Small Business Economics

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Volume 62, issue 4, 2024

Coupling engagement with analytical rigor: advancing research on religion and entrepreneurship using a mechanism-based approach pp. 1273-1284

Marcus Dejardin, Brigitte Hoogendoorn, Frank Janssen, Cornelius A. Rietveld and Elco Burg

The protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: inside the black box pp. 1285-1313

Luca Nunziata and Lorenzo Rocco

Specifying the role of religion in entrepreneurial action: a cognitive perspective pp. 1315-1336

Saulo Dubard Barbosa and Brett R. Smith

Does religion matter to angels? Exploring the influence of religion in entrepreneurial investor decision-making pp. 1337-1360

Jessica Jones, Christina Hymer, Ashley Roccapriore and Brett Smith

Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation pp. 1361-1382

Ruben Werven

Beware the community type: engagement and growth in core vs. open online communities pp. 1383-1407

Thomas Cyron, Marcel Garz and Norbert Steigenberger

Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view pp. 1409-1427

Shihao Wei, Christopher Boudreaux, Zhongfeng Su and Zhan Wu

Digital innovation in family firms: The roles of non-family managers and transgenerational control intentions pp. 1429-1448

Anna Maria Bornhausen and Torsten Wulf

Is this time different? How Industry 4.0 affects firms’ labor productivity pp. 1449-1467

Marco Bettiol, Mauro Capestro, Eleonora Di Maria and Roberto Ganau

Is digitalization a source of innovation? Exploring the role of digital diffusion in SME innovation performance pp. 1469-1491

Sohaib S. Hassan, Konrad Meisner, Kevin Krause, Levan Bzhalava and Petra Moog

Entrepreneurial finance and regional ecosystem emergence pp. 1493-1521

Paige Clayton, Maryann Feldman and Benjamin Montmartin

Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience pp. 1523-1553

Marco Caliendo and Daniel Rodríguez

A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere pp. 1555-1590

Uwe Cantner, Philip Doerr, Maximilian Goethner, Matthias Huegel and Martin Kalthaus

Getting off to a good start: emerging academic fields and early-stage equity financing pp. 1591-1613

Ciro D. Esposito, Balazs Szatmari, Jonathan M. C. Sitruk and Nachoem M. Wijnberg

Corporate accelerators: design and startup performance pp. 1615-1640

Nikolaus Seitz, Erik E. Lehmann and Patrick Haslanger

Early-stage start-up hiring: the interplay between start-ups’ initial resources and innovation orientation pp. 1641-1668

Vera Rocha and Luca Grilli

Volume 62, issue 3, 2024

Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs pp. 857-877

Dolores Añón Higón and Daniel Bonvin

Effectuation and causation models: an integrative theoretical framework pp. 879-893

Margot Racat, Antonin Ricard and René Mauer

A by-product of big government: the attenuating role of public procurement for the effectiveness of grants-based entrepreneurship policy pp. 895-916

Peter Grajzl, Stjepan Srhoj, Jaka Cepec and Barbara Mörec

The creation of digital innovative start-ups: the role of digital knowledge spillovers and digital skill endowment pp. 917-937

Alessandra Colombelli, Emilio Paolucci, Elisabetta Raguseo and Gianluca Elia

The impact of public procurement on financial barriers to general and green innovation pp. 939-959

Dorothea Schäfer, Andreas Stephan and Sören Fuhrmeister

Financing constraints and SME growth: the suppression effect of cost-saving management innovations pp. 961-986

Tristan Blick, Ine Paeleman and Eddy Laveren

The role of passion diversity, compassion, and self-compassion for team entrepreneurial passion pp. 987-1007

Bernadetta A. Ginting-Szczesny, Ewald Kibler, Melissa S. Cardon, Teemu Kautonen and Henri Hakala

The transfer of federally funded technology: A study of small, entrepreneurial, and ambidextrous firms pp. 1009-1023

Maribel Guerrero, Albert Link and Martijn Hasselt

From imposter fears to authenticity: a typology of women entrepreneurs pp. 1025-1050

Ingrid C. Chadwick and Alexandra Dawson

Africa’s businesswomen – underfunded or underperforming? pp. 1051-1074

Charles Ackah, Holger Görg, Aoife Hanley and Cecília Hornok

What microfinance schemes for women-owned microenterprises’ productivity in rural Benin? pp. 1075-1097

Rose Fiamohe, Sènakpon Fidèle Ange Dedehouanou and Abdelkrim Araar

Save women entrepreneurs: gender, cultural context, and micro-commerce performance in Togo pp. 1099-1133

Tchapo Gbandi, Ayira Korem and Kossiwa Zinsou-Klassou

Cultural diversity, social integration, and migrant entrepreneurship—evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey pp. 1135-1155

Ping Zhang, Xin Wei and Guirong Mao

Adolescent entrepreneurial learning ecosystem and a tech entrepreneurial career—inspiration from theblack swan stories pp. 1157-1176

Wendy D. Chen, Zoltan Acs and Siri Terjesen

Conditions that make ventures thrive: from individual entrepreneur to innovation impact pp. 1177-1200

Brian Chung, Philip Hans Franses and Enrico Pennings

What conditions favor high-potential entrepreneurship? Unpacking the nexus between the industrial structure and startup typologies pp. 1201-1222

Leonardo Mazzoni and Niccolò Innocenti

Entry-regulation and corruption: grease or sand in the wheels of entrepreneurship? Fresh evidence according to entrepreneurial motives pp. 1223-1272

Marcus Dejardin and Hélène Laurent

Volume 62, issue 2, 2024

Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban development pp. 463-469

Haifeng Qian, Jing Wu and Siqi Zheng

Comprehensive and multifaceted perspectives on sustainability, urban studies, and entrepreneurship pp. 471-501

Elisabeth S. C. Berger and Christine Blanka

Entrepreneurial ecosystems, institutional quality, and the unexpected role of the sustainability orientation of entrepreneurs pp. 503-522

David Bruce Audretsch, Maksim Belitski, Georg Maximilian Eichler and Erich Schwarz

Are cities venturing green? A global analysis of the impact of green entrepreneurship on city air pollution pp. 523-540

Theodor F. Cojoianu, Andreas G. F. Hoepner, Xi Hu, Moustafa Ramadan, Paolo Veneri and Dariusz Wójcik

From place to space: the emergence and evolution of sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems in smart cities pp. 541-569

Indu Khurana and Dev K. Dutta

The interplay of context and entrepreneurship: the new frontier for contextualisation research pp. 571-582

Cyrine Ben-Hafaiedh, Mirela Xheneti, Pekka Stenholm, Robert Blackburn, Friederike Welter and David Urbano

The dynamic construction of an incubation context: a practice theory perspective pp. 583-605

Amba Maria Erkelens, Neil Aaron Thompson and Dominic Chalmers

Trans-contextual work: doing entrepreneurial contexts in the periphery pp. 607-628

Pablo Muñoz, Jonathan Kimmitt and Ben Spigel

Making, unmaking and remaking of context in entrepreneurial identity construction and experiences: a comparative analysis between Türkiye and the Netherlands pp. 629-648

Sibel Ozasir Kacar

An anthropological perspective on contextualizing entrepreneurship pp. 649-665

Michiel Verver and Juliette Koning

Contextualizing emotional intelligence for commercial and social entrepreneurship pp. 667-686

Saurav Pathak and Etayankara Muralidharan

Labor market regulation and gendered entrepreneurship: a cross-national perspective pp. 687-706

María J. Angulo-Guerrero, Elena Barcena-Martin, Samuel Medina-Claros and Salvador Pérez-Moreno

Business groups’ internal labour markets and SME labour productivity pp. 707-725

Pablo Doucet, Ignacio Requejo and Isabel Suarez-Gonzalez

The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields pp. 727-751

Roy Thurik, David B. Audretsch, Joern Block, Andrew Burke, Martin A. Carree, Marcus Dejardin, Cornelius A. Rietveld, Mark Sanders, Ute Stephan and Johan Wiklund

Becoming global billionaires from mainland China: 2004–2018 pp. 753-773

Kezhou Xiao

Does local government corruption inhibit entrepreneurship? pp. 775-806

Emanuel Wittberg, Gissur Ó. Erlingsson and Karl Wennberg

Image isn’t everything: Personality attractiveness, physical attractiveness, and self-employment earnings pp. 807-831

Marcus T. Wolfe and Pankaj C. Patel

Do intangible assets help SMEs in underdeveloped markets gain access to external finance?—the case of Vietnam pp. 833-855

Chau Le, Bach Nguyen and Vinh Vo

Volume 62, issue 1, 2024

Remembering David J Storey, a pioneer of the entrepreneurship field pp. 1-21

Simon C. Parker, Thomas Astebro, David B Audretsch, Robert Blackburn, Andrew Burke, Alex Coad, Marc Cowling, Per Davidsson, Michael Fritsch, Francis Greene, Paul D. Reynolds and Roy Thurik

Different outcomes for different founders? Local organizational sponsorship and entrepreneurial finance pp. 23-62

Paige Clayton

Artificial intelligence and firm growth — catch-up processes of SMEs through integrating AI into their knowledge bases pp. 63-85

Alexander Kopka and Dirk Fornahl

Family firm network strategies in regional clusters: evidence from Italy pp. 87-103

Stefano Ghinoi, Riccardo Vita, Bodo Steiner and Alessandro Sinatra

The impact of trade facilitation on African SMEs’ performance pp. 105-131

Andrew E. Hansen-Addy, Davide M. Parrilli and Ishmael Tingbani

Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents? pp. 133-158

Mark J. Garmaise and Gabriel Natividad

Does the bank-firm human relationship still matter for SMEs? The game-changing role of digitalization pp. 159-178

Francesco Fasano and Tiziana Rocca

Green management, access to credit, and firms’ vulnerability to the COVID-19 crisis pp. 179-211

David Aristei and Manuela Gallo

The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance pp. 213-241

Ivan Miroshnychenko, Giorgio Vocalelli, Alfredo Massis, Stefano Grassi and Francesco Ravazzolo

In search of gazelles: machine learning prediction for Korean high-growth firms pp. 243-284

Ho-Chang Chae

Deconstructing involuntary financial exclusion: a focus on African SMEs pp. 285-305

Amon Simba, Mahdi Tajeddin, Leo Dana and Domingo E. Ribeiro Soriano

Small Business Property Tax Reductions and Firm Productivity pp. 307-324

Karolis Matikonis and Matthew Gobey

The well-being of women entrepreneurs: the role of gender inequality and gender roles pp. 325-352

Inessa Love, Boris Nikolaev and Chandra Dhakal

Achieving entrepreneurial growth despite resource and capability constraints: the role of service intermediaries pp. 353-380

Kristijan Mirkovski, Frederik Briel, Paul Benjamin Lowry and Libo Liu

Paradoxes of accelerator programs and new venture performance: Do varieties of experiences make a difference? pp. 381-409

Farzana Chowdhury and David B. Audretsch

Estimating the innovation benefits of first-mover and second-mover strategies when micro-businesses adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning pp. 411-434

Ully Y. Nafizah, Stephen Roper and Kevin Mole

Core business prospects and the management of internal corporate ventures pp. 435-459

Jeffrey G. Covin, Robert P. Garrett, Ricarda B. Bouncken, Martin Ratzmann and Malcolm Muhammad

Correction to: Core business prospects and the management of internal corporate ventures pp. 461-462

Jefrey G. Covin, Robert P. Garrett, Ricarda B. Bouncken, Martin Ratzmann and Malcolm Muhammad