Small Business Economics

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Volume 61, issue 4, 2023

Per Davidsson: recipient of the 2023 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 1381-1390

David J. Storey, Martin Andersson, Magnus Henrekson, Sarah Jack, Mikael Stenkula, Karin Thorburn, Caroline Wigren-Kristoferson and Ivo Zander

Making contributions: personal reflections from the co-creative evolution of entrepreneurship research pp. 1391-1410

Per Davidsson

Unemployment benefits, entrepreneurship policies, and new business creation pp. 1411-1436

Irina Bilan and Constantin-Marius Apostoaie

Ownership, governance, and internationalization in family firms: a replication and extension pp. 1437-1459

Francesco Debellis, Michele Pinelli, Marcel Hülsbeck and Anne Heider

Does democracy foster entrepreneurship? pp. 1461-1495

Luca Farè, David B. Audretsch and Marcus Dejardin

Network-based principles of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a case study of a start-up network pp. 1497-1514

Andrea Ancona, Matteo Cinelli, Giovanna Ferraro and Antonio Iovanella

Transport endowment, knowledge spillovers and firm performance in emerging economies pp. 1515-1541

Angela Stefania Bergantino, Claudia Capozza and Ada Spiru

Gender and innovation at the US National Institutes of Health pp. 1543-1553

Farhat Chowdhury, Albert Link and Anne Beeson Royalty

Competition and firm recovery post-COVID-19 pp. 1555-1586

Miriam Bruhn, Asli Demirguc-Kunt and Dorothe Singer

The role of fields of study for the effects of higher education institutions on regional firm location pp. 1587-1656

Tobias Schlegel and Uschi Backes-Gellner

Government investments and entrepreneurship pp. 1657-1670

João Ricardo Faria, Laudo Ogura, Mauricio Prado and Christopher Boudreaux

Does climate risk affect entrepreneurial growth aspirations? The moderating effects of gender and solo-founded ventures pp. 1671-1692

Wenping Ye, Zhongfeng Su and Hongjia Ma

Technological progress, financial constrains, and digital financial inclusion pp. 1693-1721

Ding Hu, Xianming Fang and Yuting Meng DiGiovanni

Stuck in short-term, daily operations, or not?: Unraveling SME’s long-term orientation pp. 1723-1745

Radityo Putro Handrito, Hendrik Slabbinck and Johanna Vanderstraeten

Estimating tax noncompliance among the self-employed—evidence from pleasure boat registers pp. 1747-1771

Per Engström, Johannes Hagen and Edvard Johansson

R&D responses to labor cost shock in China: does firm size matter? pp. 1773-1793

Chih-Hai Yang

Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter? pp. 1795-1844

Ying Sophie Huang, Buhui Qiu, Jiajia Wu and Juan Yao

Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China pp. 1845-1869

Linlin Fan, Tingfeng Tang and Gongyan Yang

Volume 61, issue 3, 2023

The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance pp. 869-889

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos and Claudia Stier

Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review pp. 891-908

Muneer Alshater, Mayank Joshipura, Rim El Khoury and Nohade Nasrallah

A ‘deviant men’ theory of business expectations in nascent entrepreneurs pp. 909-930

Alona Martiarena, Jonathan Levie, Susan Marlow, Mark Hart and Karen Bonner

The Paycheck Protection Program and small business performance: Evidence from craft breweries pp. 931-956

Aaron J. Staples and Thomas Krumel

Responding to unexpected crises: The roles of slack resources and entrepreneurial attitude to build resilience pp. 957-981

Elisa Conz, Giovanna Magnani, Antonella Zucchella and Alfredo Massis

Are family firms more efficient? Revisiting the U-shaped curve of scale and efficiency pp. 983-1008

Ku-Hsieh Chen, Pei-Hwa Chen, Julie Ann Elston and Yingchao Zhang

After successful fundraising: how overfunding and category spanning affect the release and audience-perceived quality of crowdfunded products pp. 1009-1026

Clarissa E. Weber, Norbert Steigenberger and Hendrik Wilhelm

Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups pp. 1027-1051

Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Daniel Rodríguez and Claudia Stier

SME viability in the COVID-19 recovery pp. 1053-1074

Fergal McCann, Niall McGeever and Fang Yao

Community-level social capital and investment decisions in equity crowdfunding pp. 1075-1110

Massimiliano Barbi, Valentina Febo and Giancarlo Giudici

Overeducation, natural amenities, and entrepreneurship pp. 1111-1131

Tessa Conroy and Philip Watson

New ventures fighting the war for talents: the impact of product innovativeness and entrepreneurs’ passion on applicant attraction pp. 1133-1159

Evila Piva and Silvia Stroe

Right of association and new business entry: country-level evidence from the market sector pp. 1161-1177

Pankaj C. Patel and Cornelius A. Rietveld

Persistence of culture: how the entrepreneurial culture of origin contributes to migrant entrepreneurship pp. 1179-1204

Huan Yang and Xinning Zhang

How does government-backed finance affect SMEs’ crisis predictors? pp. 1205-1229

Lorenzo Gai, Maria Cristina Arcuri and Federica Ielasi

Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms pp. 1231-1251

Ricarda B. Bouncken, Martin Ratzmann and Jeffrey G. Covin

ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance pp. 1253-1288

Marie Finnegan and Supriya Kapoor

Colonialism versus independence—the role of entrepreneurial ecosystems in Azerbaijan over time pp. 1289-1336

Ganira Ibrahimova and Petra Moog

Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs pp. 1337-1355

Alice Civera and Michele Meoli

Explaining academic entrepreneurial motivation in China: the role of regional policy, organizational support, and individual characteristics pp. 1357-1378

Wei Zhou, Min Jiang and Hailunbeier Li

Correction to: The Three-Case Argument against the Moral Justificatory Significance of Basic Desert pp. 1379-1379

Silvia Muzi, Filip Jolevski, Kohei Ueda and Domenico Viganola

Volume 61, issue 2, 2023

Female entrepreneurs managing from home pp. 447-464

Oluwasheyi Oladipo, Katarzyna Platt and Hyoung Suk Shim

Taking mental models seriously: institutions, entrepreneurship, and the mediating role of socio-cognitive traits pp. 465-493

Christopher Boudreaux, Daniel L. Bennett, David S. Lucas and Boris N. Nikolaev

Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order pp. 495-515

Katrien Jansen, Anneleen Michiels, Wim Voordeckers and Tensie Steijvers

Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems pp. 517-538

Daniel Prokop and Piers Thompson

Causal effects of a tax incentive on SME capital investment pp. 539-557

Kaoru Hosono, Masaki Hotei and Daisuke Miyakawa

Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs? pp. 559-586

Ana Paula Matias Gama, Ricardo Emanuel Correia, Mário Augusto and Fábio Duarte

The relationship between business regulation and nascent and young business entrepreneurship revisited pp. 587-616

Ioscha Cordier and Marco Bade

Linkages between regional characteristics and small businesses viability pp. 617-629

Colleen Casey, Timothy Bates and Joseph Farhat

Digital platforms and entrepreneurial support: a field experiment in online mentoring pp. 631-654

Saurabh A. Lall, Li-Wei Chen and Dyana P. Mason

Venture creation in the aftermath of COVID-19: The impact of US governor party affiliation and discretion pp. 655-674

Cameron J. Borgholthaus, Joshua V. White, Erik Markin and Vishal K. Gupta

Hiring family or non-family managers when non-economic (sustainability) goals matter? A multitask agency model pp. 675-700

Jenny Kragl, Alberto Palermo, Guoqian Xi and Joern Block

Emotional demands and entrepreneurial burnout: the role of autonomy and job satisfaction pp. 701-716

Yosr Ben Tahar, Nada Rejeb, Adnane Maalaoui, Sascha Kraus, Paul Westhead and Paul Jones

Does education enhance entrepreneurship? pp. 717-743

Kunwon Ahn and John Winters

Persistence in firm growth: inference from conditional quantile transition matrices pp. 745-770

Giulio Bottazzi, Taewon Kang and Federico Tamagni

Artificial intelligence and radical innovation: an opportunity for all companies? pp. 771-797

Nils Grashof and Alexander Kopka

How scientists interpret and address funding criteria: value creation and undesirable side effects pp. 799-826

Conor O’Kane, Jing A. Zhang, Jarrod Haar and James A. Cunningham

Ownership succession intentions affecting earnings management in private family firms pp. 827-842

Ine Umans and Maarten Corten

The angels’ share hypothesis in new firms pp. 843-865

Ikenna Uzuegbunam, Brandon Ofem, Joe Fox and Satish Nambisan

Correction to: The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms pp. 867-867

Julia K. Groote, Sabrina Schell, Nadine Kammerlander and Andreas Hack

Volume 61, issue 1, 2023

Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research pp. 1-10

Nicolai J. Foss, Martin Andersson, Magnus Henrekson, Sarah Jack, Mikael Stenkula, Karin Thorburn and Ivo Zander

Questions worth asking for futures worth making: an effectual approach pp. 11-21

Saras Sarasvathy

Different response paths to organizational resilience pp. 23-58

Dean A. Shepherd and Trenton A. Williams

What drives the valuation of entrepreneurial ventures? A map to navigate the literature and research directions pp. 59-84

Massimo G. Colombo, Benedetta Montanaro and Silvio Vismara

It is not because it is offered that it is used: an investigation into firm-level determinants of use intensity of buffering services in science parks pp. 85-104

Laura Lecluyse, Mirjam Knockaert and Annelore Huyghe

The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses pp. 105-126

Chitra Singla and Ludvig Levasseur

I believe I can fly: how target venture CEO overconfidence affects acquisition completion pp. 127-151

David H. Weng and Yasuhiro Yamakawa

Entrepreneurial ecosystems and industry knowledge: does the winning region take all? pp. 153-172

Yating Li, Martin Kenney, Donald Patton and Abraham Song

Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda pp. 173-221

Douglas Cumming, Satish Kumar, Weng Marc Lim and Nitesh Pandey

Global value chains, financial constraints, and innovation pp. 223-257

Rawan Elshaarawy and Riham Ezzat

Founder affiliations: jobseeker reactions and impact on employee recruitment by start-up ventures pp. 259-283

Seung Hoon D. Chung and Simon C. Parker

Historiography and the excavation of nascent business venturing pp. 285-303

Wim Van Lent, Richard A. Hunt and Daniel A. Lerner

Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs pp. 305-323

Michael H. Morris, Sohrab Soleimanof and Reginald Tucker

Does digitalization sufficiently empower female entrepreneurs? Evidence from their online gender identities and crowdfunding performance pp. 325-348

Yalin Wang, Yaokuang Li, Juan Wu, Li Ling and Dan Long

Accountants in family firms—a systematic literature review pp. 349-388

Mattias Sandgren, Timur Uman and Mattias Nordqvist

Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures pp. 389-413

Romi Kher, Shu Yang and Scott L. Newbert

Correction: Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures pp. 415-415

Romi Kher, Shu Yang and Scott L. Newbert

Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment pp. 417-443

Petrik Runst and Jörg Thomä

Correction to: Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment pp. 445-445

Petrik Runst and Jörg Thomä