Small Business Economics

1992 - 2026

Current editor(s): Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch

From Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().

Access Statistics for this journal.
Is something missing from the series or not right? See the RePEc data check for the archive and series.

Volume 66, issue 4, 2026

AI, trust, and the market for lemons: rethinking the credibility of entrepreneurship research pp. 1529-1555

Martin Obschonka and Moren Lévesque

How obstacles shape environmental and social sustainability processes in family and non-family firms pp. 1557-1580

Lidia Mannarino and Valeria Pupo

Seeing through the mist: why the narrative of a secular decline in entrepreneurship is premature pp. 1581-1604

Bruno Fischer, Angelica Pigola, Pedro Henrique Napoli and Gustavo Hermínio Salati Marcondes de Moraes

Unlocking SME innovation success through sequenced collaboration pp. 1605-1633

Antonios D. Livieratos, George Tsekouras, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Georgia Tsiliki

Entrepreneurial growth aspirations and the adoption of environmental actions: the role of regulatory stringency pp. 1635-1663

Joan-Lluís Capelleras, Ignacio Contín-Pilart, Martin Larraza-Kintana and Victor Martin-Sanchez

A tale of two startups: the loss and gain of startups in the U.S. economy in the pandemic pp. 1665-1672

Robert Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen and Ke Lyu

Deviant response: The effect of income inequality on informal entrepreneurship in emerging economies pp. 1673-1695

Shihao Wei, Christopher Boudreaux, Zhongfeng Su, Zhan Wu and Pekka Stenholm

The impact of entrepreneur’s insomnia on psychological capital pp. 1697-1719

Ludvig Levasseur, Masoud Karami, Sai Chittaranjan Kalubandi, Bhuvanesh Pareek and Apurva Sanaria

The impacts of public attention to artificial intelligence on innovation pp. 1721-1754

Baoxi Li and Xiyue Yang

More knowledge, more entrepreneurs? An investigation of the science and cluster policy mix in Germany pp. 1755-1784

David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann, Matthias Menter and Nikolaus Seitz

Gender and firm-level corruption: new evidence from MENA pp. 1785-1821

Amira El-Shal

Large banks’ service expansion and the survival of small and micro businesses: from the perspective of liquidity constraints pp. 1823-1842

Zheyu Miao and Yueshu Zhou

Perspectives on rural entrepreneurial ecosystems and women’s venturing: an analysis of local factors associated with female self-employment in non-metro U.S. counties pp. 1843-1873

Xiaoyin Li, Jason S. Entsminger and Heather M. Stephens

Digital infrastructure and export of SMEs: evidence from China pp. 1875-1900

Zhuoran Bai, Junliang Ge, Danyang Zhang and Yan Zhang

Socio-cognitive traits and hybrid entrepreneurship: the moderating role of labor institutions pp. 1901-1922

Sebastián Uriarte, Vesna Mandakovic and José Ernesto Amorós

Entrepreneurship under ambiguity: extending Aghion and Howitt pp. 1923-1945

Niclas Berggren

From constraint to capability: occupational adaptation and well-being among immigrants in Canada pp. 1947-1968

Hien Thu Tran

National innovation systems and firms’ capital investment around the world: a N-tuple helix approach pp. 1969-1989

Apostolos Vetsikas, Charilaos Mertzanis and Athanasios Pavlopoulos

Microfoundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a critical commentary on future research directions pp. 1991-2010

Angelo Cavallo, Massimo Gaetano Colombo and Nicolai J. Foss

Transcending climate barriers: roads to resilience for rural entrepreneurship pp. 2011-2030

Xiangpo Chen, S. T. Boris Choy and Yuchan Lin

Volume 66, issue 3, 2026

Entrepreneurial deviance as bright and dark character virtues: the Harry Potter study pp. 949-975

Martin Obschonka, Teemu Kautonen, Tobias Ebert and Friedrich M. Götz

The impact of on-the-job training subsidies on firm-level outcomes: evidence from Flemish SMEs pp. 977-1003

Jozef Konings and Aaron Putseys

Orchestrating entrepreneurial ecosystems through transactive memory systems: a learning-based framework pp. 1005-1024

Dev K. Dutta and Indu Khurana

Sowing the seeds of rural prosperity? The limited impact of USDA investments on county-level business dynamics pp. 1025-1058

Pankaj C. Patel

Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research pp. 1059-1116

David Urbano, Claudia Alvarez and Tatiana Lopez

Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation pp. 1117-1139

Argyro Iro Nikiforou, Lars Alkærsig, Irini Voudouris and Jes Broeng

Employment growth ambitions in social versus commercial entrepreneurship pp. 1141-1161

Pourya Darnihamedani and Joern Hendrich Block

Environmental policy stringency and firm efficiency in developing countries pp. 1163-1182

Bao We Wal Bambe, Jean-Louis Combes, Ben-Vieira Kouassi and Sonia Schwartz

Unseen strain: how entrepreneurial pursuits undermine spousal well-being pp. 1183-1206

Wei Yu, Seok-Woo Kwon, Kanwal Bokhari and Jia Bao

Risk or opportunity: the impact of high-temperature shocks on necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship pp. 1207-1231

Yu Dong, Xuehong Zhu and Qiong Xu

Innovation and firm survival over the industry life cycle pp. 1233-1262

Ann Hipp and Martin Kalthaus

The rise of nonemployer businesses in the United States: an analysis by geography pp. 1263-1288

Tessa Conroy, Austin Landini and Mary McDermott

The impact of communication, gender, and risk aversion on family businesses’ sustainable practices: a game theoretical and experimental approach pp. 1289-1307

Adelinda Ramos, Shital Jayantilal, Sílvia F. Jorge and Filipe Sardo

The impact of public incentives on the birth of innovative start-ups pp. 1309-1332

Giuseppe Albanese and Raffaello Bronzini

Childhood exposure to natural disasters and future entrepreneurship in adulthood pp. 1333-1352

Nathan Sidney Greidanus and Chi Liao

Family firms’ digital transformation: pathways and tensions pp. 1353-1369

Ricarda B. Bouncken, Jeffrey G. Covin and Florian Schmitt

Do businesses benefit from labor hoarding? pp. 1371-1393

Nadia Greenhalgh-Stanley, Shawn M. Rohlin and Amanda Weinstein

Entrepreneurship at the periphery: financial constraints, firm growth, and the liability of distance in island contexts pp. 1395-1418

Vivien Lefebvre

External pressures, internal priorities: how socially oriented NGOs condition the performance effects of SMEs’ sustainability orientation pp. 1419-1439

Joshua V. White, Yulia Aray and Karina A. Bogatyreva

Regulatory thresholds and post-IPO acquisitions: evidence from the JOBS Act pp. 1441-1469

Azizjon Alimov

The role of decentralized and traditional entrepreneurial finance in startups financing: an analysis of ICO-funded startups pp. 1471-1493

Alessia Pedrazzoli, Paola Bongini, Monica Rossolini and Silvio Vismara

I've got a feeling—how multi-modal emotional expressions affect investment decisions in reward-based crowdfunding pp. 1495-1523

Sebastian Schlauderer, Sven Overhage and Maximilian Raab

Publisher Correction: Understanding the role of place in emerging organisational fields: a comparative analysis of nascent ICT entrepreneurial ecosystems in Japan pp. 1525-1525

Agata Kapturkiewicz

Correction to: Bank financing for SMEs in times of crisis: when “whatever-it-takes” confronts “black swans” pp. 1527-1528

Ling Wang

Volume 66, issue 2, 2026

From flashlight to spotlight: Illuminating gray shadows that shape entrepreneurship’s dark sides pp. 551-563

April J. Spivack, Amitabh Anand, Anders Örtenblad, Dieter Bögenhold, Christina Theodoraki and Oana Branzei

Managing destructive entrepreneurship in place: formal and informal institutions for the achievement of regional economic growth pp. 565-588

Sebastian Aparicio, Diego Martinez-Moya, Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora and David Urbano

Perpetuating enforcement weakness: entrepreneurs’ destructive actions in normalizing rule-breaking pp. 589-611

Ashenafi Biru and Pia Arenius

The social benefit of being destructive: entrepreneurship and loan diversion pp. 613-631

Rosaria Distefano

Legitimising destructive entrepreneurship: the case of a crypto-entrepreneur pp. 633-646

Sylvain Bureau, Rand Gerges-Yammine, Daniele Battaglia and Jun Zhou

The dark side of doing good: a guiding framework for advancing research on the negative outcomes of social entrepreneurship pp. 647-674

Sophie Bacq, Frank Janssen, Anne-Sophie Sabbatucci and Amélie Wuillaume

The emergence and impact of the entrepreneurship industry pp. 675-683

Anna Brattström, Marian Eabrasu, Richard Hunt, Christian Sandström and Karl Wennberg

Empowering or excluding? A cultural perspective on how the entrepreneurship industry reinforces privilege pp. 685-698

Christina Kyprianou and Siddharth Vedula

Frames of entrepreneurship: 30 years of field evolution in the entrepreneurship industry pp. 699-718

Mart Ots, Joaquin Cestino Castilla and Marie Madeleine Meurer

Venture builders: new venture production in the entrepreneurship industry pp. 719-736

John-Erik Hassel, Tommy Høyvarde Clausen, Einar Rasmussen and Christina Öberg

The emergence and impact of the military veteran entrepreneurship industry pp. 737-751

Mirza Tihic, Adam Pritchard and Alexander McKelvie

How enabling is the entrepreneurship industry? EI intermediaries and the spectrum of entrepreneurial action and outcomes pp. 753-772

Parul Manocha and Kip Kiefer

Building a space entrepreneurship industry: The role of entrepreneurial support programs for startup growth pp. 773-795

Angelo Cavallo, Christina Theodoraki and Alessandro Lucini-Paioni

Balancing act or two roads to travel: Evaluating the trade-offs between digitalization and net zero innovation in SMEs pp. 797-826

Effie Kesidou, Anastasia Ri and Stephen Roper

Hidden champions and knowledge spillovers: innovation-enhancing agglomeration effects and niche technology specificity pp. 827-847

Erik E. Lehmann, Julian Schenkenhofer and Silvio Vismara

Pathways to prosperity: A configurational analysis of national entrepreneurship pp. 849-867

Yangjie Huang, Yajing Bu and Ping Li

Is entrepreneurship in secular decline? pp. 869-878

Peter J. Buckley

Crowd and the gender gap in evaluating entrepreneurship pp. 879-900

Aurélien Quignon

Informal institutions meet organizational resilience: evidence from Chinese farmer cooperatives pp. 901-922

Zhidong Wu, Junyi Wan and Jia Wang

Banking competition and gender bank debt bias: evidence from Chinese SMEs pp. 923-948

Ettore Croci, Marta Degl’Innocenti and Si Zhou

Volume 66, issue 1, 2026

Survival of family start-ups seeking equity crowdfunding: family nuances in entrepreneurial teams pp. 1-25

Giovanna Campopiano, Valerio Lo Monaco, Tommaso Minola and Silvio Vismara

Mental health of entrepreneurs and daily recovery experiences pp. 27-48

Mathieu Le Moal, Roy Thurik, Olivier Torrès and Guillaume Soenen

Self-sabotaging behavior among poverty entrepreneurs: a transitions theory perspective pp. 49-70

Michael H. Morris, Donald F. Kuratko and Michael G. Goldsby

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size pp. 71-95

Ku-Hsieh Chen, Yingchao Zhang, Julie Ann Elston, Pei-Hwa Chen and Kang-Hua Hsu

Corruption, democracy, and entrepreneurship: the role of technology pp. 97-125

Gil Avnimelech and Yaron Zelekha

Planning ahead or dragging one’s feet? Organizational structure and high-growth events pp. 127-148

Antonio Martins-Neto and Alex Coad

Firm dynamics and productivity by age—evidence from Ireland pp. 149-173

Martina Lawless and Luke Rehill

Picking the right signals? Investor assessment of reputation signals of entrepreneurial teams and distributors in project-based enterprises pp. 175-194

Angelo Tomaselli, Salvatore Torrisi and Joris Ebbers

From ambition to evidence: a practical tool for startup impact assessment pp. 195-214

Christin Eckerle and Orestis Terzidis

The allocation of entrepreneurial talent: revisiting the role of formal and informal institutions pp. 215-231

Marek Hudik and Ondřej Dvouletý

Women-owned firms and discouragement to apply for credit: evidence before and during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 233-254

Giuliana Birindelli, Claudia Capozza and Antonia Patrizia Iannuzzi

Does the information content and value relevance of trade debt in early-stage firms help in raising external equity? pp. 255-322

Luís Barbosa, Marc Cowling and M. A. Gulamhussen

Social capital and SME innovations: the importance of knowledge combination and customer demands pp. 323-360

Hoa Do, Bach Nguyen and Manh Dao

Does acqui-hiring pay off? An empirical investigation of founder retention pp. 361-391

Nikolaus Seitz and Erik Lehmann

Policy failure in public support for small business innovation: the case of innovation vouchers in China pp. 393-421

Xiaoyong Dai and Peichao Guo

Entrepreneurial innovation ecosystems in the United States: configurational analysis of the high-tech economy pp. 423-449

Georgios Fotopoulos and Haifeng Qian

Giving something back: how reciprocal motivation drives entrepreneurs to contribute to their entrepreneurial ecosystem pp. 451-484

Johannes Hähnlein, Matthias Baum and Carolin Durst

ADHD and entrepreneurship: the role of perceived team conflict and gender on well-being pp. 485-512

Mi Hoang Tran, Johan Wiklund, Wei Yu and Ana Pérez-Luño

The growth paradox: mental health perceptions, ecosystem support, and growth aspirations of ADHD entrepreneurs pp. 513-530

D. Kariv, Mejía J. H., L. Cisneros, Kashy-Rosenbaum G. and F. Guiliani

Mixed blessings? Venture capitalists, angels, and the performance of equity crowdfunded firms pp. 531-550

Tan N. H. Do, Muhammad A. Cheema and Tom Vanacker