Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 36, issue 4, 2011

Entrepreneurial dynamics and regional growth pp. 377-382

Marcus Dejardin and Michael Fritsch

Why does the effect of new business formation differ across regions? pp. 383-400

Michael Fritsch and Alexandra Schroeter

Creative destruction and regional productivity growth: evidence from the Dutch manufacturing and services industries pp. 401-418

Niels Bosma, Erik Stam and Veronique Schutjens

New firm formation and employment growth: regional and business dynamics pp. 419-442

Rui Baptista and Miguel Preto

Linking net entry to regional economic growth pp. 443-460

Marcus Dejardin

Start-ups and employment dynamics within and across sectors pp. 461-483

Martin Andersson and Florian Noseleit

Individual foundings and organizational foundings: their effect on employment growth in The Netherlands pp. 485-501

Sierdjan Koster

New business formation in a rapidly growing economy: the Irish experience pp. 503-516

Michael Anyadike-Danes, Mark Hart and Helena Lenihan

Volume 36, issue 3, 2011

Turbulence in growing and declining industries pp. 249-270

Rui Baptista and Murat Karaöz

Incumbent innovation and domestic entry pp. 271-279

Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich and Stefan Kipar

Career motives and entrepreneurial decision-making: examining preferences for causal and effectual logics in the early stage of new ventures pp. 281-298

Jonas Gabrielsson and Diamanto Politis

Group lending and the role of the group leader pp. 299-321

Remco Eijkel, Niels Hermes and Robert Lensink

The growth process of informal enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of a metalworking cluster in Nairobi pp. 323-335

Tetsushi Sonobe, John Akoten and Keijiro Otsuka

The shadow of death: analysing the pre-exit productivity of Portuguese manufacturing firms pp. 337-351

Carlos Carreira and Paulino Teixeira

The direct employment effects of new businesses in Germany revisited: an empirical investigation for 1976–2004 pp. 353-363

Yvonne Schindele and Antje Weyh

University spillovers and new business location in high-technology sectors: Spanish evidence pp. 365-376

Manuel Acosta, Daniel Coronado and Esther Flores

Volume 36, issue 2, 2011

Enacting entrepreneurship research in a pioneering, provocative and participative way: on the work of Bengt Johannisson pp. 123-134

Chris Steyaert and Hans Landström

Towards a practice theory of entrepreneuring pp. 135-150

Bengt Johannisson

A polymorphism associated with entrepreneurship: evidence from dopamine receptor candidate genes pp. 151-155

Nicos Nicolaou, Scott Shane, Georgina Adi, Massimo Mangino and Juliette Harris

Economic impact of a private sector micro-financing scheme in South Dakota pp. 157-168

David Benson, Aaron Lies, Albert Okunade and Phanindra Wunnava

Racial differences in self-employment exits pp. 169-186

Taehyun Ahn

The advantage of experienced start-up founders in venture capital acquisition: evidence from serial entrepreneurs pp. 187-208

Junfu Zhang

Financing the entrepreneurial decision: an empirical approach using experimental data on risk attitudes pp. 209-222

Julie Elston and David Audretsch

Who skims the cream of the Italian graduate crop? Wage employment versus self-employment pp. 223-234

Carolina Castagnetti and Luisa Rosti

Entrepreneurial strategy making, resources, and firm performance: evidence from China pp. 235-247

Zhongfeng Su, En Xie, Dong Wang and Yuan Li

Volume 36, issue 1, 2011

Public knowledge, private knowledge: the intellectual capital of entrepreneurs pp. 1-14

Albert Link and Christopher Ruhm

Entrepreneurship, job creation and wage growth pp. 15-32

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, Bertel Schjerning and Anders Sørensen

Teams developing business ideas: how member characteristics and conflict affect member-rated team effectiveness pp. 33-46

Maw- Der Foo

A model to study the organizational culture of the family firm pp. 47-64

Manuel Vallejo

R&D investment and financing constraints of small and medium-sized firms pp. 65-83

Dirk Czarnitzki and Hanna Hottenrott

Employment stability in newly founded firms: a matching approach using linked employer–employee data from Germany pp. 85-100

Claus Schnabel, Susanne Kohaut and Udo Brixy

The survival and success of Canadian penny stock IPOs pp. 101-121

Cécile Carpentier and Jean-Marc Suret

Volume 35, issue 4, 2010

A theory of serial entrepreneurship pp. 377-398

Jose Plehn-Dujowich

Small business strategy and the industry life cycle pp. 399-416

Martie-Louise Verreynne and Denny Meyer

When do venture capitalists collaborate? Evidence on the driving forces of venture capital syndication pp. 417-431

Christian Hopp

Country v sector effects in equity returns and the roles of geographical and firm-size coverage pp. 433-448

Lieven Moor and Piet Sercu

Does banking consolidation worsen firms’ access to credit? Evidence from the German economy pp. 449-465

Christian Schmieder, Katharina Marsch and Katrin Forster- van Aerssen

Investment–cash flow sensitivities, credit rationing and financing constraints in small and medium-sized firms pp. 467-497

Leonardo Becchetti, Annalisa Castelli and Iftekhar Hasan

Volume 35, issue 3, 2010

Josh Lerner: recipient of the 2010 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 245-254

Pontus Braunerhjelm and Simon Parker

The future of public efforts to boost entrepreneurship and venture capital pp. 255-264

Josh Lerner

Staging of venture capital investment: a real options analysis pp. 265-281

Yao-Wen Hsu

Economies of scale and the demand for money pp. 283-298

Paul Natke and Gregory Falls

Health insurance and job creation by the self-employed pp. 299-317

Aparna Mathur

Top management team characteristics, R&D investment and capital structure in the IT industry pp. 319-333

Hsiang-Lan Chen, Wen-Tsung Hsu and Yen-Sheng Huang

Is banking competition beneficial to SMEs? An empirical study based on Italian data pp. 335-355

Mariarosaria Agostino and Francesco Trivieri

Determinants of capital structure in Irish SMEs pp. 357-375

Ciarán Mac an Bhaird and Brian Lucey

Volume 35, issue 2, 2010

Growth beyond Gibrat: firm growth processes and strategies pp. 129-135

Erik Stam

One or more growth processes? Evidence from new Italian firms pp. 137-152

A. Bonaccorsi and S. Giannangeli

Firm size, age, industrial networking, and growth: a case of the Korean manufacturing industry pp. 153-168

Younsuk Park, Jaeun Shin and Taejong Kim

Generic strategies and firm performance in SMEs: a longitudinal study of Austrian SMEs pp. 169-189

Karl-Heinz Leitner and Stefan Güldenberg

Gibrat’s law and persistence of growth in Greek manufacturing pp. 191-202

Georgios Fotopoulos and Ioannis Giotopoulos

What happens to gazelles? The importance of dynamic management strategy pp. 203-226

Simon Parker, David Storey and Arjen Witteloostuijn

Gazelles as job creators: a survey and interpretation of the evidence pp. 227-244

Magnus Henrekson and Dan Johansson

Volume 35, issue 1, 2010

Genome-wide association studies in economics and entrepreneurship research: promises and limitations pp. 1-18

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

Perceptions regarding strategic and structural entry barriers pp. 19-33

Clemens Lutz, Ron Kemp and S. Gerhard Dijkstra

Labour market institutions, learning and self-employment pp. 35-52

Nikolaj Malchow-Møller, James Markusen and Jan Skaksen

Pecking order and debt capacity considerations for high-growth companies seeking financing pp. 53-69

Tom Vanacker and Sophie Manigart

Start-ups by the unemployed: characteristics, survival and direct employment effects pp. 71-92

Marco Caliendo and Alexander Kritikos

Using Transaction Cost Economics to explain outsourcing of accounting pp. 93-112

Patricia Everaert, Gerrit Sarens and Jan Rommel

Credit guarantees and SME efficiency pp. 113-128

Antonio García-Tabuenca and Jose Crespo-Espert