Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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

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Volume 54, issue 4, 2020

An equity crowdfunding research agenda: evidence from stakeholder participation in the rulemaking process pp. 907-932

Michael E. Cummings, Hans Rawhouser, Silvio Vismara and Erin L. Hamilton

An effectual leadership perspective for developing rural entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 933-949

Morgan P. Miles and Mark Morrison

Regional differences in effects of publicly sponsored R&D grants on SME performance pp. 951-969

Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall and Josefin Videnord

Emergence of entrepreneurial populations: a feature dimensionality approach pp. 971-989

Min Liu and Arjen Witteloostuijn

Home-based family firms, spousal ownership and business exit: a transaction cost perspective pp. 991-1006

Melih Madanoglu, Esra Memili and Alfredo De Massis

Combining Kohonen maps and prior payment behavior for small enterprise default prediction pp. 1007-1039

Francesco Ciampi, Valentina Cillo and Fabio Fiano

The moderating role of education in the relationship between FDI and entrepreneurial activity pp. 1041-1059

Jenny Berrill, Martha O’Hagan-Luff and André van Stel

Exploring the impact of R&D on patenting activity in small women-owned and minority-owned entrepreneurial firms pp. 1061-1066

Albert Link and Martijn van Hasselt

SME policies as a barrier to growth of SMEs pp. 1067-1106

Daisuke Tsuruta

Human capital and SME growth: the mediating role of reasons to start a business pp. 1107-1121

Aliaa El Shoubaki, Issam Laguir and Matthijs den Besten

Women’s business ownership and women’s entrepreneurship through the lens of U.S. federal policies pp. 1123-1152

Sheela Pandey and Alejandro S. Amezcua

Innovation and employment in manufacturing and service firms in Ghana pp. 1153-1164

Priscilla Baffour, Festus Turkson, Agyapomaa Gyeke-Dako, Abena Oduro and Emmanuel Abbey

Gender, small firm ownership, and credit access: some insights from India pp. 1165-1181

Kausik Chaudhuri, Subash Sasidharan and Rajesh Raj

The advantages of formalizing networks: new evidence from Italian SMEs pp. 1183-1200

Maurizio Cisi, Francesco Devicienti, Alessandro Manello and Davide Vannoni

Declining business dynamism in Belgium pp. 1201-1239

Gert Bijnens and Jozef Konings

Volume 54, issue 3, 2020

Effectual exchange: from entrepreneurship to the disciplines and beyond pp. 605-619

Gry Agnete Alsos, Tommy Høyvarde Clausen, René Mauer, Stuart Read and Saras D. Sarasvathy

A structured literature review and suggestions for future effectuation research pp. 621-639

Denis A. Grégoire and Naïma Cherchem

An empirical investigation of determinants of effectual and causal decision logics in online and high-tech start-up firms pp. 641-664

Tobias Frese, Ingmar Geiger and Florian Dost

How shared pre-start-up moments of transition and cognitions contextualize effectual and causal decisions in entrepreneurial teams pp. 665-688

Anne Tryba and Denise Fletcher

The measurement of effectuation: highlighting research tensions and opportunities for the future pp. 689-720

Alexander McKelvie, Gaylen N. Chandler, Dawn R. DeTienne and Anette Johansson

Effectuations, social bricolage and causation in the response to a natural disaster pp. 721-750

Reed Nelson and Edmilson Lima

Toward a theory of affordable loss pp. 751-774

Richard A. Martina

Strategic decision-making in SMEs: effectuation, causation, and the absence of strategy pp. 775-790

Adrian Hauser, Fabian Eggers and Stefan Güldenberg

Comparing effectuation to discovery-driven planning, prescriptive entrepreneurship, business planning, lean startup, and design thinking pp. 791-818

Yashar Mansoori and Martin Lackéus

The rise of art movements: an effectual process model of Picasso’s and Braque’s give-and-take during the creation of Cubism (1908–1914) pp. 819-842

Antoni Olive-Tomas and Susan S. Harmeling

Configurations of effectuation, causation, and bricolage: implications for firm growth paths pp. 843-864

Wenwen An, Charles-Clemens Rüling, Xin Zheng and Jianqi Zhang

Effectual control orientation and innovation performance: clarifying implications in the corporate context pp. 865-882

Sebastian Markus Szambelan and Yi Dragon Jiang

Does practice make micro-entrepreneurs perfect? An investigation of expertise acquisition using effectuation and causation pp. 883-905

Nadeera Ranabahu and Mary Barrett

Volume 54, issue 2, 2020

Entrepreneurship and failure: two sides of the same coin? pp. 373-382

Johan Eklund, Nadine Levratto and Giovanni Ramello

Productive entrepreneurship and the effectiveness of insolvency legislation: a cross-country study pp. 383-404

Kun Fu, Karl Wennberg and Björn Falkenhall

Bankruptcy delay and firms’ dynamics pp. 405-419

Alessandro Melcarne and Giovanni Ramello

Early stage SME bankruptcy: does the local banking market matter? pp. 421-436

Giuseppe Arcuri and Nadine Levratto

Destructive entrepreneurship in the small business sector: bankruptcy fraud in Sweden, 1830–2010 pp. 437-457

Marcus Box, Karl Gratzer and Xiang Lin

Post-crisis firm survival, business model changes, and learning: evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry pp. 459-474

Marco Cucculelli and Valentina Peruzzi

Entrepreneurship after displacement pp. 475-494

Kristina Nyström

Knowledge, entrepreneurship and regional transformation: contributing to the Schumpeterian and evolutionary perspective on the relationships between them pp. 495-501

Martin Henning and Maureen McKelvey

Knowledge-intensive innovative entrepreneurship integrating Schumpeter, evolutionary economics, and innovation systems pp. 503-522

Franco Malerba and Maureen McKelvey

Science and industry evolution: evidence from the first 50 years of the German laser industry pp. 523-538

Guido Buenstorf and Dominik P. Heinisch

Productive opportunities, uncertainty, and science-based firm emergence pp. 539-560

Marcela Miozzo and Lori DiVito

The role of industry variety in the creation of innovative start-ups in Italy pp. 561-573

Roberto Antonietti and Francesca Gambarotto

From knowledge to business ecosystems: emergence of an entrepreneurial activity during knowledge replication pp. 575-587

Amel Attour and Nathalie Lazaric

Workers’ participation in regional economic change following establishment closure pp. 589-604

Lars-Fredrik Andersson, Therese Danley, Rikard Eriksson and Martin Henning

Volume 54, issue 1, 2020

Small Business Economics Journal Editor of the Year Award pp. 1-2

Zoltan Acs

Picking the lock: how universal healthcare programs influence entrepreneurial activities pp. 3-24

Yu-Chen Kuo and Jia-Huey Lin

Ethnic diversity and small business venturing pp. 25-41

Christopher Boudreaux

Corporate governance in entrepreneurial firms: a systematic review and research agenda pp. 43-74

Hezun Li, Siri Terjesen and Timurs Umans

Equity crowdfunding: a systematic review of the literature pp. 75-118

Kazem Mochkabadi and Christine K. Volkmann

Lack of access to external finance and SME labor productivity: does project quality matter? pp. 119-134

Victor Motta

The impact of science parks on small- and medium-sized enterprises’ productivity distributions: the case of Taiwan and South Korea pp. 135-153

Syed Hasan, Henry Klaiber and Ian Sheldon

Cultural transmission and persistence of entrepreneurship pp. 155-172

Gonzalo Olcina, E. M. Tur and L. Escriche

Borrower discouragement: the role of informal turndowns pp. 173-188

Anoosheh Rostamkalaei, Miwako Nitani and Allan Riding

Succession planning in family firms: family governance practices, board of directors, and emotions pp. 189-207

Ine Umans, Nadine Lybaert, Tensie Steijvers and Wim Voordeckers

How negative aspiration performance gaps affect innovation efficiency pp. 209-233

Montserrat Manzaneque, Alfonso A. Rojo-Ramírez, Julio Diéguez-Soto and Maria J. Martínez-Romero

The role of affect in entrepreneurial orientation pp. 235-256

Indy Bernoster, Jinia Mukerjee and Roy Thurik

Promoting cooperation in innovation ecosystems: evidence from European traditional manufacturing SMEs pp. 257-283

Dragana Radicic, Geoffrey Pugh and David Douglas

Financial constraints and public funding of eco-innovation: empirical evidence from European SMEs pp. 285-302

Grazia Cecere, Nicoletta Corrocher and Maria Mancusi

Entry and exit of small self-employed businesses in Korea’s service industries pp. 303-322

Nakil Sung and Jaekyung Kim

Drivers of growth in Tunisia: young firms vs incumbents pp. 323-340

Hassan Arouri, Adel Ben Youssef, Francesco Quatraro and Marco Vivarelli

Third-party signals in equity crowdfunding: the role of prior financing pp. 341-365

Simon Kleinert, Christine Volkmann and Marc Grünhagen

Correction to: Third-party signals in equity crowdfunding: the role of prior financing pp. 367-372

Simon Kleinert, Christine Volkmann and Marc Grünhagen