 877-895
Dirk Christian Dohse and Sascha Walter
The strength of science and technology drivers for SME innovation pp. 897-907
Mario Parrilli and Aitziber Elola
Bank market structure and entrepreneurship pp. 909-920
Tammy Rogers
Picking the winner? Empirical evidence on the targeting of R&D subsidies to start-ups pp. 921-936
Uwe Cantner and Sarah Kösters
Do firms’ growth rates depend on firm size? pp. 937-947
Jan Bentzen , Erik Madsen and Valdemar Smith
Firm exit after distress: differentiating between bankruptcy, voluntary liquidation and M&A pp. 949-975
Sofie Balcaen , Sophie Manigart , Jozefien Buyze and Hubert Ooghe
On the adjustment speed of SMEs to their optimal capital structure pp. 977-996
Cristina Aybar-Arias , Alejandro Casino-Martínez and José López-Gracia
The political and legal determinants of venture capital investments around the world pp. 997-1016
Stefano Bonini and Senem Alkan
Generalising Gibrat: using Chinese evidence founded on fieldwork pp. 1017-1028
Gavin Clydesdale Reid and Zhibin Xu
What makes a high-growth firm? A dynamic probit analysis using Spanish firm-level data pp. 1029-1041
Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Sergio Puente
Turbulence underneath the big calm? The micro-evidence behind Italian productivity dynamics pp. 1043-1067
Giovanni Dosi , Marco Grazzi , Chiara Tomasi and Alessandro Zeli
Volume 39, issue 3 , 2012
Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness: an introduction to the special issue pp. 531-537
David Audretsch and Iñaki Peña-Legazkue
Creative industries, new business formation, and regional economic growth pp. 539-560
Roberta Piergiovanni , Martin Carree and Enrico Santarelli
Innovation, entrepreneurial activity and competitiveness at a sub-national level pp. 561-574
José González-Pernía , Iñaki Peña-Legazkue and Ferran Vendrell-Herrero
Start-ups as drivers of market mobility: an analysis at the region–sector level for The Netherlands pp. 575-585
Sierdjan Koster , André van Stel and Mickey Folkeringa
Regional competitiveness, university spillovers, and entrepreneurial activity pp. 587-601
David Audretsch , Marcel Hülsbeck and Erik E. Lehmann
Innovative opportunity pursuit, human capital and business ownership experience in an emerging region: evidence from Ghana pp. 603-625
Paul Robson , Charles Akuetteh , Paul Westhead and Mike Wright
The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development pp. 627-643
Peter Zwan , Ingrid Verheul and Roy Thurik
(Optimal) spatial aggregation in the determinants of industrial location pp. 645-658
Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod and Miguel Manjón-Antolín
Nascent entrepreneurship panel studies: progress and challenges pp. 659-665
William Gartner and Kelly Shaver
Expectancy theory and nascent entrepreneurship pp. 667-684
Maija Renko , K. Kroeck and Amanda Bullough
The nascent entrepreneurship hub: goals, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and start-up outcomes pp. 685-701
Diana Hechavarria , Maija Renko and Charles Matthews
The effects of perceptions of risk, environmental uncertainty, and growth aspirations on new venture creation success pp. 703-712
William Gartner and Jianwen Liao
Development and validation of a locus of control scale for the entrepreneurship domain pp. 713-726
Leon Schjoedt and Kelly Shaver
Birds of a feather get lost together: new venture team composition and performance pp. 727-743
Paul Steffens , Siri Ann Terjesen and Per Davidsson
Financing the emerging firm pp. 745-761
William Gartner , Casey Frid and John Alexander
Properties of emerging organizations: empirical evidence from Norway pp. 763-781
Tatiana Manolova , Linda Edelman , Candida Brush and Beate Rotefoss
A tale of two exits: nascent entrepreneur learning activities and disengagement from start-up pp. 783-799
Juita-Elena Yusuf
Volume 39, issue 2 , 2012
Employment growth from the Small Business Innovation Research program pp. 265-287
Albert N. Link and John Troy Scott
Growth and entrepreneurship pp. 289-300
Zoltan J. Acs , David Audretsch , Pontus Brodde Braunerhjelm and Bo Carlsson
Organisation structure and innovation performance in different environments pp. 301-317
Andy Cosh , Xiaolan Fu and Alan Hughes
Affirmative action programs and business ownership among minorities and women pp. 319-339
Robert W. Fairlie and Justin Marion
Quantity and quality of information and SME financial structure pp. 341-358
Tom Caneghem and Geert Campenhout
Entrepreneurship in India: the question of occupational transition pp. 359-382
Erik Monsen , Prashanth Mahagaonkar and Christian Dienes
Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India pp. 383-400
Alex Coad and Jaganaddha Tamvada
Bargaining power and information in SME lending pp. 401-417
Jens Grunert and Lars Norden
Determinants of R&D cooperation in small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 419-436
Hyunbae Chun and Sung-Bae Mun
How SMEs exploit their intellectual property assets: evidence from survey data pp. 437-452
Gaetan de Rassenfosse
Do firms learn by exporting or learn to export? Evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 453-472
Kent Eliasson , Pär Hansson and Markus Lindvert
Part-time entrepreneurship and financial constraints: evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics pp. 473-493
Kameliia Petrova
Founders’ human capital and the performance of UK new technology based firms pp. 495-515
Panagiotis Ganotakis
How does working capital management affect the profitability of Spanish SMEs? pp. 517-529
Sonia Baños-Caballero , Pedro García-Teruel and Pedro Martínez-Solano
Volume 39, issue 1 , 2012
The experience of the founder and self-employment duration: a comparative advantage approach pp. 1-17
Dirk Oberschachtsiek
Quantile estimates of the impact of R&D intensity on firm performance pp. 19-37
Martin Falk
Identity and entrepreneurship: do school peers shape entrepreneurial intentions? pp. 39-59
Oliver Falck , Stephan Heblich and Elke Luedemann
The impact of firm entry regulation on long-living entrants pp. 61-76
Susanne Prantl
Taxation and entrepreneurship in a welfare state pp. 77-97
Mikael Stenkula
The productivity payoff of information technology in multimarket SMEs pp. 99-117
Francesco Domenico Sandulli , José Fernández-Menéndez , Antonio Rodríguez-Duarte and José López-Sánchez
Size matters: entrepreneurial entry and government pp. 119-139
Ruta Aidis , Saul Estrin and Tomasz Marek Mickiewicz
Supporter networks and network growth: a contingency model of organizational emergence pp. 141-159
Scott Newbert and Erno Tornikoski
Trustworthiness and interest rates: an empirical study of Italian SMEs pp. 161-177
Carole Howorth and Andrea Moro
Financing technology-based small firms in Europe: what do we know? pp. 179-205
Valérie Revest and Sandro Sapio
Consolidation by merger: the UK beer market pp. 207-229
Silviano Esteve-Pérez
The geographic determinants of bankruptcy: evidence from Switzerland pp. 231-251
Stefan Buehler , Christian Kaiser and Franz Jaeger
The economic impact of the Canada small business financing program pp. 253-264
Vincent Chandler