Small Business Economics

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Volume 43, issue 4, 2014

Firm growth and innovation pp. 743-749

David Audretsch, Alex Coad and Agustí Segarra

Why don't all young firms invest in R&D? pp. 751-766

David Audretsch, Agustí Segarra and Mercedes Teruel Carrizosa

R&D, firm growth and the role of innovation persistence: an analysis of Finnish SMEs and large firms pp. 767-785

Matthias Deschryvere

Persistence of innovation and firm’s growth: evidence from a panel of SME and large Spanish manufacturing firms pp. 787-804

Angela Triguero Cano, David Córcoles and Maria Cuerva

High-growth firms and innovation: an empirical analysis for Spanish firms pp. 805-821

Agustí Segarra and Mercedes Teruel Carrizosa

Age and firm growth: evidence from three European countries pp. 823-837

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Davide Castellani and Fabio Pieri

Investigating the impact of the technological environment on survival chances of employer entrepreneurs pp. 839-855

André Stel, Jose Maria Millan and Concepción Román

Processes of firm growth and diversification: theory and evidence pp. 857-871

Alex Coad and Christina Guenther

Process innovation strategy in SMEs, organizational innovation and performance: a misleading debate? pp. 873-886

Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver, Francisca Sempere-Ripoll and Carles Boronat-Moll

Who become serial and portfolio entrepreneurs? pp. 887-898

Simon Parker

Charitable donations by the self-employed pp. 899-916

Matthias Tietz and Simon Parker

Does health reform affect self-employment? Evidence from Massachusetts pp. 917-930

Bradley Heim and Ithai Lurie

State intervention and the microcredit market: the role of business development services pp. 931-944

Renaud Bourlès and Anastasia Cozarenco

Asymmetric changes in Australia’s small business loan rate pp. 945-957

Abbas Valadkhani, George Chen and Bernice Kotey

Assessment of the public tools used to promote R&D investment in Spanish SMEs pp. 959-976

Desiderio Romero-Jordan, María Delgado-Rodríguez, Inmaculada Álvarez and Sonia Lucas-Santos

Volume 43, issue 3, 2014

Entrepreneurship, innovation, and human flourishing pp. 511-528

Magnus Henrekson

Business experience and start-up size: Buying more lottery tickets next time around? pp. 529-547

Alex Coad, Julian Frankish, Paul Nightingale and Richard Roberts

Female self-employment and children pp. 549-569

Florian Noseleit

Tax incentives… or subsidies for business R&D? pp. 571-596

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

Strategic reference points in family firms pp. 597-619

Josip Kotlar, Alfredo De Massis, Hanqing Fang and Federico Frattini

Industry relatedness in trade sales and venture capital investment returns pp. 621-637

Ann-Kristin Achleitner, Reiner Braun, Eva Lutz and Uwe Reiner

The ineffectiveness of entrepreneurship policy: is policy formulation to blame? pp. 639-659

Norin Arshed, Sara Carter and Colin Mason

Metropolitan innovation, firm size, and business survival in a high-tech industry pp. 661-676

Alexandra Tsvetkova, Jean-Claude Thill and Deborah Strumsky

Economic growth and crime against small and medium sized enterprises in developing economies pp. 677-695

Asif Islam

Clustering as an organizational response to capital market inefficiency: evidence from microenterprises in Ethiopia pp. 697-709

Merima Ali, Jack Peerlings and Xiaobo Zhang

Partial credit guarantees and firm performance: evidence from Colombia pp. 711-724

Irani Arraiz, Marcela Meléndez and Rodolfo Stucchi

Imperfect information and labor market bias against small and medium-sized enterprises: a Korean case pp. 725-741

Soonae Park, Byung-Yeon Kim, Wonchang Jang and Kyung-Min Nam

Volume 43, issue 2, 2014

The origin of spin-offs: a typology of corporate and academic spin-offs pp. 245-259

Helmut Fryges and Mike Wright

The impact of local and external university knowledge on the creation of knowledge-intensive firms: evidence from the Italian case pp. 261-287

Andrea Bonaccorsi, Massimo Colombo, Massimiliano Guerini and Cristina Rossi-Lamastra

Technology transfer offices as boundary spanners in the pre-spin-off process: the case of a hybrid model pp. 289-307

Annelore Huyghe, Mirjam Knockaert, Mike Wright and Evila Piva

University spin-offs and the “performance premium” pp. 309-326

Dirk Czarnitzki, Christian Rammer and Andrew Toole

How innovative are spin-offs at later stages of development? Comparing innovativeness of established research spin-offs and otherwise created firms pp. 327-351

Anna Lejpras

Are public research spin-offs more innovative? pp. 353-368

Andreas Stephan

Job machine, think tank, or both: what makes corporate spin-offs different? pp. 369-391

Helmut Fryges, Bettina Müller and Michaela Niefert

Entrepreneurship and innovation networks pp. 393-398

Charlie Karlsson and Peter Warda

New firms and labor market entrants: Is there a wage penalty for employment in new firms? pp. 399-410

Kristina Nyström and Gulzat Elvung

Entrepreneurship and survival over the business cycle: how do new technology-based firms differ? pp. 411-426

Olof Ejermo and Jing Xiao

How much of a socialist legacy? The re-emergence of entrepreneurship in the East German transformation to a market economy pp. 427-446

Michael Fritsch, Elisabeth Sattler-Bublitz, Alina Sorgner and Michael Wyrwich

Non-R&D SMEs: external knowledge, absorptive capacity and product innovation pp. 447-462

Mikko Moilanen, Stein Østbye and Kristin Woll

Innovation embedded in entrepreneurs’ networks and national educational systems pp. 463-476

Thomas Schott and Mahdokht Sedaghat

Survival, productivity and growth of new ventures across locations pp. 477-491

Hans Lööf and Pardis Nabavi

The role of knowledge variety and intensity for regional innovation pp. 493-509

Sam Tavassoli and Nunzia Carbonara

Volume 43, issue 1, 2014

Maryann Feldman: Recipient of the 2013 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 1-8

Mark Lorenzen and Bo Carlsson

The character of innovative places: entrepreneurial strategy, economic development, and prosperity pp. 9-20

Maryann Feldman

Small firm innovation performance and employee involvement pp. 21-38

Petra Andries and Dirk Czarnitzki

The entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship in private family firms: the moderating role of socioemotional wealth pp. 39-55

Jelle Schepers, Wim Voordeckers, Tensie Steijvers and Eddy Laveren

Academics’ start-up intentions and knowledge filters: an individual perspective of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship pp. 57-74

Maribel Guerrero and David Urbano

Who creates jobs in developing countries? pp. 75-99

Meghana Ayyagari, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic

Entrepreneurs’ creativity and firm innovation: the moderating role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy pp. 101-117

Branka Ahlin, Mateja Drnovšek and Robert Hisrich

Ownership as R&D incentive in business groups pp. 119-135

Enrico Guzzini and Donato Iacobucci

The effect of working time preferences and fair wage perceptions on entrepreneurial intentions among employees pp. 137-160

Arndt Werner, Johanna Gast and Sascha Kraus

Regional institutional development, political connections, and entrepreneurial performance in China’s transition economy pp. 161-181

Wubiao Zhou

What holds back high-growth firms? Evidence from UK SMEs pp. 183-195

Neil Lee

Private equity, investment and financial constraints: firm-level evidence for France and the United Kingdom pp. 197-212

Dirk Engel and Joel Stiebale

Spatial agglomeration and firm exit: a spatial dynamic analysis for Italian provinces pp. 213-228

Giulio Cainelli, Sandro Montresor and Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti

Efficiency of venture capital firms: evidence from Spain pp. 229-243

Arturo Haro- de-Rosario, del Caba-Pérez Mª and Leonardo Cazorla-Papis