Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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

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Volume 39, issue 4, 2012

Patents, knowledge spillovers, and entrepreneurship pp. 801-817

Zoltan Acs and Mark Sanders

Self-employment: the role of intellectual property right laws pp. 819-833

Andrew Burke and Stuart Fraser

Social capital of venture capitalists and start-up funding pp. 835-851

Oliver Alexy, Joern Block, Philipp Sandner and Anne L.J. Wal

Panel studies of new venture creation: a methods-focused review and suggestions for future research pp. 853-876

Per Davidsson and Scott Gordon

Knowledge context and entrepreneurial intentions among students pp. 877-895

Dirk Dohse and Sascha Walter

The strength of science and technology drivers for SME innovation pp. 897-907

Mario Parrilli and Aitziber Elola

Bank market structure and entrepreneurship pp. 909-920

Tammy Rogers

Picking the winner? Empirical evidence on the targeting of R&D subsidies to start-ups pp. 921-936

Uwe Cantner and Sarah Kösters

Do firms’ growth rates depend on firm size? pp. 937-947

Jan Bentzen, Erik Madsen and Valdemar Smith

Firm exit after distress: differentiating between bankruptcy, voluntary liquidation and M&A pp. 949-975

Sofie Balcaen, Sophie Manigart, Jozefien Buyze and Hubert Ooghe

On the adjustment speed of SMEs to their optimal capital structure pp. 977-996

Cristina Aybar-Arias, Alejandro Casino-Martínez and José López-Gracia

The political and legal determinants of venture capital investments around the world pp. 997-1016

Stefano Bonini and Senem Alkan

Generalising Gibrat: using Chinese evidence founded on fieldwork pp. 1017-1028

Gavin Reid and Zhibin Xu

What makes a high-growth firm? A dynamic probit analysis using Spanish firm-level data pp. 1029-1041

Paloma Lopez-Garcia and Sergio Puente

Turbulence underneath the big calm? The micro-evidence behind Italian productivity dynamics pp. 1043-1067

Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi, Chiara Tomasi and Alessandro Zeli

Volume 39, issue 3, 2012

Entrepreneurial activity and regional competitiveness: an introduction to the special issue pp. 531-537

David Audretsch and Iñaki Peña-Legazkue

Creative industries, new business formation, and regional economic growth pp. 539-560

Roberta Piergiovanni, Martin Carree and Enrico Santarelli

Innovation, entrepreneurial activity and competitiveness at a sub-national level pp. 561-574

José González-Pernía, Iñaki Peña-Legazkue and Ferran Vendrell-Herrero

Start-ups as drivers of market mobility: an analysis at the region–sector level for The Netherlands pp. 575-585

Sierdjan Koster, André van Stel and Mickey Folkeringa

Regional competitiveness, university spillovers, and entrepreneurial activity pp. 587-601

David Audretsch, Marcel Hülsbeck and Erik Lehmann

Innovative opportunity pursuit, human capital and business ownership experience in an emerging region: evidence from Ghana pp. 603-625

Paul Robson, Charles Akuetteh, Paul Westhead and Mike Wright

The entrepreneurial ladder, gender, and regional development pp. 627-643

Peter Zwan, Ingrid Verheul and Roy Thurik

(Optimal) spatial aggregation in the determinants of industrial location pp. 645-658

Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod and Miguel Manjón-Antolín

Nascent entrepreneurship panel studies: progress and challenges pp. 659-665

William Gartner and Kelly Shaver

Expectancy theory and nascent entrepreneurship pp. 667-684

Maija Renko, K. Kroeck and Amanda Bullough

The nascent entrepreneurship hub: goals, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and start-up outcomes pp. 685-701

Diana Hechavarria, Maija Renko and Charles Matthews

The effects of perceptions of risk, environmental uncertainty, and growth aspirations on new venture creation success pp. 703-712

William Gartner and Jianwen Liao

Development and validation of a locus of control scale for the entrepreneurship domain pp. 713-726

Leon Schjoedt and Kelly Shaver

Birds of a feather get lost together: new venture team composition and performance pp. 727-743

Paul Steffens, Siri Terjesen and Per Davidsson

Financing the emerging firm pp. 745-761

William Gartner, Casey Frid and John Alexander

Properties of emerging organizations: empirical evidence from Norway pp. 763-781

Tatiana Manolova, Linda Edelman, Candida Brush and Beate Rotefoss

A tale of two exits: nascent entrepreneur learning activities and disengagement from start-up pp. 783-799

Juita-Elena Yusuf

Volume 39, issue 2, 2012

Employment growth from the Small Business Innovation Research program pp. 265-287

Albert Link and John Scott

Growth and entrepreneurship pp. 289-300

Zoltan Acs, David Audretsch, Pontus Braunerhjelm and Bo Carlsson

Organisation structure and innovation performance in different environments pp. 301-317

Andy Cosh, Xiaolan Fu and Alan Hughes

Affirmative action programs and business ownership among minorities and women pp. 319-339

Robert Fairlie and Justin Marion

Quantity and quality of information and SME financial structure pp. 341-358

Tom Caneghem and Geert Campenhout

Entrepreneurship in India: the question of occupational transition pp. 359-382

Erik Monsen, Prashanth Mahagaonkar and Christian Dienes

Firm growth and barriers to growth among small firms in India pp. 383-400

Alex Coad and Jagannadha Tamvada

Bargaining power and information in SME lending pp. 401-417

Jens Grunert and Lars Norden

Determinants of R&D cooperation in small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 419-436

Hyunbae Chun and Sung-Bae Mun

How SMEs exploit their intellectual property assets: evidence from survey data pp. 437-452

Gaétan de Rassenfosse

Do firms learn by exporting or learn to export? Evidence from small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 453-472

Kent Eliasson, Pär Hansson and Markus Lindvert

Part-time entrepreneurship and financial constraints: evidence from the Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics pp. 473-493

Kameliia Petrova

Founders’ human capital and the performance of UK new technology based firms pp. 495-515

Panagiotis Ganotakis

How does working capital management affect the profitability of Spanish SMEs? pp. 517-529

Sonia Baños-Caballero, Pedro García-Teruel and Pedro Martínez-Solano

Volume 39, issue 1, 2012

The experience of the founder and self-employment duration: a comparative advantage approach pp. 1-17

Dirk Oberschachtsiek

Quantile estimates of the impact of R&D intensity on firm performance pp. 19-37

Martin Falk

Identity and entrepreneurship: do school peers shape entrepreneurial intentions? pp. 39-59

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich and Elke Luedemann

The impact of firm entry regulation on long-living entrants pp. 61-76

Susanne Prantl

Taxation and entrepreneurship in a welfare state pp. 77-97

Mikael Stenkula

The productivity payoff of information technology in multimarket SMEs pp. 99-117

Francesco Sandulli, José Fernández-Menéndez, Antonio Rodríguez-Duarte and José López-Sánchez

Size matters: entrepreneurial entry and government pp. 119-139

Ruta Aidis, Saul Estrin and Tomasz Mickiewicz

Supporter networks and network growth: a contingency model of organizational emergence pp. 141-159

Scott Newbert and Erno Tornikoski

Trustworthiness and interest rates: an empirical study of Italian SMEs pp. 161-177

Carole Howorth and Andrea Moro

Financing technology-based small firms in Europe: what do we know? pp. 179-205

Valérie Revest and Sandro Sapio

Consolidation by merger: the UK beer market pp. 207-229

Silviano Esteve-Pérez

The geographic determinants of bankruptcy: evidence from Switzerland pp. 231-251

Stefan Buehler, Christian Kaiser and Franz Jaeger

The economic impact of the Canada small business financing program pp. 253-264

Vincent Chandler