Small Business Economics

1992 - 2013

Edited by Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch

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Volume 32, issue 4, 2009

Building an integrative model of small business growth pp. 351-374

Johan Wiklund, Holger Patzelt and Dean Shepherd

Are small firms less efficient? pp. 375-395

Chih-Hai Yang and Ku-Hsieh Chen

Founding family leadership and industry profitability pp. 397-407

Trond Randøy, Clay Dibrell and Justin Craig

Firm growth in industrial clusters of the United Kingdom pp. 409-424

Catherine Beaudry and Gavin Peter Swann

Determinants of growth in non-farm proprietor densities in the US, 1990–2000 pp. 425-438

Stephan Goetz and Anil Rupasingha

Financial development and the growth of cooperative firms pp. 439-464

Francesca Gagliardi

Volume 32, issue 3, 2009

Linking globalization of entrepreneurship in small organizations pp. 233-239

Domingo Soriano and Salvador Dobon

Effects of IT knowledge and media selection on operational performance of small firms pp. 241-257

Sang Lee, Jinhan Kim, Yeonog Choi and Sang-Gun Lee

The responsiveness of entrepreneurs to working time regulations pp. 259-276

Frank Stephen, David Urbano and Stefan Hemmen

Job satisfaction and commitment in the entrepreneurial SME pp. 277-289

Gary Akehurst, José Comeche and Miguel-Angel Galindo

The impact of knowledge management on innovation and entrepreneurship in the biotechnology and telecommunications industries pp. 291-301

Daniel Palacios, Ignacio Gil and Fernando Garrigos

Critical success factors for e-commerce entrepreneurship: an empirical study of Thailand pp. 303-316

Terrence Sebora, Sang Lee and Nittana Sukasame

Functional dependence and productive dependence of SMEs pp. 317-330

Joaquín Guzmán-Cuevas, Rafael Cáceres-Carrasco and Domingo Soriano

Entrepreneurship and innovation in Ghana: enterprising Africa pp. 331-350

Paul Robson, Helen Haugh and Bernard Obeng

Volume 32, issue 2, 2009

The Diana Project: pioneering women studying pioneering women pp. 121-128

Carin Holmquist and Sara Carter

Diana: a symbol of women entrepreneurs’ hunt for knowledge, money, and the rewards of entrepreneurship pp. 129-144

Elizabeth Gatewood, Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Patricia Greene and Myra Hart

The alert and creative entrepreneur: a clarification pp. 145-152

Israel Kirzner

Risk attitudes of nascent entrepreneurs–new evidence from an experimentally validated survey pp. 153-167

Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen and Alexander S. Kritikos

Science parks: seedbeds of innovation? A duration analysis of firms’ patenting activity pp. 169-190

Mariagrazia Squicciarini

The impact of public guarantees on credit to SMEs pp. 191-206

Salvatore Zecchini and Marco Ventura

Microenterprises and multiple bank relationships: The case of professionals pp. 207-229

Doris Neuberger and Solvig Räthke

Financial development and the growth of cooperative firms pp. 231-231

Francesca Gagliardi

Volume 32, issue 1, 2009

The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 1-14

Magnus Henrekson and Anders Lundström

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship pp. 15-30

Zoltan J. Acs, Pontus Brodde Braunerhjelm, David Audretsch and Bo Carlsson

Defending Gibrat’s Law as a long-run regularity pp. 31-44

Francesca Lotti, Enrico Santarelli and Marco Vivarelli

Succession and firm growth: results from a non-parametric matching approach pp. 45-56

Denise Diwisch, Peter Voithofer and Christoph Weiss

Corporate diversification and CEO turnover in family businesses: self-entrenchment or risk reduction? pp. 57-76

Wen-Hsien Tsai, Yi-Chen Kuo and Jung-Hua Hung

Exploring alternative strategic management paradigms in high-growth ethnic and non-ethnic family firms pp. 77-94

Ajay Bhalla, Joseph Lampel, Steven Henderson and David Watkins

Small business survival and inheritance: evidence from Germany pp. 95-109

Dorothea Schäfer and Oleksandr Talavera

Back to basics: The Comanor–Wilson MES index revisited pp. 111-120

Kostas Tsekouras, Efthalia Dimara, Dimitris Skuras and Dimitris Tzelepis

Volume 31, issue 4, 2008

Building new roads for entrepreneurship research to travel by: on the work of William B. Gartner pp. 341-350

Daniel Hjorth and Bengt Johannisson

Variations in entrepreneurship pp. 351-361

William Gartner

Does securities regulation constrain small business finance? An empirical analysis pp. 363-377

Cécile Carpentier, Jean-François L’Her and Jean-Marc Suret

The death of firms: exploring the effects of environment and birth cohort on firm survival in Sweden pp. 379-393

Marcus Box

The impact of foreign direct investment on new firm survival in the UK: evidence for static versus dynamic industries pp. 395-407

Andrew Emmet Burke, Holger Görg and Aoife Hanley

Legal reform and aggregate small and micro business bankruptcy rates: evidence from the 1997 Belgian bankruptcy code pp. 409-424

Nico Dewaelheyns and Cynthia Hulle

Expectations, network effects and timing of technology adoption: some empirical evidence from a sample of SMEs in Italy pp. 425-441

Nicoletta Corrocher and Roberto Fontana

Effect of credit guarantee policy on survival and performance of SMEs in Republic of Korea pp. 443-443

Jae Kang, Almas Heshmati and Gyoung-Gyu Choi

Effect of credit guarantee policy on survival and performance of SMEs in Republic of Korea pp. 445-462

Jae Kang and Almas Heshmati

Volume 31, issue 3, 2008

Entrepreneurship, economic development and institutions pp. 219-234

Zoltan J. Acs, Sameeksha Desai and Jolanda Hessels

A theoretical grounding and test of the GEM model pp. 235-263

Jonathan Levie and Erkko Autio

What does “entrepreneurship” data really show? pp. 265-281

Zoltan J. Acs, Sameeksha Desai and Leora F. Klapper

Knowledge spillovers and new ventures’ export orientation pp. 283-303

Dirk Clercq, Jolanda Hessels and André van Stel

Entrepreneurship and competitiveness dynamics in Latin America pp. 305-322

Zoltan J. Acs and José Ernesto Amorós Espinosa

Entrepreneurial aspirations, motivations, and their drivers pp. 323-339

Jolanda Hessels, Marco Gelderen and Roy Thurik

Volume 31, issue 2, 2008

What makes a die-hard entrepreneur? Beyond the ‘employee or entrepreneur’ dichotomy pp. 93-115

Andrew Emmet Burke, Felix FitzRoy and Michael Nolan

Testing trade-off and pecking order theories financing SMEs pp. 117-136

José López-Gracia and Francisco Sogorb-Mira

Does only size matter in the use of knowledge intensive services? pp. 137-146

Jose Garcia-Quevedo and Francisco Mas-Verdú

Associations versus registration as alternative strategies of small firms pp. 147-161

Grigor Sukiassyan and Jeffrey Nugent

Boards of directors in family firms: a generational perspective pp. 163-180

Yannick Bammens, Wim Voordeckers and Anita E.J. Van Gils

Innovation, R&D cooperation and labor recruitment: evidence from Finland pp. 181-194

Jaakko Simonen and Philip McCann

Performance and size: empirical evidence from Portuguese SMEs pp. 195-217

Zelia Serrasqueiro and Paulo Macas Nunes

Volume 31, issue 1, 2008

International issues in entrepreneurship pp. 1-3

Christian Schade and Donald S. Siegel

The US bankruptcy law and private equity financing: empirical evidence pp. 5-19

Iftekhar Hasan and Haizhi Wang

Why are some entrepreneurs more innovative than others? pp. 21-37

Philipp Koellinger

The export intensity of venture capital backed companies pp. 39-58

Andy Lockett, Mike Wright, Andrew Burrows, Louise Scholes and David Paton

Financial intermediaries, ownership structure and the provision of venture capital to SMEs: evidence from Japan pp. 59-92

Douglas J. Cumming, Grant Fleming and Armin Schwienbacher