Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 60, issue 4, 2023

The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises pp. 1307-1322

Frank Lambrechts, Jolien Huybrechts, Alfredo Massis and Erik E. Lehmann

Social network research in the family business literature: a review and integration pp. 1323-1345

Victoria Antin Yates, James M. Vardaman and James J. Chrisman

The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms pp. 1347-1367

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

How family firms use governance mechanisms to mitigate the risks of ecosystems: a case study from healthcare pp. 1369-1388

Dieudonnee Cobben, Petra C. M. Neessen, Diana Rus and Nadine Roijakkers

Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation pp. 1389-1408

Taewoo Kim, Jennifer C. Sexton and Laura E. Marler

Overcoming the ability-willingness paradox in small family firms’ collaborations pp. 1409-1429

Christina Guenther, Maksim Belitski and Nada Rejeb

Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective pp. 1431-1448

Francesco Debellis, Mariateresa Torchia, Fabio Quarato and Andrea Calabrò

Openness to knowledge: does corporate social responsibility mediate the relationship between familiness and absorptive capacity? pp. 1449-1482

Laura Pütz, Sabrina Schell and Arndt Werner

Natural disasters, entrepreneurship activity, and the moderating role of country governance pp. 1483-1508

Christopher Boudreaux, Anand Jha and Monica Escaleras

Effective policy mixes in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a configurational analysis in China pp. 1509-1542

Hongqi Wang, Tianyi Zhao, Sarah Y. Cooper, Shanshan Wang, Richard T. Harrison and Zhongji Yang

Gender productivity gap: does gender-equal ownership compensate for female entrepreneurs’ lack of prior industry experience? pp. 1543-1571

Douwere Grekou, Jenny Watt and Horatio Morgan

Power and entrepreneurship pp. 1573-1592

David B. Audretsch and Antje Fiedler

Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship pp. 1593-1612

David B. Audretsch and Erik E. Lehmann

Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic? pp. 1613-1629

Robert Fairlie, Frank Fossen, Reid Johnsen and Gentian Droboniku

Small grant subsidy application effects on productivity improvement: evidence from Japanese SMEs pp. 1631-1658

Kohei Takahashi and Yuki Hashimoto

Does competition from informal firms hurt job creation by formal manufacturing SMEs in developing and emerging countries? Evidence using firm-level survey data pp. 1659-1681

Mohammad Amin

Spatial variations in financial constraints of SMEs—evidence from firm-level estimates of investment-cash flow sensitivities in Sweden pp. 1683-1698

Martin Andersson, Johan E. Eklund and Alexandra Tsvetkova

Digital economic activity and resilience for metros and small businesses during Covid-19 pp. 1699-1717

Karen Mossberger, Nicholas F. Martini, Meredith McCullough and Caroline J. Tolbert

Productivity and firm exit during the COVID-19 crisis: cross-country evidence pp. 1719-1760

Silvia Muzi, Filip Jolevski, Kohei Ueda and Domenico Viganola

Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship pp. 1761-1783

Sang-Min Park and Nicholas S. Vonortas

Volume 60, issue 3, 2023

Lean scholarship pp. 843-863

Dean A. Shepherd and Holger Patzelt

Entrepreneurship, the initial labor force, and the location of new firms pp. 865-890

Cristina Carias, Steven Klepper and Rui Baptista

Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms pp. 891-900

Joshua C. R. Fletcher, Eric S. Howard, Albert Link and Alan C. O’Connor

A contingency model of employees’ turnover intent in young ventures pp. 901-927

Anne Domurath, Simon Taggar and Holger Patzelt

Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross-countries study pp. 929-946

Linda Elizabeth Ruiz, José Ernesto Amorós and Maribel Guerrero

Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study pp. 947-974

David Clingingsmith, Will Drover and Scott Shane

Assessing the impact of the EIB’s intermediated lending to SMEs during funding shocks pp. 975-1007

Raschid Amamou, Áron Gereben and Marcin Wolski

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related policies on new firm creation: an analysis of the Italian case pp. 1009-1031

Evila Piva and Massimiliano Guerini

Crowdfunding investors, intermediaries and risky entrepreneurs pp. 1033-1050

Eric Tassel

Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems pp. 1051-1079

Allan O’Connor and David Audretsch

How relative marginal tax rates affect establishment entry at state borders pp. 1081-1103

Yulong Chen, Kevin D. Duncan, Liyuan Ma and Peter F. Orazem

Proximity and inter-firm corruption: A transaction cost approach pp. 1105-1120

Roberta Troisi and Gaetano Alfano

Ownership types, institutions, and the internationalization of emerging economy new ventures: evidence from Africa pp. 1121-1145

Gonzalo Molina-Sieiro, Katia M. Galdino and R. Michael Holmes

Distinguishing unpredictability from uncertainty in entrepreneurial action theory pp. 1147-1169

Ryan W. Angus, Mark D. Packard and Brent B. Clark

Help from the past—coworker ties and entry wages after self-employment pp. 1171-1196

Emma Lappi

Economic preferences and temperament traits among business leaders and paid employees pp. 1197-1217

Mikko Vaaramo, Leena Ala-Mursula, Jouko Miettunen and Marko Korhonen

Skill-biased acquisitions? Human capital and employee mobility in small technology firms pp. 1219-1247

Jing Xiao and Åsa Lindholm Dahlstrand

The identity of social impact venture capitalists: exploring social linguistic positioning and linguistic distinctiveness through text mining pp. 1249-1280

Laura Toschi, Elisa Ughetto and Andrea Fronzetti Colladon

Three waves of immigrant entrepreneurship: a cross-national comparative study pp. 1281-1306

Naveed Yasin and Khalid Hafeez

Volume 60, issue 2, 2023

My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy pp. 409-431

Shamsul Karim, Caleb Kwong, Mili Shrivastava and Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada

Entrepreneurial organizing activities and nascent venture performance pp. 433-461

Anna Long, Matthew S. Wood and Daniel L. Bennett

Being your own boss and bossing others: the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees pp. 463-483

Milena Nikolova, Boris Nikolaev and Christopher Boudreaux

Gender bias in high stakes pitching: an NLP approach pp. 485-502

Indu Khurana and Daniel Lee

Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies pp. 503-519

Maribel Guerrero and Radzivon Marozau

The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective pp. 521-535

Mingzhi Hu, Zhongfeng Su and Wenping Ye

The struggle of small firms to retain high-skill workers: job duration and the importance of knowledge intensity pp. 537-572

Hugo Castro-Silva and Francisco Lima

Does the entrepreneurial state crowd out entrepreneurship? pp. 573-589

David B. Audretsch and Antje Fiedler

Gender differences in business performance: evidence from Kenya and South Africa pp. 591-614

Tesfaye T. Lemma, Tendai Gwatidzo and Mthokozisi Mlilo

Entrepreneurial exit intentions in emerging economies: a neoinstitutional perspective pp. 615-638

Marta Widz and Nadine Kammerlander

Productivity growth over the business cycle: cleansing effects of recessions pp. 639-657

Jeroen Van den bosch and Stijn Vanormelingen

Topic-based classification and identification of global trends for startup companies pp. 659-689

Ivan Savin, Kristina Chukavina and Andrey Pushkarev

The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries pp. 691-705

Mariacristina Piva, Max Tani and Marco Vivarelli

Industrial policy, innovative entrepreneurship, and the human capital of founders pp. 707-728

Luca Grilli, Boris Mrkajic and Emanuele Giraudo

In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand pp. 729-743

André Pahnke, Friederike Welter and David B. Audretsch

Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa pp. 745-769

Maty Konte and Godsway Korku Tetteh

High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth pp. 771-811

Marta Bisztray, Francesca de Nicola and Balazs Murakozy

Graduation of initial public offering firms from junior stock markets: evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange pp. 813-841

Yuji Honjo and Koki Kurihara

Volume 60, issue 1, 2023

Pioneering management buy-out and entrepreneurial finance research: Mike Wright’s research legacy pp. 1-35

Aurélie Sannajust and Alexander Groh

Bribery, on-the-job training, and firm performance pp. 37-58

Spyridon Boikos, Mehmet Pinar and Thanasis Stengos

The economics of PIPEs, revisited pp. 59-83

Paul P. Momtaz

Evolution of micro and small enterprises’ work safety behavior in high-risk industries pp. 85-104

Wen Li, Tong Zhou, Qiang Mei, Xiangyang Liu and Muhammad Imran

The role of entrepreneurial absorptive capacity for knowledge spillover entrepreneurship pp. 105-120

Ronja Kirschning and Matthias Mrożewski

An empirical examination of firm growth in the MENA region through the lens of Gibrat’s law pp. 121-131

Julie Ann Elston and Alois Weidinger

Graduates of venture creation programs – where do they apply their entrepreneurial competencies? pp. 133-155

Gry Alsos, Gustav Hägg, Mats Lundqvist, Diamanto Politis, Martin Stockhaus, Karen Williams-Middleton and Kari Djupdal

Is managerial discretion high in small firms? A theoretical framework pp. 157-172

Andres Felipe Cortes and Andreea N. Kiss

Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids pp. 173-198

John Hagedoorn, Helen Haugh, Paul Robson and Kate Sugar

Entrepreneurs’ actions and venture success: a structured literature review and suggestions for future research pp. 199-226

Susan Müller, Alyssa Lara Kirst, Heiko Bergmann and Barbara Bird

Does foreign ownership promote environmental protection? Evidence from firm-level data pp. 227-244

Jacint Balaguer, Ana Cuadros and Jose Garcia-Quevedo

Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy pp. 245-263

Wendy D. Chen

What restricts SMEs from adopting sophisticated capital budgeting practices? pp. 265-290

Riya Sureka, Satish Kumar, Deepraj Mukherjee and Christina Theodoraki

Productivity dynamics in the retail trade sector: the roles of large modern retailers and small entrants pp. 291-313

Janghee Cho, Hyunbae Chun and Yoonsoo Lee

Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda pp. 315-350

Solomon Akele Abebe

The penalty of work from home: gender gap in productivity of unorganised manufacturing firms in India pp. 351-369

Saheli Bose

The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans pp. 371-403

Xue Yang, Hao Zhang, Die Hu and Bingde Wu

Correction: The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans pp. 405-407

Xue Yang, Hao Zhang, Die Hu and Bingde Wu