Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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

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Volume 34, issue 4, 2010

Gibrat’s law and the learning process pp. 355-373

Mercedes Teruel-Carrizosa

The institutional environment and the number of bank relationships: an empirical analysis of European SMEs pp. 375-390

Ginés Hernández-Cánovas and Johanna Koëter-Kant

Economic creativity and innovation implementation: the entrepreneurial drivers of growth? Evidence from 63 countries pp. 391-412

Leslie Williams and Stephen McGuire

Downsizing in the German chemical manufacturing industry during the 1990s. Why is small beautiful? pp. 413-431

Oleg Badunenko

Information asymmetry and small business in online auction market pp. 433-444

Chia-Hung Sun and Kang Liu

Testing a model of signals in the IPO offer process pp. 445-463

David Williams, W. Duncan and Peter Ginter

Relationship lending and SME financing in the continental European bank-based system pp. 465-482

Ginés Hernández-Cánovas and Pedro Martínez-Solano

Volume 34, issue 3, 2010

The effect of clusters on the survival and performance of new firms pp. 221-241

Karl Wennberg and Göran Lindqvist

Collateral, relationship lending and family firms pp. 243-259

Tensie Steijvers, Wim Voordeckers and Koen Vanhoof

Intergenerational transmissions in immigrant self-employment: Evidence from three generations pp. 261-276

Lina Andersson and Mats Hammarstedt

Resources access needs and capabilities as mediators of the relationship between VC firm size and syndication pp. 277-291

Ernst Verwaal, Hans Bruining, Mike Wright, Sophie Manigart and Andy Lockett

Changes in the banking system and small business lending pp. 293-308

David Vera and Kazuki Onji

Microfinance, subsidies and local externalities pp. 309-321

Leonardo Becchetti and Fabio Pisani

Patterns of ethnic self-employment in time and space: evidence from British Census microdata pp. 323-338

Ken Clark and Stephen Drinkwater

Economic performance of Brazilian manufacturing firms: a counterfactual analysis of innovation impacts pp. 339-353

Sergio Kannebley, Júlia Sekkel and Bruno Araújo

Volume 34, issue 2, 2010

The missing link: knowledge diffusion and entrepreneurship in endogenous growth pp. 105-125

Pontus Braunerhjelm, Zoltan Acs, David Audretsch and Bo Carlsson

The role of clustering in the growth of new technology-based firms pp. 127-146

Elicia Maine, Daniel Shapiro and Aidan Vining

Process innovations and firm productivity growth pp. 147-166

María Rochina-Barrachina, Juan A. Mañez and Juan Sanchis-Llopis

Gender and field of study as determinants of self-employment pp. 167-185

Thomas Leoni and Martin Falk

Corporate taxes and the demand for labor and capital in developing countries pp. 187-201

Rodrigo Cerda and Felipe Larrain

Resource dependency and institutional theory perspectives on direct and indirect export choices pp. 203-220

Jolanda Hessels and Siri Terjesen

Volume 34, issue 1, 2010

Entrepreneurship, developing countries, and development economics: new approaches and insights pp. 1-12

Wim Naudé

Entrepreneurship and structural economic transformation pp. 13-29

Thomas Gries and Wim Naudé

High-growth entrepreneurial firms in Africa: a quantile regression approach pp. 31-51

Micheline Goedhuys and Leo Sleuwaegen

Informal firms in developing countries: entrepreneurial stepping stone or consolation prize? pp. 53-63

John Bennett

Entrepreneurship and welfare pp. 65-79

Jagannadha Tamvada

Entrepreneurship and income inequality in southern Ethiopia pp. 81-91

Ayal Kimhi

Credit constraints, entrepreneurial talent, and economic development pp. 93-104

Milo Bianchi

Volume 33, issue 4, 2009

Gender differences in business performance: evidence from the Characteristics of Business Owners survey pp. 375-395

Robert Fairlie and Alicia Robb

A comparison of new firm financing by gender: evidence from the Kauffman Firm Survey data pp. 397-411

Susan Coleman and Alicia Robb

Ethnic enclaves and the earnings of self-employed Latinos pp. 413-425

Michael Aguilera

Latina entrepreneurship pp. 427-439

Magnus Lofstrom and Timothy Bates

Firm racial segregation and affirmative action in the highway construction industry pp. 441-453

Justin Marion

The impact of education histories on the decision to become self-employed: a study of young, aspiring, minority business owners pp. 455-466

M. Thomas

Racial segregation in the public schools and adult labor market outcomes: the case of black Americans pp. 467-484

Gregory Fairchild

The impact of institutional sources of capital upon the minority-oriented venture capital industry pp. 485-496

Timothy Bates and William Bradford

Volume 33, issue 3, 2009

Testing a model of exploration and exploitation as innovation strategies pp. 257-272

Emmanuelle Fauchart and Max Keilbach

Allocation and productivity of time in new ventures of female and male entrepreneurs pp. 273-291

Ingrid Verheul, Martin Carree and Roy Thurik

Union power, entrepreneurial risk, and entrepreneurship pp. 293-302

Vesa Kanniainen and Mikko Leppämäki

The importance of equity finance for R&D activity pp. 303-318

Elisabeth Müller and Volker Zimmermann

Are the determinants of capital structure country or firm specific? pp. 319-333

Maria Psillaki and Nikolaos Daskalakis

Evaluation of credit guarantee policy using propensity score matching pp. 335-351

Inha Oh, Jeong-Dong Lee, Almas Heshmati and Gyoung-Gyu Choi

The influence of family ownership on SME performance: evidence from public firms in Taiwan pp. 353-373

Wenyi Chu

Volume 33, issue 2, 2009

In Partnership with The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 129-130

Zoltan Acs and David Audretsch

Scott A. Shane: winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 131-140

Per Davidsson and Johan Wiklund

Why encouraging more people to become entrepreneurs is bad public policy pp. 141-149

Scott Shane

Screening item effects in estimating the prevalence of nascent entrepreneurs pp. 151-163

Paul Reynolds

Internationalisation of technology-oriented firms in Germany and the UK pp. 165-187

Helmut Fryges

Defending against rival innovation pp. 189-206

Richard Arend

Absorptive capacity and R&D tax policy: Are in-house and external contract R&D substitutes or complements? pp. 207-227

Todd Watkins and Lolita Paff

Does venture opportunity variation matter? Investigating systematic process differences between innovative and imitative new ventures pp. 229-255

Mikael Samuelsson and Per Davidsson

Volume 33, issue 1, 2009

Foreword pp. 1-1

Janez Potočnik

R&D in SMEs: a paradox? pp. 3-11

Raquel Ortega-Argiles, Marco Vivarelli and Peter Voigt

Innovation and productivity in SMEs: empirical evidence for Italy pp. 13-33

Bronwyn Hall, Francesca Lotti and Jacques Mairesse

Innovation success of non-R&D-performers: substituting technology by management in SMEs pp. 35-58

Christian Rammer, Dirk Czarnitzki and Alfred Spielkamp

Is the R&D behaviour of fast-growing SMEs different? Evidence from CIS III data for 16 countries pp. 59-75

Werner Hölzl

The roles of R&D in new firm growth pp. 77-89

Erik Stam and Karl Wennberg

Effectiveness of R&D tax incentives in small and large enterprises in Québec pp. 91-107

Rufin Baghana and Pierre Mohnen

Overcoming the double hurdles to investing in technology pp. 109-128

Erol Taymaz and Yeşim Üçdoğruk