Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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

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Volume 52, issue 4, 2019

Born to be green: new insights into the economics and management of green entrepreneurship pp. 759-771

Pelin Demirel, Qian Li, Francesco Rentocchini and J. Pawan Tamvada

Green start-ups and local knowledge spillovers from clean and dirty technologies pp. 773-792

Alessandra Colombelli and Francesco Quatraro

Joining forces: collaboration patterns and performance of renewable energy innovators pp. 793-814

Jesper Christensen, Daniel Stefan Hain and Leticia Nogueira

The creation of cleantech startups at the local level: the role of knowledge availability and environmental awareness pp. 815-830

Giancarlo Giudici, Massimiliano Guerini and Cristina Rossi-Lamastra

Removing environmental market failure through support mechanisms: insights from green start-ups in the British, French and German energy sectors pp. 831-844

Christopher Ball and Markus Kittler

Location determinants of green technological entry: evidence from European regions pp. 845-858

Carlo Corradini

Green entrepreneurship in the sharing economy: utilising multiplicity of institutional logics pp. 859-876

Vadim Grinevich, Franz Huber, Mine Karataş-Özkan and Çağla Yavuz

From green technology development to green innovation: inducing regulatory adoption of pathogen detection technology for sustainable forestry pp. 877-889

Jeremy Hall, Stelvia Matos and Vernon Bachor

‘Better late than never’: the interplay between green technology and age for firm growth pp. 891-904

Riccardo Leoncini, Alberto Marzucchi, Sandro Montresor, Francesco Rentocchini and Ugo Rizzo

Investments, incentives, and innovation: geographical clustering dynamics as drivers of sustainable entrepreneurship pp. 905-927

Sanwar Sunny and Cheng Shu

Is green the new gold? Venture capital and green entrepreneurship pp. 929-950

Boris Mrkajic, Samuele Murtinu and Vittoria G. Scalera

Which green matters for whom? Greening and firm performance across age and size distribution of firms pp. 951-968

Mili Shrivastava and Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada

Volume 52, issue 3, 2019

Entrepreneurship in China pp. 563-572

Canfei He, Jiangyong Lu and Haifeng Qian

Persistent high-growth firms in China’s manufacturing pp. 573-594

Daniele Moschella, Federico Tamagni and Xiaodan Yu

Entrepreneurship and industrial clusters: evidence from China industrial census pp. 595-616

Xiwei Zhu, Ye Liu, Ming He, Deming Luo and Yiyun Wu

Good neighbors, bad neighbors: local knowledge spillovers, regional institutions and firm performance in China pp. 617-632

Shengjun Zhu, Canfei He and Qian Luo

What types of homeowners are more likely to be entrepreneurs? The evidence from China pp. 633-649

Jie Chen and Mingzhi Hu

How does the age of serial entrepreneurs influence their re-venture speed after a business failure? pp. 651-666

Song Lin and Shihui Wang

Search and execution: examining the entrepreneurial cognitions behind the lean startup model pp. 667-679

Xiaoming Yang, Sunny Li Sun and Xiangyang Zhao

Migrant entrepreneurship in China: entrepreneurial transition and firm performance pp. 681-696

Cathy Liu, Lin Ye and Bo Feng

Ethnic entrepreneurship, initial financing, and business performance in China pp. 697-712

Anthony Howell

Buddhist entrepreneurs and new venture performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial risk-taking pp. 713-727

Zhiyang Liu, Zuhui Xu, Zhao Zhou and Yong Li

Location-based tax incentives and entrepreneurial activities: evidence from Western Regional Development Strategy in China pp. 729-742

Zhikuo Liu, Huihang Wu and Jianfeng Wu

Financial development and the geographies of startup cities: evidence from China pp. 743-758

Fenghua Pan and Bofei Yang

Volume 52, issue 2, 2019

Three waves and counting: the rising tide of contextualization in entrepreneurship research pp. 319-330

Friederike Welter, Ted Baker and Katharine Wirsching

A plea for varieties of entrepreneurship pp. 331-343

Andrea M. Herrmann

The German Mittelstand: antithesis to Silicon Valley entrepreneurship? pp. 345-358

André Pahnke and Friederike Welter

Hidden champions and unicorns: a question of the context of human capital investment pp. 359-374

Erik Lehmann, Julian Schenkenhofer and Katharine Wirsching

Unleashing main street entrepreneurship: Crowdfunding, venture capital, and the democratization of new venture investments pp. 375-393

Regan M. Stevenson, Donald F. Kuratko and Jared Eutsler

Innovation by design pp. 395-403

Nancy J. Hodges and Albert Link

Entrepreneurship as a new liberal art pp. 405-418

Ted Baker and E. Erin Powell

The governance of entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 419-428

Massimo G. Colombo, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Erik Lehmann and MariPaz Salmador

Embracing an entrepreneurial ecosystem: an analysis of the governance of research joint ventures pp. 429-436

David B. Audretsch and Albert Link

Inducing heterogeneity in local entrepreneurial ecosystems: the role of MNEs pp. 437-454

Nachiket Bhawe and Shaker A. Zahra

Governance in entrepreneurial ecosystems: venture capitalists vs. technology parks pp. 455-484

Douglas Cumming, Jochen Christian Werth and Yelin Zhang

The governance of universities and the establishment of academic spin-offs pp. 485-504

Michele Meoli, Stefano Paleari and Silvio Vismara

Hierarchical and relational governance and the life cycle of entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 505-521

Alessandra Colombelli, Emilio Paolucci and Elisa Ughetto

The creation of high-tech ventures in entrepreneurial ecosystems: exploring the interactions among university knowledge, cooperative banks, and individual attitudes pp. 523-543

Niccolò Ghio, Massimiliano Guerini and Cristina Rossi-Lamastra

Entrepreneurial ecosystem governance: a principal investigator-centered governance framework pp. 545-562

James A. Cunningham, Matthias Menter and Katharine Wirsching

Volume 52, issue 1, 2019

Small Business Economics Journal Editor of the year award pp. 1-1

Zoltan Acs

Entrepreneurs’ human capital and growth aspirations: the moderating role of regional entrepreneurial culture pp. 3-25

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

Self-employment effects on regional growth: a bigger bang for a buck? pp. 27-45

Alexandra Tsvetkova, Mark Partridge and Michael Betz

Renascence after post-mortem: the choice of accelerated repeat entrepreneurship pp. 47-65

Maribel Guerrero and Iñaki Peña-Legazkue

Small business online loan crowdfunding: who gets funded and what determines the rate of interest? pp. 67-87

Reabetswe Kgoroeadira, Andrew Burke and André van Stel

Returns to balance in cognitive skills for the self-employed: evidence from 18 countries pp. 89-109

Pankaj C. Patel and Yoav Ganzach

Business owners, employees, and firm performance pp. 111-129

Mika Maliranta and Satu Nurmi

Where is my partner? The role of gender in the formation of entrepreneurial businesses pp. 131-151

Yisook Lim and Chan S. Suh

Neither absent nor too present: the effects of the engagement of parent universities on the performance of academic spin-offs pp. 153-173

Marco Ferretti, Salvatore Ferri, Raffaele Fiorentino, Adele Parmentola and Alessandro Sapio

Entrepreneurship capital spillovers at the local level pp. 175-191

José Luis Massón-Guerra and Pedro Ortín-Ángel

Differential performance of science park firms: an integrative model pp. 193-211

Kholekile L. Gwebu, Jeffrey Sohl and Jing Wang

Public R&D subsidies: collaborative versus individual place-based programs for SMEs pp. 213-240

Andrea Bellucci, Luca Pennacchio and Alberto Zazzaro

The certification effect of government R&D subsidies on innovative entrepreneurial firms’ access to bank finance: evidence from China pp. 241-259

Li Li, Jean Chen, Hongli Gao and Li Xie

Geographical proximity and open innovation of SMEs in Cyprus pp. 261-276

Chrystalla Kapetaniou and Soo Hee Lee

Relational capital in lending relationships: evidence from European family firms pp. 277-301

Marco Cucculelli, Valentina Peruzzi and Alberto Zazzaro

The financing of immigrant-owned firms in Canada pp. 303-317

Yuri Ostrovsky, Garnett Picot and Danny Leung