Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 49, issue 4, 2017

Hernando de Soto: recipient of the 2017 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 721-728

Martin Andersson and Daniel Waldenström

A tale of two civilizations in the era of Facebook and blockchain pp. 729-739

Hernando Soto

The role of local embeddedness and non-local knowledge in entrepreneurial activity pp. 741-762

Mikhail Martynovich

Effects of federal socioeconomic contracting preferences pp. 763-783

Grant H. Lewis

Dynamic entrepreneurship: On the performance of U.S. research joint ventures pp. 785-797

Jeremy Bray and Albert Link

High-tech start-up firm survival originating from a combined use of internal resources pp. 799-824

Chun Yang, Bart Bossink and Peter Peverelli

Just about money? CEO satisfaction and firm performance in small family firms pp. 825-839

Lucía Garcés-Galdeano, Martin Larraza-Kintana, Cristina Cruz and Ignacio Contín-Pilart

Parents’ performance in entrepreneurship as a “double-edged sword” for the intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurship pp. 841-864

Giuseppe Criaco, Philipp Sieger, Karl Wennberg, Francesco Chirico and Tommaso Minola

Small Business vulnerability to floods and the effects of disaster loans pp. 865-888

Meri Davlasheridze and Pinar C. Geylani

Active labor market programs’ effects on entrepreneurship and unemployment pp. 889-918

Catherine Laffineur, Saulo Dubard Barbosa, Alain Fayolle and Emeran Nziali

Effects of extent and diversity of alliancing on innovation: the moderating role of firm newness pp. 919-936

Marcus Wagner and Wilfried Zidorn

Evaluation of the Spanish flat rate for young self-employed workers pp. 937-951

Begoña Cueto, Matías Mayor and Patricia Suárez

Volume 49, issue 3, 2017

Does easy start-up formation hamper incumbents’ R&D investment? pp. 513-531

Luca Colombo, H. Dawid, Mariacristina Piva and Marco Vivarelli

“Misfits,” “stars,” and immigrant entrepreneurship pp. 533-557

Shulamit Kahn, Giulia La Mattina and Megan MacGarvie

Investigating a neglected part of Schumpeter’s creative army: what drives new-to-the-market innovation in micro-enterprises? pp. 559-577

Stephen Roper and Nola Hewitt-Dundas

Should securities regulation promote equity crowdfunding? pp. 579-593

Lars Hornuf and Armin Schwienbacher

Regional entrepreneurship capital and firm production pp. 595-607

José Massón-Guerra and Pedro Ortín-Ángel

Exchange rate fluctuations, firm size, and export behavior: an empirical investigation pp. 609-625

Abdul Rashid and Shahid Mahmood Waqar

Health insurance and the supply of entrepreneurs: new evidence from the affordable care act pp. 627-646

James Bailey

Public health insurance, individual health, and entry into self-employment pp. 647-669

Frank Fossen and Johannes König

Industrial policy evaluation in the presence of spillovers pp. 671-686

Augusto Cerqua and Guido Pellegrini

National culture, effectuation, and new venture performance: global evidence from student entrepreneurs pp. 687-709

Anastasiia Laskovaia, Galina Shirokova and Michael H. Morris

Erratum to: National culture, effectuation, and new venture performance: global evidence from student entrepreneurs pp. 711-715

Anastasiia Laskovaia, Galina Shirokova and Michael H. Morris

Steven Koltai with Matthew Muspratt (2016) “Peace through Entrepreneurship: Investing in a Startup Culture for Security and Development” pp. 717-720

Roger R. Stough

Volume 49, issue 2, 2017

Do entrepreneurs really earn less? pp. 251-272

Alina Sorgner, Michael Fritsch and Alexander Kritikos

How young firms achieve growth: reconciling the roles of growth motivation and innovative activities pp. 273-293

Alexander McKelvie, Anna Brattström and Karl Wennberg

Product market competition and access to credit pp. 295-318

Vittoria Cerasi, Alessandro Fedele and Raffaele Miniaci

Cost of capital and public loan guarantees to small firms pp. 319-337

Elisa Ughetto, Giuseppe Scellato and Marc Cowling

The influence of the CEO’s business education on the performance of hybrid organizations: the case of the global microfinance industry pp. 339-354

Daudi Pascal, Roy Mersland and N. Mori

Entrepreneurial spawning and knowledge-based perspective: a meta-analysis pp. 355-378

Robert P. Garrett, Chao Miao, Shanshan Qian and Tae Jun Bae

As the market churns: productivity and firm exit in developing countries pp. 379-403

Gemechu Aga and David Francis

Factors affecting the long-term survival of eBay ventures: a longitudinal study pp. 405-419

Dawn Gregg and Madhavan Parthasarathy

Researching the entrepreneurial behaviour of new and existing ventures in European agriculture pp. 421-444

Emilio Pindado and Mercedes Sánchez

Exploring the link between innovation and growth in Chilean firms pp. 445-467

Caterina Santi and Pietro Santoleri

Individual and place-based drivers of self-employment in Chile pp. 469-492

Felix Modrego, Dusan Paredes and Gianni Romaní

Responsibility or autonomy: children and the probability of self-employment in the USA pp. 493-512

Gustavo Caballero Orozco

Volume 49, issue 1, 2017

The lineages of the entrepreneurial ecosystem approach pp. 1-10

Zoltan Acs, Erik Stam, David B. Audretsch and Allan O’Connor

Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems pp. 11-30

Ross Brown and Colin Mason

Searching for the existence of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a regional cross-section growth regression approach pp. 31-54

K. Bruns, N. Bosma, Mark Sanders and M. Schramm

The digital entrepreneurial ecosystem pp. 55-73

Fiona Sussan and Zoltan Acs

The campus as entrepreneurial ecosystem: the University of Chicago pp. 75-95

David J. Miller and Zoltan Acs

The adaptive life cycle of entrepreneurial ecosystems: the biotechnology cluster pp. 97-117

Philip E. Auerswald and Lokesh Dani

The paradox of new venture legitimation within an entrepreneurial ecosystem pp. 119-140

Donald F. Kuratko, Greg Fisher, James M. Bloodgood and Jeffrey S. Hornsby

The entrepreneur’s experiential diversity and entrepreneurial performance pp. 141-161

Anne Spanjer and Arjen van Witteloostuijn

Effects of foreign acquisitions on R&D and high-skill activities pp. 163-187

Kent Eliasson, Pär Hansson and Markus Lindvert

Productive and harmful entrepreneurship in a knowledge economy pp. 189-202

Jürgen Antony, Torben Klarl and Erik Lehmann

Integrating psychological approaches to entrepreneurship: the Entrepreneurial Personality System (EPS) pp. 203-231

Martin Obschonka and Michael Stuetzer

Job dissatisfaction of the self-employed in Indonesia pp. 233-249

Illoong Kwon and Kitae Sohn

Volume 48, issue 4, 2017

Pricing shares in equity crowdfunding pp. 795-811

Lars Hornuf and Matthias Neuenkirch

Cross-national differences in entrepreneurial activity: role of culture and institutional factors pp. 813-842

Ratan J. S. Dheer

When members of entrepreneurial teams differ: linking diversity in individual-level entrepreneurial orientation to team performance pp. 843-859

Tobias Kollmann, Christoph Stöckmann, Yvonne Meves and Julia M. Kensbock

Instant gratification: temporal discounting and self-employment pp. 861-882

Marcus T. Wolfe and Pankaj C. Patel

Drivers of SME performance: a holistic and multivariate approach pp. 883-911

Olubunmi Ipinnaiye, Declan Dineen and Helena Lenihan

Drivers of high-quality entrepreneurship: what changes did the crisis bring about? pp. 913-930

Ioannis Giotopoulos, Alexandra Kontolaimou and Aggelos Tsakanikas

Family ownership: does it matter for funding and success of corporate innovations? pp. 931-951

Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan and Jenniffer Solórzano Mosquera

Resource endowment and opportunity cost effects along the stages of entrepreneurship pp. 953-976

Tomasz Mickiewicz, Frederick Wedzerai Nyakudya, Nicholas Theodorakopoulos and Mark Hart

Prospect theory and the effects of bankruptcy laws on entrepreneurial aspirations pp. 977-997

Saul Estrin, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Anna Rebmann

“Glocal” ties: banking development and SEs’ export entry pp. 999-1020

Alessia Lo Turco and Daniela Maggioni

Information technology clusters and regional growth in America, 1970–1980 pp. 1021-1046

Florencia Garcia-Vicente, Daniel Garcia-Swartz and Martin Campbell-Kelly

Self-employment amongst migrant groups: new evidence from England and Wales pp. 1047-1069

Ken Clark, Stephen Drinkwater and Catherine Robinson

Volume 48, issue 3, 2017

Gender differences in entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship: an empirical analysis pp. 447-486

Takanori Adachi and Takanori Hisada

Entrepreneurship as a twenty-first century skill: entrepreneurial alertness and intention in the transition to adulthood pp. 487-501

Martin Obschonka, Kai Hakkarainen, Kirsti Lonka and Katariina Salmela-Aro

Who instigates university–industry collaborations? University scientists versus firm employees pp. 503-524

Rajeev Goel, Devrim Göktepe-Hultén and Christoph Grimpe

The governance environment and innovative SMEs pp. 525-541

Judy Yang

Top manager characteristics, agglomeration economies and firm performance pp. 543-558

Cui Zhang

E-business and fast growth SMEs pp. 559-576

Rui Bi, Robert M. Davison and Kosmas X. Smyrnios

Fractionalization, entrepreneurship, and the institutional environment for entrepreneurship pp. 577-597

Sefa Awaworyi Churchill

Foreign direct investment via M&A and domestic entrepreneurship: blessing or curse? pp. 599-612

Seçil Hülya Danakol, Saul Estrin, Paul Reynolds and Utz Weitzel

Does foreign direct investment stimulate new firm creation? In search of spillovers through industrial and geographical linkages pp. 613-631

Laixiang Sun, In Hyeock Lee and Eunsuk Hong

What does (not) characterize persistent corporate high-growth? pp. 633-656

Stefano Bianchini, Giulio Bottazzi and Federico Tamagni

Does ICT adoption improve access to credit for small enterprises? pp. 657-679

Lucia Dalla Pellegrina, Serena Frazzoni, Zeno Rotondi and Andrea Vezzulli

A new perspective on entrepreneurial regions: linking cultural identity with latent and manifest entrepreneurship pp. 681-697

David B. Audretsch, Martin Obschonka, Samuel D. Gosling and Jeff Potter

Determinants of the growth aspiration: a quantitative study of Venezuelan entrepreneurs pp. 699-726

Raquel Puente, María Antonia Cervilla, Carlos Giovanni González Espitia and Nunzia Auletta

Determinants of the entrepreneurial gender gap in Latin America pp. 727-752

Luisa Bernat Díaz, German Lambardi and Paola Palacios

Internationalization choices and Italian firm performance during the crisis pp. 753-769

Stefano Costa, Carmine Pappalardo and Claudio Vicarelli

Ownership structure, insider behavior, and IPO performance of SMEs in China pp. 771-793

S. Ramakrishna Velamuri and Wilson Liu

Volume 48, issue 2, 2017

Entrepreneurship, innovation and enterprise dynamics pp. 273-278

Mariagrazia Squicciarini

Ideation, entrepreneurship, and innovation pp. 279-285

Albert Link

Risk, balanced skills and entrepreneurship pp. 287-302

Chihmao Hsieh, Simon Parker and Mirjam Praag

The impact of habitual entrepreneurial experience on new firm closure outcomes pp. 303-321

Sandra Gottschalk, Francis J. Greene and Bettina Müller

The private financial gains to entrepreneurship: Is it a good use of public money to encourage individuals to become entrepreneurs? pp. 323-329

Thomas Astebro

R&D profitability: the role of risk and Knightian uncertainty pp. 331-343

Sara Amoroso, Pietro Moncada-Paternò-Castello and Antonio Vezzani

The impact of public R&D subsidy on small firm productivity: evidence from Korean SMEs pp. 345-360

Beom Cheol Cin, Young Jun Kim and Nicholas S. Vonortas

Institutional determinants of university spin-off quantity and quality: a longitudinal, multilevel, cross-country study pp. 361-391

Riccardo Fini, Kun Fu, Marius Tuft Mathisen, Einar Rasmussen and Mike Wright

Do micro start-ups fuel job creation? Cross-country evidence from the DynEmp Express database pp. 393-412

Chiara Criscuolo, Peter Gal and Carlo Menon

What do firms know? What do they produce? A new look at the relationship between patenting profiles and patterns of product diversification pp. 413-429

Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi and Daniele Moschella

ICT as facilitator of internationalisation in small- and medium-sized firms pp. 431-446

Eva Hagsten and Patricia Kotnik

Volume 48, issue 1, 2017

Philippe Aghion: recipient of the 2016 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 1-8

Zoltan Acs, Pontus Braunerhjelm and Charlie Karlsson

Entrepreneurship and growth: lessons from an intellectual journey pp. 9-24

Philippe Aghion

My first employee: an empirical investigation pp. 25-45

Alex Coad, Kristian Nielsen and Bram Timmermans

What influences environmental entrepreneurship? A multilevel analysis of the determinants of entrepreneurs’ environmental orientation pp. 47-69

Jacob Hörisch, Jana Kollat and Steven A. Brieger

Experience and gender effects in acquisition experiment with value messages pp. 71-97

Daniela Di Cagno, Arianna Galliera, W. Güth, Noemi Pace and Luca Panaccione

Solving the knowledge filter puzzle: absorptive capacity, entrepreneurship and regional development pp. 99-114

Haifeng Qian and Hyejin Jung

Stock-financed M&As of newly listed firms pp. 115-134

Andrea Signori and Silvio Vismara

Altruistic investment decision behavior in early-stage ventures pp. 135-152

Kim Klyver, Noel J. Lindsay, Suleiman K. “Sul” Kassicieh and Gary Hancock

Participation inertia in R&D tax incentive and subsidy programs pp. 153-177

Isabel Busom, Beatriz Corchuelo Martínez-Azúa and Ester Martínez-Ros

Steve Jobs or No Jobs? Entrepreneurial activity and performance among Danish college dropouts and graduates pp. 179-197

Guido Buenstorf, Kristian Nielsen and Bram Timmermans

The impact of family ownership on innovation: evidence from the German machine tool industry pp. 199-212

Carolin Decker and Christina Günther

Does a one-tier board affect firms’ performances? Evidences from Italian unlisted enterprises pp. 213-224

Carlo Bellavite Pellegrini and Emiliano Sironi

Taking care of business: the impact of culture and gender on entrepreneurs’ blended value creation goals pp. 225-257

Diana M. Hechavarría, Siri Terjesen, Amy E. Ingram, Maija Renko, Rachida Justo and Amanda Elam

Gender differences in financial inclusion amongst entrepreneurs in Zimbabwe pp. 259-272

Terrence Kairiza, Philemon Kiprono and Vengesai Magadzire