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Volume 40, issue 3, 2013

Reassessing the relationships between private equity investors and their portfolio companies pp. 479-492 Downloads
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 Downloads
Mirjam Knockaert and Tom Vanacker
Why do contracts differ between venture capital types? pp. 511-525 Downloads
Julia Hirsch and Uwe Walz
Venture capital investor type and the growth mode of new technology-based firms pp. 527-552 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Bart Clarysse, Annelies Bobelyn and Itxaso Palacio Aguirre
Private equity and entrepreneurial management in management buy-outs pp. 591-605 Downloads
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 Downloads
Fabio Bertoni, María Ferrer and José Martí
Conflicts between entrepreneurs and investors: the impact of perceived unethical behavior pp. 635-649 Downloads
Veroniek Collewaert and Yves Fassin
Determinants of job satisfaction: a European comparison of self-employed and paid employees pp. 651-670 Downloads
Jose Maria Millan, Jolanda Hessels, Roy Thurik and Rafael Aguado
Regional determinants of ICT new firm formation pp. 671-686 Downloads
Frank Lasch, Frank Robert and Frédéric Roy
SBE special issue introduction pp. 687-691 Downloads
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 Downloads
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 Downloads
Fiona Wilson and James Post
Nascent green-technology ventures: a study assessing the role of partnership diversity in firm success pp. 739-759 Downloads
Moriah Meyskens and Alan Carsrud
Entrepreneurial processes in social contexts: how are they different, if at all? pp. 761-783 Downloads
G. Lumpkin, Todd Moss, David Gras, Shoko Kato and Alejandro Amezcua
The social value of productive entrepreneurship pp. 785-796 Downloads
Zoltan Acs, Mary Boardman and Connie McNeely

Volume 40, issue 2, 2013

Coase on entrepreneurship pp. 173-184 Downloads
Siri Ann Terjesen and Ning Wang
An absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship pp. 185-197 Downloads
Haifeng Qian and Zoltan Acs
Leveraging entrepreneurship through private investments: does gender matter? pp. 199-210 Downloads
Dora Gicheva and Albert N. Link
Creating good public policy to support high-growth firms pp. 211-225 Downloads
Colin Mason and Ross Brown
Completing the technology transfer process: M&As of science-based IPOs pp. 227-248 Downloads
Michele Meoli, Stefano Paleari and Silvio Vismara
The influence of age on SMEs’ growth determinants: empirical evidence pp. 249-272 Downloads
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 Downloads
Patrick Kreiser, Louis Marino, Donald Kuratko and K. Weaver
Dismissal protection and small firms’ hirings: evidence from a policy reform pp. 293-307 Downloads
Stefan Josef Bauernschuster
Entrepreneurial skills and workers’ wages in small firms pp. 309-323 Downloads
Rui Baptista, Francisco Lima and Miguel Preto
Health insurance provision and labor contracts for small firms pp. 325-334 Downloads
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 Downloads
Alexander Schiersch
How did the notional interest deduction affect Belgian SMEs’ capital structure? pp. 351-373 Downloads
Geert Campenhout and Tom Caneghem
The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees pp. 375-396 Downloads
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 Downloads
Fabio Pieri and Enrico Zaninotto
Failing firms and successful entrepreneurs: serial entrepreneurship as a temporal portfolio pp. 417-434 Downloads
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 Downloads
Enrico Santarelli and Hien Tran
School competition and students’ entrepreneurial intentions: international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling pp. 459-478 Downloads
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 Downloads
Albert N. Link and Dianne Welsh
Employment and SMEs during crises pp. 9-25 Downloads
Celeste Varum and Vera Catarina Rocha
What’s so entrepreneurial about intrapreneurs? pp. 27-39 Downloads
Aloña Martiarena
Trends in family business research pp. 41-57 Downloads
Carlos Benavides-Velasco, Cristina Quintana-García and Vanesa Guzmán-Parra
Governance mechanisms, investment opportunity set and SMEs cash holdings pp. 59-72 Downloads
Yacine Belghitar and James Khan
African Americans’ pursuit of self-employment pp. 73-86 Downloads
Magnus Lofstrom and Timothy M. Bates
Microcredit: an answer to the gender problem in funding? pp. 87-100 Downloads
Sophie Brana
The trade credit channel revisited: evidence from micro data of Japanese small firms pp. 101-118 Downloads
Kazuo Ogawa, Elmer Sterken and Ichiro Tokutsu
Entrepreneurial opportunities in peripheral versus core regions in Chile pp. 119-139 Downloads
José Ernesto Amorós Espinosa, Christian Felzensztein and Eli Gimmon
Tax progressivity and self-employment: evidence from Canadian provinces pp. 141-153 Downloads
Ergete Ferede
The best and the brightest or the least successful? Self-employment entry among male wage-earners in Sweden pp. 155-172 Downloads
Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö

Volume 39, issue 4, 2012

Patents, knowledge spillovers, and entrepreneurship pp. 801-817 Downloads
Zoltan J. Acs and Mark Walter Johan Louis Sanders
Self-employment: the role of intellectual property right laws pp. 819-833 Downloads
Andrew Emmet Burke and Stuart Fraser
Social capital of venture capitalists and start-up funding pp. 835-851 Downloads
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 Downloads
Per Davidsson and Scott Gordon
Knowledge context and entrepreneurial intentions among students pp. 877-895 Downloads
Dirk Christian Dohse and Sascha Walter
The strength of science and technology drivers for SME innovation pp. 897-907 Downloads
Mario Parrilli and Aitziber Elola
Bank market structure and entrepreneurship pp. 909-920 Downloads
Tammy Rogers
Picking the winner? Empirical evidence on the targeting of R&D subsidies to start-ups pp. 921-936 Downloads
Uwe Cantner and Sarah Kösters
Do firms’ growth rates depend on firm size? pp. 937-947 Downloads
Jan Bentzen, Erik Madsen and Valdemar Smith
Firm exit after distress: differentiating between bankruptcy, voluntary liquidation and M&A pp. 949-975 Downloads
Sofie Balcaen, Sophie Manigart, Jozefien Buyze and Hubert Ooghe
On the adjustment speed of SMEs to their optimal capital structure pp. 977-996 Downloads
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 Downloads
Stefano Bonini and Senem Alkan
Generalising Gibrat: using Chinese evidence founded on fieldwork pp. 1017-1028 Downloads
Gavin Clydesdale Reid and Zhibin Xu
What makes a high-growth firm? A dynamic probit analysis using Spanish firm-level data pp. 1029-1041 Downloads
Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Sergio Puente
Turbulence underneath the big calm? The micro-evidence behind Italian productivity dynamics pp. 1043-1067 Downloads
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 Downloads
David Audretsch and Iñaki Peña-Legazkue
Creative industries, new business formation, and regional economic growth pp. 539-560 Downloads
Roberta Piergiovanni, Martin Carree and Enrico Santarelli
Innovation, entrepreneurial activity and competitiveness at a sub-national level pp. 561-574 Downloads
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 Downloads
Sierdjan Koster, André van Stel and Mickey Folkeringa
Regional competitiveness, university spillovers, and entrepreneurial activity pp. 587-601 Downloads
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 Downloads
Paul Robson, Charles Akuetteh, Paul Westhead and Mike Wright
The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development pp. 627-643 Downloads
Peter Zwan, Ingrid Verheul and Roy Thurik
(Optimal) spatial aggregation in the determinants of industrial location pp. 645-658 Downloads
Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod and Miguel Manjón-Antolín
Nascent entrepreneurship panel studies: progress and challenges pp. 659-665 Downloads
William Gartner and Kelly Shaver
Expectancy theory and nascent entrepreneurship pp. 667-684 Downloads
Maija Renko, K. Kroeck and Amanda Bullough
The nascent entrepreneurship hub: goals, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and start-up outcomes pp. 685-701 Downloads
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 Downloads
William Gartner and Jianwen Liao
Development and validation of a locus of control scale for the entrepreneurship domain pp. 713-726 Downloads
Leon Schjoedt and Kelly Shaver
Birds of a feather get lost together: new venture team composition and performance pp. 727-743 Downloads
Paul Steffens, Siri Ann Terjesen and Per Davidsson
Financing the emerging firm pp. 745-761 Downloads
William Gartner, Casey Frid and John Alexander
Properties of emerging organizations: empirical evidence from Norway pp. 763-781 Downloads
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 Downloads
Juita-Elena Yusuf

Volume 39, issue 2, 2012

Employment growth from the Small Business Innovation Research program pp. 265-287 Downloads
Albert N. Link and John Troy Scott
Growth and entrepreneurship pp. 289-300 Downloads
Zoltan J. Acs, David Audretsch, Pontus Brodde Braunerhjelm and Bo Carlsson
Organisation structure and innovation performance in different environments pp. 301-317 Downloads
Andy Cosh, Xiaolan Fu and Alan Hughes
Affirmative action programs and business ownership among minorities and women pp. 319-339 Downloads
Robert W. Fairlie and Justin Marion
Quantity and quality of information and SME financial structure pp. 341-358 Downloads
Tom Caneghem and Geert Campenhout
Entrepreneurship in India: the question of occupational transition pp. 359-382 Downloads
Erik Monsen, Prashanth Mahagaonkar and Christian Dienes
Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India pp. 383-400 Downloads
Alex Coad and Jaganaddha Tamvada
Bargaining power and information in SME lending pp. 401-417 Downloads
Jens Grunert and Lars Norden
Determinants of R&D cooperation in small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 419-436 Downloads
Hyunbae Chun and Sung-Bae Mun
How SMEs exploit their intellectual property assets: evidence from survey data pp. 437-452 Downloads
Gaetan de Rassenfosse
Do firms learn by exporting or learn to export? Evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 453-472 Downloads
Kent Eliasson, Pär Hansson and Markus Lindvert
Part-time entrepreneurship and financial constraints: evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics pp. 473-493 Downloads
Kameliia Petrova
Founders’ human capital and the performance of UK new technology based firms pp. 495-515 Downloads
Panagiotis Ganotakis
How does working capital management affect the profitability of Spanish SMEs? pp. 517-529 Downloads
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 Downloads
Dirk Oberschachtsiek
Quantile estimates of the impact of R&D intensity on firm performance pp. 19-37 Downloads
Martin Falk
Identity and entrepreneurship: do school peers shape entrepreneurial intentions? pp. 39-59 Downloads
Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich and Elke Luedemann
The impact of firm entry regulation on long-living entrants pp. 61-76 Downloads
Susanne Prantl
Taxation and entrepreneurship in a welfare state pp. 77-97 Downloads
Mikael Stenkula
The productivity payoff of information technology in multimarket SMEs pp. 99-117 Downloads
Francesco Domenico Sandulli, José Fernández-Menéndez, Antonio Rodríguez-Duarte and José López-Sánchez
Size matters: entrepreneurial entry and government pp. 119-139 Downloads
Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin and Tomasz Marek Mickiewicz
Supporter networks and network growth: a contingency model of organizational emergence pp. 141-159 Downloads
Scott Newbert and Erno Tornikoski
Trustworthiness and interest rates: an empirical study of Italian SMEs pp. 161-177 Downloads
Carole Howorth and Andrea Moro
Financing technology-based small firms in Europe: what do we know? pp. 179-205 Downloads
Valérie Revest and Sandro Sapio
Consolidation by merger: the UK beer market pp. 207-229 Downloads
Silviano Esteve-Pérez
The geographic determinants of bankruptcy: evidence from Switzerland pp. 231-251 Downloads
Stefan Buehler, Christian Kaiser and Franz Jaeger
The economic impact of the Canada small business financing program pp. 253-264 Downloads
Vincent Chandler
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