Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 45, issue 3, 2015

R&D policies for young SMEs: input and output effects pp. 465-485

Dirk Czarnitzki and Julie Delanote

The effects of acquisition on the growth of new technology-based firms: Do different types of acquirers matter? pp. 487-504

Jing Xiao

Export-oriented entrepreneurship and regional economic growth pp. 505-522

José González-Pernía and Iñaki Peña-Legazkue

Entrepreneurial networking capacity of cluster firms: a social network perspective on how shared resources enhance firm performance pp. 523-541

Huanmei Li, Graciela Corral de Zubielqui and Allan O’Connor

The patterns of venture capital investment in Europe pp. 543-560

Fabio Bertoni, Massimo Colombo and Anita Quas

Understanding the decline in self-employment among individuals nearing retirement pp. 561-580

Bradley Heim

Determinants of microenterprise performance in Nepal pp. 581-594

Ajay Thapa

Firm size and spillover effects from foreign direct investment: the case of Romania pp. 595-611

Karolien Lenaerts and Bruno Merlevede

Do labor tax rebates facilitate firm growth? An empirical study on French establishments in the manufacturing industry, 2004–2011 pp. 613-641

Aziza Garsaa and Nadine Levratto

Productivity, market selection, and corporate growth: comparative evidence across US and Europe pp. 643-672

Giovanni Dosi, Daniele Moschella, Emanuele Pugliese and Federico Tamagni

Performance of small- and medium-sized enterprises in services trade: evidence from French firms pp. 673-702

Iza Lejárraga and Harald Oberhofer

Volume 45, issue 1, 2015

Understanding the dynamics of entrepreneurship through framework approaches pp. 1-13

Donald Kuratko, Michael Morris and Minet Schindehutte

A sequential choice model of family business succession pp. 15-37

Timothy Mathews and Tim Blumentritt

The medium-term effect of R&D on firm growth pp. 39-62

Marco Capasso, Tania Treibich and Bart Verspagen

Entry and exit dynamics of nascent business owners pp. 63-84

Vera Rocha, Anabela Carneiro and Celeste Varum

ADHD-like behavior and entrepreneurial intentions pp. 85-101

Ingrid Verheul, Joern Block, Katrin Burmeister-Lamp, Roy Thurik, Henning Tiemeier and Roxana Turturea

Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory pp. 103-128

Robert Huggins and Piers Thompson

Productivity growth persistence: firm strategies, size and system properties pp. 129-147

Cristiano Antonelli, Francesco Crespi and Giuseppe Scellato

Financial reporting quality and the cost of debt of SMEs pp. 149-164

Heidi Vander Bauwhede, Michiel De Meyere and Philippe Van Cauwenberge

Subsidized start-ups out of unemployment: a comparison to regular business start-ups pp. 165-190

Marco Caliendo, Jens Hogenacker, Steffen Künn and Frank Wießner

Entrepreneurship and the intergenerational transmission of values pp. 191-213

Michael Wyrwich

Corporate governance, credit ratings and the capital structure of Greek SME and large listed firms pp. 215-244

Apostolos Dasilas and Nicolas Papasyriopoulos

Volume 44, issue 4, 2015

Shaker A. Zahra: pioneering entrepreneurship scholar pp. 721-725

David Audretsch

Corporate entrepreneurship as knowledge creation and conversion: the role of entrepreneurial hubs pp. 727-735

Shaker Zahra

Entrepreneurs’ negotiation behavior pp. 737-757

Sabrina Artinger, Nir Vulkan and Yotam Shem-Tov

What drives environmental practices of SMEs? pp. 759-781

Brigitte Hoogendoorn, Daniela Guerra and Peter Zwan

Education and entrepreneurial success pp. 783-796

Ivar Kolstad and Arne Wiig

Causal ascriptions and perceived learning from entrepreneurial failure pp. 797-820

Yasuhiro Yamakawa and Melissa Cardon

An international cohort comparison of size effects on job growth pp. 821-844

Michael Anyadike-Danes, Carl Magnus Bjuggren, Sandra Gottschalk, Werner Hölzl, Dan Johansson, Mika Maliranta and Anja Myrann

Supply chains and the internationalization of small firms pp. 845-865

Giorgia Giovannetti, Enrico Marvasi and Marco Sanfilippo

Trust, transaction costs and contractual incompleteness in franchising pp. 867-888

George Hendrikse, Patrick Hippmann and Josef Windsperger

Firm growth in the course of mergers and acquisitions pp. 889-904

Dirk Burghardt and Marco Helm

Local financial development and the trade credit policy of Italian SMEs pp. 905-924

Marc Deloof and Maurizio La Rocca

Cluster development policy, SME’s performance, and spillovers: evidence from Brazil pp. 925-948

Lucas Figal Garone, Alessandro Maffioli, Joao Negri, Cesar Rodriguez and Gonzalo Vázquez-Baré

Volume 44, issue 3, 2015

Toward a theory of the entrepreneurial process pp. 475-484

Dennis Leyden and Albert Link

Creativity, self-efficacy, and small-firm performance: the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation pp. 485-504

Anis Khedhaouria, Călin Gurău and Olivier Torrès

The determinants of R&D persistence in SMEs pp. 505-528

Juan Máñez, María Rochina-Barrachina, Amparo Sanchis-Llopis and Juan Sanchis-Llopis

Uncertainty and the employment dynamics of small and large businesses pp. 529-558

Vivek Ghosal and Yang Ye

Small enterprise affiliations to business associations and the collective action problem revisited pp. 559-576

Martina Battisti and Martin Perry

Incumbent positioning as a determinant of strategic response to entry pp. 577-596

Peter-J. Jost, Stefanie Schubert and Miriam Zschoche

Heterogeneous entrepreneurs from occupational choices in economies with minimum wages pp. 597-619

Luis Medrano, Vicente Salas-Fumás and J. Sanchez-Asin

Economic failure and the role of plant age and size pp. 621-638

Steffen Mueller and Jens Stegmaier

Does (average) size matter? Court enforcement, business demography and firm growth pp. 639-669

Miguel Garcia-Posada and Juan Mora-Sanguinetti

A long-run survival analysis of corporate liquidations in Ireland pp. 671-683

Robert Kelly, Eoin Brien and Rebecca Stuart

Regional entrepreneurship and innovation in Chile: a knowledge matching approach pp. 685-703

Felix Modrego, Philip McCann, William Foster and M. Olfert

Entrepreneurship across time and space: empirical evidence from Korea pp. 705-719

Eunsuk Hong, In Lee, Laixiang Sun and Richard Harrison

Volume 44, issue 2, 2015

Infrastructure and entrepreneurship pp. 219-230

David Audretsch, Diana Heger and Tobias Veith

The heterogeneous dynamics between growth and profits: the case of young firms pp. 231-253

Juan Federico and Joan-Lluis Capelleras

Determinants of capital structure: evidence from a major developing economy pp. 255-282

Bülent Köksal and Cuneyt Orman

Are entrepreneurship and cognitive skills related? Some international evidence pp. 283-298

Rik Hafer and Garett Jones

Dividends and family governance practices in private family firms pp. 299-314

Anneleen Michiels, Wim Voordeckers, Nadine Lybaert and Tensie Steijvers

The driving forces of venture capital investments pp. 315-344

Yixi Ning, Wei Wang and Bo Yu

Transnational activities of immigrant-owned firms and their performances in the USA pp. 345-359

Qingfang Wang and Cathy Liu

Are high-growth firms one-hit wonders? Evidence from Sweden pp. 361-383

Sven-Olov Daunfeldt and Daniel Halvarsson

Leverage and firm performance of small businesses: evidence from Japan pp. 385-410

Daisuke Tsuruta

The role of demographics in small business loan pricing pp. 411-424

Doris Neuberger and Solvig Räthke-Döppner

Productivity, outsourcing and exit: the case of Australian manufacturing pp. 425-447

Sasan Bakhtiari

Innovation financing and the role of relationship lending for SMEs pp. 449-473

Emanuele Brancati

Volume 44, issue 1, 2015

The emergence of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship pp. 1-18

Niccolò Ghio, Massimiliano Guerini, Erik Lehmann and Cristina Rossi-Lamastra

The distribution of Schumpeterian and Kirznerian opportunities pp. 19-35

Jeroen de Jong and Orietta Marsili

Necessity entrepreneurship and competitive strategy pp. 37-54

Joern Block, Karsten Kohn, Danny Miller and Katrin Ullrich

Self-employment and the local business cycle pp. 55-70

Helena Svaleryd

The constructivist view of entrepreneurial opportunities: a critical analysis pp. 71-78

Stratos Ramoglou and Stelios Zyglidopoulos

Running in the family: parental role models in entrepreneurship pp. 79-104

Anders Hoffmann, Martin Junge and Nikolaj Malchow-Møller

Board ownership and processes in family firms pp. 105-122

Fabio Zona

High-growth firms and productivity: evidence from the United Kingdom pp. 123-143

Jun Du and Yama Temouri

High-growth firms in changing competitive environments: the US pharmaceutical industry (1963 to 2002) pp. 145-170

Mariana Mazzucato and Stuart Parris

Spatial patterns in new firm formation: are cooperatives different? pp. 171-187

Millan Diaz-Foncea and Carmen Marcuello

Venture capital financing and the financial distress risk of portfolio firms: How independent and bank-affiliated investors differ pp. 189-206

Annalisa Croce, Diego D’Adda and Elisa Ughetto

Firms size and directed technological change pp. 207-218

Cristiano Antonelli and Giuseppe Scellato