Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 64, issue 3, 2025

Gender homophily and local bias in equity crowdfunding pp. 805-836

Dandan Wang and Jörg Prokop

‘In the company of cheerful ladies’: whether female entrepreneurs are more productive? pp. 837-861

Tomasz Mickiewicz and Bach Nguyen

Culture and social entrepreneurship: the role of value-practice misalignment pp. 863-887

Katrina M. Brownell, Diana M. Hechavarria, Colleen C. Robb and Jill Kickul

Signaling and herding in reward-based crowdfunding pp. 889-916

Gabriel Rodríguez-Garnica, María Gutiérrez-Urtiaga and Josep A. Tribo

Firms’ borrowing costs and neighbors’ flood risk pp. 917-933

Thomas Bassetti, Lorenzo Dal Maso and Valentina Pieroni

Linking biases and paradoxes in the family entrepreneurship context: an integrative framework for future research pp. 935-956

Minas N. Kastanakis, Katerina Kampouri, Christian Linder, Michael Christofi and Alfredo Massis

Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs pp. 957-987

Brett R. Devine

Advisors for micro-entrepreneurs: is one as good as another in accessing alternative finance? pp. 989-1033

Maria Gaia Soana, Doriana Cucinelli and Beatrice Ronchini

Organizing transactions between entrepreneurs and human capital resources under Knightian uncertainty pp. 1035-1055

Ryan W. Angus and Matthew A. Barlow

Decoding value exchange in entrepreneurial ecosystems through a service-dominant lens pp. 1057-1081

Colin Donaldson, Robert Newbery, Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent and Andreas Kallmuenzer

Regional embeddedness is the key: Quantity and quality of regional business opportunity perception pp. 1083-1109

Jessica Birkholz

Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being pp. 1111-1139

Teemu Kautonen, Aracely Soto-Simeone and Ewald Kibler

From independent inventor to inventor entrepreneur: an application of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship pp. 1141-1161

Kevin A. Miceli, Shirish Sundaresan, Atul Nerkar and Tian Chen

Government procurement contracts, external audit certification, and financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises pp. 1163-1231

Kelvin Mugambi Kinyua, Frederick Kibon Changwony and Kevin Campbell

Financial statement audit and regulatory focus in equity crowdfunding decisions pp. 1233-1258

Regan Stevenson, Jared Eutsler, Bradley Lang and Jesse C. Robertson

Intensive personal mentoring: accelerators’ secret sauce pp. 1259-1284

Eyal Rechter and Gil Avnimelech

Risky business: venture capital, pivoting and scaling pp. 1285-1319

Pehr-Johan Norbäck, Lars Persson and Joacim Tåg

Token governance in initial coin offerings: Implications of token retention and resale restrictions for ICO success pp. 1321-1359

Johannes Fuchs and Paul P. Momtaz

Keeping pace with the digital transformation — exploring the digital orientation of SMEs pp. 1361-1385

Kevin Escoz Barragan and Felix Simon Rudolf Becker

Hiring opportunities for new firms and the business cycle pp. 1387-1413

Udo Brixy and Martin Murmann

Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation pp. 1415-1431

Francisco J. Santos, Carmen Guzmán and Lidia Valiente

Forgive me not? Racial and institutional disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness pp. 1433-1461

Vladimir Kotomin, Wyatt Frere and Ruby Morr

Political connections and credit access: evidence from small businesses and microenterprises in India pp. 1463-1491

Malik Altaf Hussain and Malvika Tyagi

Cyberattack, cyber risk mitigation capabilities, and firm productivity in Kenya pp. 1493-1514

Godsway Korku Tetteh and Chuks Otioma

“Exhale the old and inhale the new”: Comparing the impact of anti-corruption campaign on entrepreneurship and exiting markets in China pp. 1515-1534

Tie Wei, Huaihong Pan, Bin Wei and Chengyu Shi

Volume 64, issue 2, 2025

The role of culture in family firms pp. 261-278

Mario Daniele Amore and Danny Miller

Are family firms green? pp. 279-306

Ivan Miroshnychenko, Danny Miller, Alfredo Massis and Isabelle Breton-Miller

Hidden costs of entering self-employment: the spouse’s psychological well-being pp. 307-332

Safiya Mukhtar Alshibani, Ingebjørg Kristoffersen and Thierry Volery

Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries pp. 333-351

Johannes Kleinhempel and Saul Estrin

Do institutional dimensions matter at different stages of the entrepreneurial process? A multi-country study pp. 353-381

Claudia Alvarez, Tatiana Lopez and David Urbano

The cost of health insurance and entry into entrepreneurship pp. 383-405

Frank Fossen, Mobarak Hossain, Sankar Mukhopadhyay and Peter Toth

Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage pp. 407-431

Steffen Paust, Steffen Korsgaard and Claus Thrane

The psychological strain of becoming self-employed: a longitudinal investigation of honeymoon-hangover effects pp. 433-449

Jingjing Qu, Jun Li and Yannis Georgellis

Untangling the complexity of innovativeness in new ventures: The interplay between causal entrepreneurial processes and social capital pp. 451-473

Parisa Haim Faridian, Donald Neubaum and Siri Terjesen

Was Robert Gibrat right? A test based on the graphical model methodology pp. 475-488

Marco Guerzoni, Luigi Riso and Marco Vivarelli

Heterogeneity in PhD entrepreneurship: strategic alignment of institutional, organisational, and individual factors pp. 489-510

Alessandro Muscio and Fumi Kitagawa

Learning to ride the high growth “Rollercoaster”: the role of publicly funded business accelerator programmes pp. 511-530

Ross Brown and Rachael Rees-Jones

Firm export, trade war, and R&D investment of family firm pp. 531-547

Jiannan Yu, Yajuan Mao and Ping Guo

The role of cognitive legitimacy in social entrepreneurship: a multilevel analysis pp. 549-573

Xing Li, Wanxiang Cai and Niels Bosma

Does equity crowdfunding benefit ventures located in high unemployment regions? pp. 575-598

Aristogenis Lazos

A racial identity approach to entrepreneurship: the lived experiences of African American and Black entrepreneurs pp. 599-623

Susana C. Santos, Eric W. Liguori, Michael H. Morris and SherRhonda R. Gibbs

State responses during the COVID-19 pandemic and their impacts on small businesses pp. 625-643

Cathy Yang Liu and Luísa Nazareno

Impact of financial support expansion on restaurant entries and exits during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 645-689

Masato Oikawa and Koichiro Onishi

European SMEs’ growth: the role of market-based finance and public financial support pp. 691-727

Simone Boccaletti, Annalisa Ferrando, Emanuele Rossi and Monica Rossolini

Financial Access and Entrepreneurship by Gender: Evidence from Rural India pp. 729-754

Sandhya Garg, Samarth Gupta and Sushanta Mallick

Effects of immigration on native entrepreneurship in the US: an analysis of self-employment over 1980–2018 pp. 755-773

Bulent Unel

Redefining the entrepreneurial ecosystem in China from a network-based view: A review and proposal for future research pp. 775-803

Li Cai, Naiheng Sheng, Garry D. Bruton and Haijing Yu

Volume 64, issue 1, 2025

Learning from success and failure: implications for entrepreneurs, SMEs, and policy pp. 1-10

Esteban Lafuente, Rodrigo Rabetino and Juan Carlos Leiva

The forgetting curve in entrepreneurship: decaying learning benefits of past entrepreneurial experience pp. 11-36

Yancy Vaillant, Ronald Mora-Esquivel and Marco Alvarado

Learning from failure: do narcissists learn? pp. 37-58

Ahmed Sewaid, Florina Silaghi and Miguel García-Cestona

Re-entrepreneurial experience and learning during challenging times pp. 59-92

Jorge Espinoza-Benavides and Maribel Guerrero

The two faces of hierarchy: CEO power and TMT learning diversity in technology venture innovation pp. 93-112

Henrik Wesemann, Charlotta Sirén, Vivianna Fang He, Dietmar Grichnik and Joakim Wincent

The role of experience and diversity on research consortia’ performance: an exploratory approach pp. 113-132

Inés Alegre, Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent and Victor Martin-Sanchez

How does team learning from failure facilitate new product performance? The double-edged moderating effect of collective efficacy pp. 133-155

Xiangming (Tommy) Tao, Catherine L. Wang, Paul J. A. Robson and Mathew (Mat) Hughes

Learning from different types of failure: evidence from non-severe and severe work accidents in SMEs pp. 157-180

Esteban Lafuente

Embracing the “fail fast and learn fast” mindset: conceptualizing learning from failure in knowledge-intensive SMEs pp. 181-202

Nikolina Koporcic, David Sjödin, Marko Kohtamäki and Vinit Parida

When do firms learn? Learning before versus after exporting pp. 203-219

Ferran Vendrell-Herrero, Emanuel Gomes, Christian K. Darko and David W. Lehman

University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources pp. 221-237

Jose M Sallan and Oriol Lordan

Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation pp. 239-258

Sergey Alexander Anokhin, Manuel Hess and Joakim Wincent

Correction: Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation pp. 259-259

Sergey Alexander Anokhin, Manuel Hess and Joakim Wincent