Small Business Economics

1992 - 2026

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Volume 67, issue 3, 2026

Mentoring, intersectionality and awareness of SME finance initiatives pp. 1283-1297

Samuel Mwaura, Stephen Knox and Sara Carter

Entrepreneurship ecosystems and national climate change performance: a global multi-method analysis pp. 1299-1326

Mehmet Ali Köseoglu and Nagihan Cakmakoglu Arici

Financial market discipline and new business formation pp. 1327-1344

Michaël Dewally, Pu Liu and Yingying Shao

Firm size and the automation wage premium pp. 1345-1386

Laura Bisio, Angelo Cuzzola, Marco Grazzi and Daniele Moschella

The female manager effect: evidence on firm strategy and performance from a Matching Difference-in-Differences design pp. 1387-1412

Mehtabul Azam

Does Berger and Udell (1998) financial life-cycle theory hold for loan interest rates? pp. 1413-1434

Marc Cowling, Ciarán Mac an Bhaird, Seán O’Reilly and Huan Yang

Variable and fixed rate debt: Gambling on the future state of the economy after Covid-19 pp. 1435-1450

Marc Cowling, Kit Pong Wong and Huan Yang

A firm divide? Intrinsic and extrinsic determinants of job outcomes by firm size pp. 1451-1478

Sinisa Hadziabdic and Sebastian Kohl

Entrepreneurship, gender, and marriage: navigating uncertainty pp. 1479-1509

Nabamita Dutta and Joshua D. Ammons

Firms’ investment and capacity utilisation: the role of financial constraints and uncertainty pp. 1511-1552

Siavash Mohades, Giulia Piccillo, Maria Savona and Tania Treibich

Certification or cash prize: the heterogeneous effect of venture competitions pp. 1553-1589

Gaétan de Rassenfosse and Matthias van den Heuvel

Cumulative versus punctuated patterns of R&D learning, productivity and R&D persistence pp. 1591-1634

Juan A. Mañez, James H. Love and Ana Luiza Terra

Non-practicing entities as financial intermediaries in the market for technology: a case study of Silicon Valley’s brokered patent market pp. 1635-1670

Paul P. Momtaz

Taking it personally? The role of personality in strategic crisis management pp. 1671-1708

Hanna Hottenrott and Eline Schoonjans

The liability of gender: the effect of gender stereotypes on financing gaps for social startups pp. 1709-1736

Romi Kher, Scott L. Newbert and Shu Yang

Learning to grow in entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 1737-1773

Ben Spigel

From crowds to boards: the impact of equity crowdfunding on board size pp. 1775-1804

Nina Marien, Ine Paeleman, Marc Deloof and Armin Schwienbacher

Network agency unlocks the world of advice: Entrepreneurs’ networking intensity and social skills pp. 1805-1828

Kim Klyver, Mette Søgaard Nielsen, Mark T. Schenkel and Tom Elfring

Employee age and experience as determinants of new-firm survival: evidence from Turkish matched employer–employee data pp. 1829-1862

Erol Taymaz and Kamil Yilmaz

Theorizing typologies of entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 1863-1886

Sophia Hess, Ben Spigel, Maksim Belitski and Andreas Wahl

Subsidy for the first hires and firm performance pp. 1887-1927

Haotian Deng, Sam Desiere, Bart Cockx and Gert Bijnens

SMEs performance in public procurement and the Italian Legality Rating pp. 1929-1945

Andrea Fazio, Erminia Florio and Gustavo Piga

How R&D grant size affects innovation in small firms pp. 1947-1973

Renato de Castro Garcia, Veneziano Araujo and Sarah Ferreira

Can Digital Innovation Hubs improve the performance of SMEs? Empirical evidence from Italy pp. 1975-1991

Diego Matricano and Eric W. Liguori

Personality traits of entrepreneurs and the size of their firms pp. 1993-2009

Berfin Kardaslar, Alexander Kritikos and Lukas Menkhoff

Beyond branch expansion: bank financial technology as a catalyst for SME innovation in China pp. 2011-2037

Yuhong Huang, Jiale Jia, Ruiyi Ren and Haijun Wang

Volume 67, issue 2, 2026

Shaping technology transfer and policy-oriented entrepreneurship research: Albert N. Link and Donald S. Siegel recipients of the 2026 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 669-677

David B. Audretsch, Magnus Henrekson, Lucia Naldi, Alexander Ljungqvist, Mikael Stenkula, Caroline Wigren-Kristoferson, Joakim Wincent and Ivo Zander

Reflections on a road not taken pp. 679-685

Albert Link

Technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship: a personal journey, lessons learned from the literature, and new directions pp. 687-698

Donald Siegel

How humiliation reconstructs (or ruins) the entrepreneurial self pp. 699-722

Michael G. Goldsby and Donald F. Kuratko

Growth expectations of entrepreneurs during crisis: the role of social, environmental, and economic motivations pp. 723-750

Ngoc Thien Thy Tran, Tomasz Mickiewicz, Emma Folmer and Ute Stephan

Resilience through religion: technology adoption in female entrepreneurship pp. 751-779

Reem Jasim

Government venture capital and financial constraints: growth and credit effects among Swedish SMEs pp. 781-815

Roger Svensson

Training and innovation in microbusinesses pp. 817-840

Marion Frenz, Odile E. M. Janne and Grace Bo Peng

Targeted monetary policy and loan availability for small and microenterprises: A bank competitive strategy perspective pp. 841-863

Xiaohua Zhou, Suijia Li, Hui Xu and Huimin Liu

Institutional background in crowdfunding: trust, signals, and backers’ decisions pp. 865-914

Prabal Shrestha, Veroniek Collewaert and James Thewissen

Persuasive communications in the rapidly evolving area of entrepreneurial investment: the past, present, and future pp. 915-940

Regan Stevenson, Dean A. Shepherd and Jared Allen

Practices of European and American venture capitalists: homogeneity and heterogeneity at work pp. 941-973

Benjamin Le Pendeven, Jeroen Verbouw, Anna Söderblom, José Marti Pellon, Sophie Manigart, Massimo G. Colombo, Massimiliano Guerini and Christian Fisch

The paradox of returning backers: funding success and the observable engagement disconnect in crowdfunding pp. 975-994

Ohsung Kim and Jungwon Lee

Serial entrepreneurs and the macroeconomy pp. 995-1017

Micole De Vera, Sónia Félix, Sudipto Karmakar and Petr Sedláček

Adopting artificial intelligence in small and medium businesses: the knowledge-based perspective pp. 1019-1045

Elettra D’Amico, David Bruce Audretsch, Maksim Belitski and Alessandra Colombelli

The adoption of artificial intelligence methods in entrepreneurship research: current state and pathways forward pp. 1047-1071

Tatiana Beliaeva, Sami Ben Jabeur and Adnan Maalaoui

Exploring social difference among entrepreneurs in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a systematic review and intersectional framework pp. 1073-1092

Micaela Lois, Isabella Stingl, Heike Mayer and Susann Schäfer

Juggling attention spaces: impact of regulatory focus dispersion on firm performance in family and non-family businesses pp. 1093-1118

Pankaj C. Patel and Alfredo De Massis

Entrepreneurial intention and action in response to obesity: the roles of health and psychosocial experience pp. 1119-1150

Frank Fossen and Stela Ivanova

Taking stock and looking ahead: research on antecedents and impact of sustainable entrepreneurship pp. 1151-1165

Jacob Hörisch, Iñaki Peña-Legazkue and Roy Thurik

Entrepreneurs and sleep: a scoping review of barriers, recovery strategies, and effects on performance pp. 1167-1193

Xavier Michaud, Florence Guiliani, Félix Ballesteros Leiva and Guido Simonelli

Visual artificial intelligence as a methodological frontier in entrepreneurship research: a roadmap and empirical demonstration pp. 1195-1222

Martin Obschonka, Christian Fisch, Tatiana Beliaeva, Sami Ben Jabeur, Tharindu Fernando and Clinton Fookes

Making a miracle: the interplay of grit and community belonging in polycrisis pp. 1223-1245

David B. Audretsch and Dafna Kariv

Evolving ventures and venture capital syndicate resource diversity pp. 1247-1281

Yu Luna Liu and Haemin Dennis Park

Volume 67, issue 1, 2026

Does crowdfunding foster rural entrepreneurship? pp. 1-27

Nicola Cortinovis

The impact of education on entrepreneurial entry in rural areas: the role of village entrepreneurial intensity and clan culture in emerging economies pp. 29-54

Danny Soetanto, Qihai Huang, Shuangfa Huang, Xiaoying Li and Guowei Cai

The role of rural health entrepreneurship in community resilience: a model of multidimensional value creation pp. 55-75

Ivan Paunović, Sotiris Apostolopoulos, Nikos Apostolopoulos, Robert Newbery, Ivana Božić-Miljković, Gregory Maniatopoulos and Martin King

The influence of embeddedness on rural entrepreneurs and their ventures: insights from the implementation of makerspaces in rural Saxony pp. 77-107

Valeria Dammicco and Juan C. Diaz-Zagarra

Immigrant communities and rural entrepreneurship: the double-edged dynamics of business exits in rural America pp. 109-130

Joshua V. White, Kris Irwin, Cameron J. Borgholthaus and Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Entrepreneurship for the rural? A reflection on rural entrepreneurship in a time of multi-crisis pp. 131-151

Steffen Korsgaard, Gary Bosworth and Johan Gaddefors

Community resilience through rural entrepreneurship: the case of Tribal Textiles pp. 153-179

Stacey Edgar, Elizabeth Embry, Katrina M. Brownell and Jill Kickul

Mise en place: rural entrepreneurship and the role of the community pp. 181-205

Christopher Boudreaux and Joao Fernando Rossi Mazzoni

Rooted in place and potential to change: how sense of place and openness to change influence community entrepreneurship intentions pp. 207-226

Dongwook Jimmy Kim, Onnolee Nordstrom, Erik Monsen and Joshua Marineau

A microfoundational network theory of rural entrepreneurial ecosystems: establishing the link between structure and behaviours pp. 227-250

Stephanie Scott, Farzana Chowdhury, Efstathios Papanikolaou and Dacosta Omari

Rural entrepreneurship: leveraging social media for circular economies and green activism pp. 251-270

Michael Christofi, Nadia Zahoor, Adeel Khalid and Muhammad Usman

Three faces of rural entrepreneurship: policy, lifestyle, and sustainability in a Patagonian entrepreneurial ecosystem pp. 271-297

Carlos Poblete, Daniel Mahn, Cristina Acuña and Felipe Rifo

Sustainable innovation in craft-based SMEs: a mixed-method study of Indonesian batik communities pp. 299-336

Budi Harsanto, Yulistyne Kasumaningrum, Asep Mulyana, Yudi Ahmad Faisal and Elias Hadjielias

Sustainable business model innovation in rural entrepreneurial ecosystems: a conceptual framework and research agenda pp. 337-360

Jens Kaus and Jason Entsminger

Big data-based management decisions and start-up performance pp. 361-399

Elisa Rodepeter, Christoph Gschnaidtner and Hanna Hottenrott

One more KIS? A new approach to mapping university-KIS interactions in EU regions pp. 401-434

Alice Bertoletti and Francesco Lelli

Is it too novel to succeed? How technological novelty affects observer responses to entrepreneurship failure pp. 435-460

Yue Zhang, Bin Wang, Feifan Yang, Yijing Liao, Xiaoshu Ma and Shanshan Su

The participation of young firms in public procurement pp. 461-492

Bastian Krieger, Lena Füner and Malte Prüfer

How institutional soil nourishes entrepreneurial seeds: natural experimental evidence from China’s IPR protection pp. 493-516

Ziyu Liu, Binhui Wei and Jinhai Xu

Do online sales reduce delayed payments and ease financial obstacles? pp. 517-546

Nalin Ranjan, Chandan Kumar Jha and Sunny Kumar Singh

Harnessing green knowledge in small and medium enterprises pp. 547-579

Meng Song and Becky P. Y. Loo

When formal management practices meet informal governance: family ownership and productivity in UK firms pp. 581-618

Yuchen Feng, Andrew Henley and Anna Kochanova

Entrepreneurial stakeholder enrollment: discriminating alignment under intersubjective uncertainty pp. 619-642

Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G. Klein and Samuele Murtinu

Uneven gains: understanding LOF and multiculturalism impacts for immigrant and native-founded firms pp. 643-667

Anastasia V. G. Bailey and Benjamin A. Campbell