Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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

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Volume 40, issue 4, 2013

Kathleen Eisenhardt: recipient of the 2012 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 797-804

Bo Carlsson

Top management teams and the performance of entrepreneurial firms pp. 805-816

Kathleen Eisenhardt

The effect of institutional quality on firm export performance in emerging economies: a contingency model of firm age and size pp. 817-841

Joseph LiPuma, Scott Newbert and Jonathan Doh

How useful is venture capital prestige? Evidence from IPO survivability pp. 843-863

Ting-Kai Chou, Jia-Chi Cheng and Chin-Chen Chien

The entrepreneur’s mode of entry: the effect of social and financial capital pp. 865-877

Françoise Bastié, Sylvie Cieply and Pascal Cussy

Domestic transport infrastructure and firms’ export market participation pp. 879-898

Pedro Albarran, Raquel Carrasco and Adelheid Holl

Relationship banking and escalating commitments to bad loans pp. 899-910

Eugene Kang, Asghar Zardkoohi, Ramona Paetzold and Donald Fraser

Is success hereditary? Evidence on the performance of spawned ventures pp. 911-931

Johannes Dick, Katrin Hussinger, Boris Blumberg and John Hagedoorn

Does self-employment increase the economic well-being of low-skilled workers? pp. 933-952

Magnus Lofstrom

Firm ownership and productivity: a study of family and non-family SMEs pp. 953-976

Francesco Barbera and Ken Moores

Long-lasting bank relationships and growth of firms pp. 977-1007

Alessandro Gambini and Alberto Zazzaro

Life satisfaction and self-employment: a matching approach pp. 1009-1033

Martin Binder and Alex Coad

Family firms’ investments, uncertainty and opacity pp. 1035-1058

Magda Bianco, Maria Bontempi, Roberto Golinelli and Giuseppe Parigi

Geographic scope of proximity effects among small life sciences firms pp. 1059-1086

Christos Kolympiris and Nicholas Kalaitzandonakes

An entrepreneurial process perspective on succession in family firms pp. 1087-1122

Mattias Nordqvist, Karl Wennberg, Massimo Bau’ and Karin Hellerstedt

Volume 40, issue 3, 2013

Reassessing the relationships between private equity investors and their portfolio companies pp. 479-492

Sophie Manigart and Mike Wright

The association between venture capitalists’ selection and value adding behavior: evidence from early stage high tech venture capitalists pp. 493-509

Mirjam Knockaert and Tom Vanacker

Why do contracts differ between venture capital types? pp. 511-525

Julia Hirsch and Uwe Walz

Venture capital investor type and the growth mode of new technology-based firms pp. 527-552

Fabio Bertoni, Massimo Colombo and Luca Grilli

The role of domestic and cross-border venture capital investors in the growth of portfolio companies pp. 553-573

David Devigne, Tom Vanacker, Sophie Manigart and Ine Paeleman

Learning from own and others’ previous experience: the contribution of the venture capital firm to the likelihood of a portfolio company’s trade sale pp. 575-590

Bart Clarysse, Annelies Bobelyn and Itxaso Palacio Aguirre

Private equity and entrepreneurial management in management buy-outs pp. 591-605

Hans Bruining, Ernst Verwaal and Mike Wright

The different roles played by venture capital and private equity investors on the investment activity of their portfolio firms pp. 607-633

Fabio Bertoni, María Ferrer and José Martí

Conflicts between entrepreneurs and investors: the impact of perceived unethical behavior pp. 635-649

Veroniek Collewaert and Yves Fassin

Determinants of job satisfaction: a European comparison of self-employed and paid employees pp. 651-670

Jose Maria Millan, Jolanda Hessels, Roy Thurik and Rafael Aguado

Regional determinants of ICT new firm formation pp. 671-686

Frank Lasch, Frank Robert and Frédéric Roy

SBE special issue introduction pp. 687-691

Jill Kickul, Siri Terjesen and Rachida Justo

Designing a global standardized methodology for measuring social entrepreneurship activity: the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor social entrepreneurship study pp. 693-714

Jan Lepoutre, Rachida Justo, Siri Terjesen and Niels Bosma

Business models for people, planet (& profits): exploring the phenomena of social business, a market-based approach to social value creation pp. 715-737

Fiona Wilson and James Post

Nascent green-technology ventures: a study assessing the role of partnership diversity in firm success pp. 739-759

Moriah Meyskens and Alan Carsrud

Entrepreneurial processes in social contexts: how are they different, if at all? pp. 761-783

G. Lumpkin, Todd Moss, David Gras, Shoko Kato and Alejandro Amezcua

The social value of productive entrepreneurship pp. 785-796

Zoltan Acs, Mary Boardman and Connie McNeely

Volume 40, issue 2, 2013

Coase on entrepreneurship pp. 173-184

Siri Terjesen and Ning Wang

An absorptive capacity theory of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship pp. 185-197

Haifeng Qian and Zoltan Acs

Leveraging entrepreneurship through private investments: does gender matter? pp. 199-210

Dora Gicheva and Albert Link

Creating good public policy to support high-growth firms pp. 211-225

Colin Mason and Ross Brown

Completing the technology transfer process: M&As of science-based IPOs pp. 227-248

Michele Meoli, Stefano Paleari and Silvio Vismara

The influence of age on SMEs’ growth determinants: empirical evidence pp. 249-272

Paulo Nunes, Marco Gonçalves and Zelia Serrasqueiro

Disaggregating entrepreneurial orientation: the non-linear impact of innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking on SME performance pp. 273-291

Patrick Kreiser, Louis Marino, Donald Kuratko and K. Weaver

Dismissal protection and small firms’ hirings: evidence from a policy reform pp. 293-307

Stefan Bauernschuster

Entrepreneurial skills and workers’ wages in small firms pp. 309-323

Rui Baptista, Francisco Lima and Miguel Preto

Health insurance provision and labor contracts for small firms pp. 325-334

Chu-Shiu Li, Chwen-Chi Liu, Yu-Chen Kuo and Chen-Sheng Yang

Firm size and efficiency in the German mechanical engineering industry pp. 335-350

Alexander Schiersch

How did the notional interest deduction affect Belgian SMEs’ capital structure? pp. 351-373

Geert Campenhout and Tom Caneghem

The higher returns to formal education for entrepreneurs versus employees pp. 375-396

Mirjam Praag, Arjen van Witteloostuijn and Justin van der Sluis

Vertical integration and efficiency: an application to the Italian machine tool industry pp. 397-416

Fabio Pieri and Enrico Zaninotto

Failing firms and successful entrepreneurs: serial entrepreneurship as a temporal portfolio pp. 417-434

Saras Sarasvathy, Anil Menon and Graciela Kuechle

The interplay of human and social capital in shaping entrepreneurial performance: the case of Vietnam pp. 435-458

Enrico Santarelli and Hien Tran

School competition and students’ entrepreneurial intentions: international evidence using historical Catholic roots of private schooling pp. 459-478

Oliver Falck and Ludger Woessmann

Volume 40, issue 1, 2013

From laboratory to market: on the propensity of young inventors to form a new business pp. 1-7

Albert Link and Dianne Welsh

Employment and SMEs during crises pp. 9-25

Celeste Varum and Vera Rocha

What’s so entrepreneurial about intrapreneurs? pp. 27-39

Aloña Martiarena

Trends in family business research pp. 41-57

Carlos Benavides-Velasco, Cristina Quintana-García and Vanesa Guzmán-Parra

Governance mechanisms, investment opportunity set and SMEs cash holdings pp. 59-72

Yacine Belghitar and James Khan

African Americans’ pursuit of self-employment pp. 73-86

Magnus Lofstrom and Timothy Bates

Microcredit: an answer to the gender problem in funding? pp. 87-100

Sophie Brana

The trade credit channel revisited: evidence from micro data of Japanese small firms pp. 101-118

Kazuo Ogawa, Elmer Sterken and Ichiro Tokutsu

Entrepreneurial opportunities in peripheral versus core regions in Chile pp. 119-139

José Amorós, Christian Felzensztein and Eli Gimmon

Tax progressivity and self-employment: evidence from Canadian provinces pp. 141-153

Ergete Ferede

The best and the brightest or the least successful? Self-employment entry among male wage-earners in Sweden pp. 155-172

Pernilla Andersson Joona and Eskil Wadensjö