Small Business Economics
1992 - 2025
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Volume 64, issue 4, 2025
- Is sustainable entrepreneurship profitable? ESG disclosure and the financial performance of SMEs pp. 1535-1564

- Paul P. Momtaz and Isabel M. Parra
- How unemployment benefit duration shapes startup motivation and growth pp. 1565-1600

- Sebastian Camarero Garcia and Martin Murmann
- Investment grants and firms’ productivity: how effective is a grant booster shot? pp. 1601-1641

- Fernando Alexandre, Miguel Chaves and Miguel Portela
- The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival pp. 1643-1670

- Melanie Koch and Lukas Menkhoff
- Colors and Entrepreneurial Activities: An Exploratory Study pp. 1671-1677

- Nancy Hodges, Michael J. Kane and Albert Link
- Digital equity and government support during COVID-19 pp. 1679-1705

- Shabnam Kazembalaghi, Jerry Coakley, José M. Liñares-Zegarra and Silvio Vismara
- Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets pp. 1707-1721

- Natalia Cantet, Brian Feld and Estefany Peña-Rojas
- Blooming in the cracks: productive entrepreneurship amid institutional voids pp. 1723-1762

- Zeynab Aeeni, Mehrzad Saeedikiya, Kamal Sakhdari and Vahid J. Sadeghi
- (De)centralized governance and the value of platform-based new ventures: The moderating role of teams and transparency pp. 1763-1790

- Pierluigi Martino, Tom Vanacker, Igor Filatotchev and Cristiano Bellavitis
- Public sector entrepreneurship: an integrative review pp. 1791-1815

- Roberto Vivona, Tommy H. Clausen, Petter Gullmark, Emre Cinar and Mehmet Akif Demircioglu
- A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity pp. 1817-1847

- Martin Queissner, Lennard Stolz and Matthias Weiss
- Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation pp. 1849-1876

- Lucio Fuentelsaz, Consuelo González and Minerva González
- Outside or inside the firm? The impact of debt financing on the exit routes of start-up firms pp. 1877-1900

- Yuji Honjo, Yunosuke Iwaki and Masatoshi Kato
- Navigating challenges: lean inventory management and SMEs performance during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond pp. 1901-1927

- Vivien Lefebvre
- From one to many: education, diversity, and international experience in habitual vs. one-time founders pp. 1929-1951

- Francesca Sanguineti, Antonio Majocchi and Christian Lechner
- Financial performance of new circular economy companies in rural settings pp. 1953-1980

- Adriana Serrano Magdalena, Beatriz Cuellar Fernández and Yolanda Fuertes Callén
- Opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship: do linguistic structures matter? pp. 1981-2012

- Nabamita Dutta, Russell S. Sobel, Adam Stivers and Thor Lienhard
- Save for a rainy day? How regional household savings constrain entrepreneurship after a natural disaster pp. 2013-2033

- Jiabin Zhang, Joeri Hugten and Wouter Stam
- Entrepreneurs’ impatience and digital technologies pp. 2035-2060

- S. Basiglio, A. Ricci and M. Rossi
- Digital adoption and human capital upscaling: a regional study of the manufacturing sector pp. 2061-2103

- Roberto Moncada, Francesco Carbonero, Aldo Geuna and Luigi Riso
- Sexual orientation, entrepreneurship, and firm survival pp. 2105-2132

- Mikaela Backman, Christopher S. Carpenter, Erwan Dujeancourt and Samuel Mann
- You are only as strong as your weakest link: Founder and community social capital and start-up survival pp. 2133-2152

- Christopher Boudreaux, Steven W. Bradley, Anand Jha and Joao F. Mazzoni
- Gender attitudes and business venturing in low gender egalitarianism culture: a study of Egypt and Jordan pp. 2153-2177

- Bach Nguyen, Muntasir Shami and Fujia Li
- Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship pp. 2179-2195

- Jacob Rubæk Holm, Kristian Nielsen and Bram Timmermans
- CEO power and strategic persistence: evidence from post-IPO firms in China pp. 2197-2222

- Tang Wang, Dirk Libaers and Hao Jiao
- Small business stories in the formation of enterprise policy: a narrative policy analysis of the UK Bolton Committee pp. 2223-2238

- Robert Wapshott and Oliver Mallett
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
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