Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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

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Gender as a Determinant of Small Business Performance: Insights from a British Study pp. 463-78: Peter Rosa, Sara Carter and Daphne Hamilton

Industry Competition and Firm Human Capital pp. 347-64: Christophe Boone and Arjen van Witteloostuijn

Downsizing and Productivity Growth: Myth or Reality? pp. 259-78: Martin Neil Baily, Eric Bartelsman and John Haltiwanger
Small Business and Job Creation: Dissecting the Myth and Reassessing the Facts pp. 297-315: Steven Davis, John Haltiwanger and Scott Schuh
Small Business and Job Creation: A Comment pp. 317-22: Martin Carree and Luuk Klomp

Property Rights and Entrepreneurship in Science pp. 177-88: Paula Stephan and Sharon Levin
Firm Size, Small Business Presence and Sales of Innovative Products: A Micro-econometric Analysis pp. 189-201: Erik Brouwer and Alfred Kleinknecht
Innovation of Entrepreneurial Firms pp. 203-18: Zoltan Acs and Sharon Gifford
Firms Size and R&D Spillovers: Evidence from Italy pp. 249-58: David Audretsch and Marco Vivarelli

Evaluating Small Firm Performance in Local Context: A Case Study of Manufacturers in Columbus, Ohio pp. 139-57: Nancy Ettlinger and Michelle Tufford

Growing Firms and the Credit Constraint pp. 17-25: Martin R Binks and Christine T Ennew
Small Firm Growth, Access to Capital Markets and Financial Structure: Review of Issues and an Empirical Investigation pp. 59-67: Francis Chittenden, Graham Hall and Patrick Hutchinson

Problems and Environment of Small Businesses in the Czech Republic pp. 437-50: Vladimir Benacek and Alena Zemplinerova
Business Strategies and the Small Professional Firm: Evidence from the Conveyancing Market pp. 457-68: James H Love, Frank H Stephen and Alan A Paterson

Symposium on Harrison's "Lean and Mean": A Policy Perspective pp. 353-56: John de la Mothe, Gilles Paquet and Jeffrey Roy
Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Union and Post-Socialist Russia pp. 365-76: Alexander I Ageev, Mikhail V Gratchev and Robert D Hisrich
Explaining Regional Variation in Business Births and Deaths: U.S. 1976-88 pp. 389-407: Paul D Reynolds, Brenda Miller and Wilbur R Maki

Networks and Small Business Growth: An Explanatory Model pp. 273-89: Rik Donckels and Johan Lambrecht
Small Firms, Business Dynamics and Differential Development of Economic Well-Being pp. 301-15: Per Davidsson, Leif Lindmark and Christer Olofsson
Employment Generation by Small Producers in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector pp. 317-31: John Baldwin and Garnett Picot

Firm-Size Wage Differentials in the Netherlands pp. 173-82: Hessel Oosterbeek and Mirjam Praag
The Determinants of Firm Start-up and Entry in Italian Producer Services pp. 221-30: Enrico Santarelli and Roberta Piergiovanni
Small Local Firms inside the Supply Chain: Challenges and Perspectives pp. 241-49: Alberto De Toni, Guido Nassimbeni and Stefano Tonchia

Job Generation and New and Small Firms: Some Evidence from the Late 1980s pp. 97-109: Mark Hart and Eric Hanvey
Employment Change in Independent Owner-Managed High-Technology Firms in Great Britain pp. 111-40: Paul Westhead and Marc Cowling
Factors Influencing Take-Up Rates on the Loan Guarantee Scheme pp. 141-52: Marc Cowling and Nick Clay
Closing the Regional Equity Capital Gap: The Role of Informal Venture Capital pp. 153-72: Colin M Mason and Richard T Harrison

The Remuneration of Non-owner Managers in UK Unquoted and Unlisted Securities Market Enterprises: An Empirical Analysis of Firm Specific, Human Capital and Job History Influences pp. 1-13: David Storey, Robert Watson and Pooran Wynarczyk
Underpricing in New Equity Listings: A Conceptual Re-appraisal pp. 41-54: Kevin Keasey and Paul McGuinness
The Operation of the Insolvency System in the U.K.: Some Implications for Entrepreneurialism pp. 55-66: Bryan Gladstone and Jennifer Lane Lee
The Internationalization Process in the Small and Medium Sized Firms: A Case Study on the Italian Clothing Industry pp. 67-75: Lorenzo Berra, Laura Piatti and Giampaolo Vitali

New-Firm Startups, Technology, and Macroeconomic Fluctuations pp. 439-49: David Audretsch and Zoltan Acs
The Pattern of Changes in the Long-Term Development of Establishment Size pp. 451-63: Reinhard Stockman and Rene Leicht
Evaluation of Industrial Policy--The Case of the Swedish Textile and Clothing Industry pp. 465-75: Sverker Alange and Staffan Jacobsson

The Bank Financing of Small Firms in UK: Issues and Evidence pp. 349-62: Kevin Keasey and Robert Watson
Small Firm Effect: Evidence from Korean Stock Exchange pp. 373-79: Yan-Leung Cheung, Yiu-Ming Leung and Kwok-Fai Wong
A Reconciliation of the Unemployment--New Firm Startup Paradox pp. 381-85: David Audretsch and Jim Jin

The 1986 U.K. Insolvency and Company Directors' Disqualification Acts: An Evaluation of Their Impacts upon Small Firm Financing Decisions pp. 257-66: Kevin Keasey and Robert Watson
The Interrelationships between Births and Deaths pp. 283-90: Peter Johnson and Simon Parker
High Tech Manufacturing: Firm Size, Industry and Population Density pp. 291-97: Ernie Goss and George S Vozikis
Change in the Size Distribution of U.K. Firms pp. 299-312: Geoffrey B Robson and Colin C Gallagher
The Role of Planning in Small Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Service Industry pp. 313-22: Peter Risseeuw and Enno Masurel

Promoting Entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe pp. 165-84: Laura d'Andrea Tyson, Tea Petrin and Frederic Rogers
Flexible Technology and Industrial Structure in the U.S pp. 193-209: Bo Carlsson and Erol Taymaz
Directors' Ownership and the Performance of Small and Medium Sized Firms in the U.K pp. 225-36: Kevin Keasey, Helen Short and Robert Watson

Special Issue on Birth and Start-Up of New Firms: Empirical Evidence: Introduction pp. 79-80: Giuliano Mussati, Andrea Fumagalli and Marco Vivarelli
An Econometric Test of the Self-Employment Model: The Case of Italy pp. 81-93: Alessandro Foti and Marco Vivarelli
New Firm Formation in Italian Industry: 1985-89 pp. 95-106: Enrico Santarelli and Alessandro Sterlacchini
The Dynamics of Entry, Exit and Profitability: An Error Correction Approach for the Retail Industry pp. 107-16: Martin Carree and Roy Thurik
New Firm Location: An Equilibrium Model and Its Disequilibrium Dynamics pp. 151-63: Alberto Bramanti and Riccardo Girardi

A Longitudinal Analysis of the Young Self-Employed in Australia and the United States pp. 1-19: David Blanchflower and Bruce Meyer