Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 38, issue 4, 2012

Impact of founder experience on exit intentions pp. 351-374

Dawn DeTienne and Melissa Cardon

Can state tax policies be used to promote entrepreneurial activity? pp. 375-397

Donald Bruce and John Deskins

The latent demand for bank debt: characterizing “discouraged borrowers” pp. 399-418

Mark Freel, Sara Carter, Stephen Tagg and Colin Mason

Leveraged buyouts, private equity and jobs pp. 419-430

Kevin Amess and Mike Wright

The impact of firm and industry characteristics on small firms’ capital structure pp. 431-447

Hans Degryse, Peter Goeij and Peter Kappert

Seasoned equity offerings by small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 449-465

Cécile Carpentier, Jean-François L’Her and Jean-Marc Suret

Gender, borrowing patterns and self-employment: some evidence for England pp. 467-480

Vania Sena, Jonathan Scott and Stephen Roper

Explaining loan rate differentials between small and large companies: evidence from Switzerland pp. 481-494

Andreas Dietrich

Tax policy and entrepreneurship: empirical evidence from Sweden pp. 495-513

Åsa Hansson

Volume 38, issue 3, 2012

An overview of entrepreneurial activity in nonprofit organizations in the international context pp. 265-269

Domingo Soriano and Miguel-Ángel Galindo

Non-profit organizations, entrepreneurship, social capital and economic growth pp. 271-281

Sahar Bahmani, Miguel-Ángel Galindo and María-Teresa Méndez-Picazo

The capital gap for small technology companies: public venture capital to the rescue? pp. 283-301

Itxaso del-Palacio, Xiaotian Zhang and Francesc Sole

Drivers of non-profit activity: a cross-country analysis pp. 303-320

Edward Nissan, Maria-Soledad Castaño and Inmaculada Carrasco

Long-term care, dependence and the third sector pp. 321-331

Francisco Escribano Sotos and Isabel Pardo García

The impact of education, experience and inner circle advisors on SME performance: insights from a study of public development centers pp. 333-349

Domingo Soriano and Gary Castrogiovanni

Volume 38, issue 2, 2012

Valuing an entrepreneurial enterprise pp. 139-145

David Audretsch and Albert Link

Financing new venture exporters pp. 147-163

Allan Riding, Barbara Orser, Martine Spence and Brad Belanger

Job satisfaction and self-employment: autonomy or personality? pp. 165-177

Thomas Lange

Strategic alliances by venture capital backed firms: an empirical examination pp. 179-196

Haizhi Wang, Robert Wuebker, Shu Han and Michael Ensley

Partnering with universities: a good choice for nanotechnology start-up firms? pp. 197-215

Jue Wang and Philip Shapira

SMEs and regional economic growth in Brazil pp. 217-230

Túlio Cravo, Adrian Gourlay and Bettina Becker

Determinants of self-employment survival in Europe pp. 231-258

Jose Maria Millan, Emilio Congregado and Concepción Román

Erratum to: Determinants of self-employment survival in Europe pp. 259-263

Jose Maria Millan, Emilio Congregado and Concepción Román

Volume 38, issue 1, 2012

The entrepreneuring family: a new paradigm for family business research pp. 1-11

Lorraine Uhlaner, Franz Kellermanns, Kimberly Eddleston and Frank Hoy

Erratum to: The entrepreneuring family: a new paradigm for family business research pp. 13-13

Lorraine Uhlaner, Franz Kellermanns, Kimberly Eddleston and Frank Hoy

The role of family ownership in international entrepreneurship: exploring nonlinear effects pp. 15-31

Salvatore Sciascia, Pietro Mazzola, Joseph Astrachan and Torsten Pieper

Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: a generational perspective pp. 33-49

Cristina Cruz and Mattias Nordqvist

Organizational learning and entrepreneurship in family firms: exploring the moderating effect of ownership and cohesion pp. 51-65

Shaker Zahra

Entrepreneurial orientation in long-lived family firms pp. 67-84

Thomas Zellweger and Philipp Sieger

Innovativeness in family firms: a family influence perspective pp. 85-101

Franz Kellermanns, Kimberly Eddleston, Ravi Sarathy and Fran Murphy

Family governance practices and teambuilding: paradox of the enterprising family pp. 103-119

Marta Berent-Braun and Lorraine Uhlaner

Parental role models and the decision to become self-employed: The moderating effect of personality pp. 121-138

Simone Chlosta, Holger Patzelt, Sabine Klein and Christian Dormann

Volume 37, issue 4, 2011

Introduction to special issue of Small Business Economics on female entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies pp. 393-396

Zoltan Acs, Elena Bardasi, Saul Estrin and Jan Svejnar

Institutions and female entrepreneurship pp. 397-415

Saul Estrin and Tomasz Mickiewicz

How do female entrepreneurs perform? Evidence from three developing regions pp. 417-441

Elena Bardasi, Shwetlena Sabarwal and Katherine Terrell

Whose business is it anyway? pp. 443-464

Reyes Aterido and Mary Hallward-Driemeier

Only the lonely? The influence of the spouse on the transition to self-employment pp. 465-492

Berkay Özcan

Gender differences in the impact of banking services: evidence from Mexico pp. 493-512

Miriam Bruhn and Inessa Love

Volume 37, issue 3, 2011

Candidate gene studies and the quest for the entrepreneurial gene pp. 269-275

Matthijs Loos, Philipp Koellinger, Patrick Groenen, Cornelius Rietveld, Fernando Rivadeneira, Frank Rooij, André Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman and Roy Thurik

Lending technologies, lending specialization, and minority access to small-business loans pp. 277-304

Karlyn Mitchell and Douglas Pearce

Workforce age and technology adoption in small and medium-sized service firms pp. 305-324

Jenny Meyer

Geography, knowledge spillovers and small firms’ exports: an empirical examination for The Netherlands pp. 325-339

Cees Beers and Gerben Panne

SMEs in Argentina: who are the exporters? pp. 341-361

Gianmarco Ottaviano and Christian Volpe Martincus

Dependent self-employment as a way to evade employment protection legislation pp. 363-392

Concepción Román, Emilio Congregado and Jose Maria Millan

Volume 37, issue 2, 2011

Steven Klepper: Recipient of the 2011 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 131-140

Pontus Braunerhjelm and Bo Carlsson

Nano-economics, spinoffs, and the wealth of regions pp. 141-154

Steven Klepper

Small business survival and sample selection bias pp. 155-165

Hanas Cader and John Leatherman

Entrepreneurship and the theory of taxation pp. 167-185

Magnus Henrekson and Tino Sanandaji

New Zealand’s perfect storm of entrepreneurship and economic development pp. 187-204

Howard Frederick and Erik Monsen

Evaluating guarantee fees for loans to small and medium-sized enterprises pp. 205-218

Chau-Jung Kuo, Chin-Ming Chen and Chao-Hsien Sung

Entrepreneurial intentions in the third age: the impact of perceived age norms pp. 219-234

Teemu Kautonen, Erno Tornikoski and Ewald Kibler

International patterns of ownership structure choices of start-ups: does the quality of law matter? pp. 235-254

Qianqian Du and Ilan Vertinsky

Entrepreneurship, export orientation, and economic growth pp. 255-268

Jolanda Hessels and André van Stel

Volume 37, issue 1, 2011

Serial entrepreneurship: impact of human capital on time to re-entry pp. 1-21

A. Amaral, Rui Baptista and Francisco Lima

Relationship between individualist–collectivist culture and entrepreneurial activity: evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data pp. 23-37

María-José Pinillos and Luisa Reyes

Operationalizing opportunities in entrepreneurship research: use of data envelopment analysis pp. 39-57

Sergey Anokhin, Joakim Wincent and Erkko Autio

Noisy selection model and the evolution of firm size and within-firm earnings distributions: a unified approach pp. 59-72

Serguey Braguinsky and Atsushi Ohyama

The spatial demography of new plants: urban creation and rural survival pp. 73-86

Jean-Pierre Huiban

Entry and innovation: an analysis of the fabless semiconductor business pp. 87-106

Margherita Balconi and Roberto Fontana

Capital Structure Decisions During a Firm's Life Cycle pp. 107-130

Maurizio La Rocca, Tiziana La Rocca and Alfio Cariola