Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 59, issue 4, 2022

The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs pp. 1301-1326

Abeer Alomani, Rui Baptista and Suma Athreye

Has previous loan rejection scarred firms from applying for loans during Covid-19? pp. 1327-1350

Marc Cowling, Weixi Liu and Raffaella Calabrese

Contextualizing small business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from small business owner-managers pp. 1351-1380

Elias Hadjielias, Michael Christofi and Shlomo Tarba

Examining the cohesiveness and nestedness entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from British FinTechs pp. 1381-1399

Ben Spigel

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an Asian perspective pp. 1401-1426

Muhammad Naveed Iftikhar, Jonathan B. Justice and David B. Audretsch

Working with women, do men get all the credit? pp. 1427-1447

Shusen Qi, Steven Ongena and Hua Cheng

Education, social identity and self-employment over time: evidence from a developing country pp. 1449-1468

Jagannadha Pawan Tamvada, Mili Shrivastava and Tapas Mishra

Becoming an academic entrepreneur: how scientists develop an entrepreneurial identity pp. 1469-1487

Christopher S. Hayter, Bruno Fischer and Einar Rasmussen

Innovation and borrower discouragement in SMEs pp. 1489-1517

Ross Brown, José M. Liñares-Zegarra and John Wilson

Crowdfunding to overcome the immigrant entrepreneurs’ liability of outsidership: the role of internal social capital pp. 1519-1540

Vincenzo Butticè and Diego Useche

Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda pp. 1541-1565

David Urbano, Andreu Turro, Mike Wright and Shaker Zahra

SME participation in research grant consortia—the emergence of coordinated attention in collaborative innovation pp. 1567-1592

Christoph Grimpe, Wolfgang Sofka and Andreas P. Distel

Tech on the ROC: export threshold and technology adoption interacted pp. 1593-1611

Stefano Costa, Federico Sallusti, Claudio Vicarelli and Davide Zurlo

The external effects of offshoring on job security in SMEs pp. 1613-1640

Zouheir El-Sahli, Joakim Gullstrand and Karin Olofsdotter

Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes pp. 1641-1659

Aric Xu Wang and Kevin Zheng Zhou

Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture pp. 1661-1685

Narda R. Quigley and Pankaj C. Patel

Volume 59, issue 3, 2022

Enter the Prince of Denmark: Entrepreneurship for a Resilient and Sustainable Economy pp. 773-779

Mark Sanders

COVID-19 and the global venture capital landscape pp. 781-805

Cristiano Bellavitis, Christian Fisch and Rod B. McNaughton

Formal and informal entrepreneurship: a cross-country policy perspective pp. 807-826

Elaine Laing, André van Stel and David J. Storey

When does market hostility curtail competitive performance through diminished entrepreneurial efforts? Buffering effects of women entrepreneurs’ family business support pp. 827-844

Dirk Clercq, Eugene Kaciak and Narongsak (Tek) Thongpapanl

How much state ownership do hybrid firms need for better performance? pp. 845-871

Bach Nguyen, Hoa Do and Chau Le

Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms pp. 873-892

Matthias S. Johann, Joern Block and Lena Benz

Capacity constraints as a trigger for high growth pp. 893-923

Alex Coad, Clemens Domnick, Florian Flachenecker, Peter Harasztosi, Mario Lorenzo Janiri, Rozalia Pal and Mercedes Teruel

State Medicaid Expansion and the Self-Employed pp. 925-954

Jun Yeong Lee and John Winters

Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships pp. 955-976

Christopher Boudreaux, George Clarke and Anand Jha

Only the brave: improving self-rationing efficiency among discouraged Swiss SMEs pp. 977-1003

Reto Wernli and Andreas Dietrich

Bankruptcy laws, entrepreneurs’ socio-cognitions, and the pursuit of innovative opportunities pp. 1005-1022

Wenping Ye, Zhongfeng Su and David Ahlstrom

Group conditions for entrepreneurial visions: role confidence, hierarchical congruences, and the imagining of future in entrepreneurial groups pp. 1023-1041

Isabell Stamm and Marie Gutzeit

Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking pp. 1043-1059

Peter-J. Jost

Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality pp. 1061-1079

Christopher Boudreaux, Niklas Elert, Magnus Henrekson and David S. Lucas

Exploring the contribution of micro firms to innovation: does competition matter? pp. 1081-1113

Luca Farè

Crowdfunding and bank financing: substitutes or complements? pp. 1115-1142

Anton Miglo

The role of accelerator programmes on the capital structure of start-ups pp. 1143-1167

Ana Venâncio and João Jorge

Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises? pp. 1169-1195

Michael Berlemann, Vera Jahn and Robert Lehmann

Buddhist entrepreneurs, charitable behaviors, and social entrepreneurship: evidence from China pp. 1197-1217

Zuhui Xu, Zhiyang Liu and Jie Wu

Is there a gender gap in equity-based crowdfunding? pp. 1219-1244

Jörg Prokop and Dandan Wang

Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 1245-1271

Asif Islam and Silvia Muzi

The productivity shock in business services pp. 1273-1299

Alexander Kritikos, Alexander Schiersch and Caroline Stiel

Volume 59, issue 2, 2022

Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review pp. 423-446

Elena Cefis, Cristina Bettinelli, Alex Coad and Orietta Marsili

Correction to: Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review pp. 447-447

Elena Cefis, Cristina Bettinelli, Alex Coad and Orietta Marsili

Does patenting always help new firm survival? Understanding heterogeneity among exit routes pp. 449-475

Masatoshi Kato, Koichiro Onishi and Yuji Honjo

The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit? pp. 477-489

Noni Symeonidou, Dawn R. DeTienne and Francesco Chirico

Recovery and exit of zombie firms in Portugal pp. 491-519

Carlos Carreira, Paulino Teixeira and Ernesto Nieto-Carrillo

Enablers of exit through trade sale: the case of early-stage research-based spin-offs pp. 521-535

Marius Tuft Mathisen, Raj Krishnan Shankar, Øystein Widding, Einar Rasmussen and Alexander McKelvie

Turmoil over the crisis: innovation capabilities and firm exit pp. 537-564

Marco Grazzi, Chiara Piccardo and Cecilia Vergari

Public sector entrepreneurship, politics, and innovation pp. 565-572

Dora Gicheva and Albert Link

Can corporate social responsibility mitigate the liability of newness? Evidence from China pp. 573-592

Yan Zuo, Shenyang Jiang and Jiang Wei

Amundsen versus Scott: are growth paths related to firm performance? pp. 593-610

Alex Coad, Sven-Olov Daunfeldt and Daniel Halvarsson

Whirlwind model of entrepreneurial ecosystem path dependence pp. 611-625

Laurence Cloutier and Karim Messeghem

Does the adoption of emerging technologies improve technical efficiency? Evidence from Korean manufacturing SMEs pp. 627-643

Won-Sik Hwang and Ho-Sung Kim

The growth of entrepreneurial human capital: origins and development of skill variety pp. 645-664

Alexander Krieger, Michael Stuetzer, Martin Obschonka and Katariina Salmela-Aro

Achieving aging well through senior entrepreneurship: a three-country empirical study pp. 665-689

Ying Zhu, Ayse Collins, Zhixing Xu, Deepak Sardana and S. Tamer Cavusgil

Innovation and new business formation: the role of innovative large firms pp. 691-720

Pu Liu and Yingying Shao

Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs pp. 721-741

Eriko Naiki and Yuta Ogane

Correction to: Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs pp. 743-743

Eriko Naiki and Yuta Ogane

A second chance for failed entrepreneurs: a good idea? pp. 745-767

Sandra Gottschalk and Bettina Müller

Correction to: A second chance for failed entrepreneurs: a good idea? pp. 769-771

Sandra Gottschalk and Bettina Müller

Volume 59, issue 1, 2022

Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation pp. 1-9

Lubna Rashid

The organizational architecture of entrepreneurial universities across the stages of entrepreneurship: a conceptual framework pp. 11-27

James A. Cunningham, Erik E. Lehmann and Matthias Menter

Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements pp. 29-45

Pedro Torres and Pedro Godinho

Heterogeneity and state dependence in firms’ access to bank credit pp. 47-78

David Aristei and Gabriele Angori

High growth firms and trade linkages: Imports do matter pp. 79-92

Marcio Cruz, Leila Baghdadi and Hassen Arouri

Homophily and peer influence in early-stage new venture informal investment pp. 93-116

Fei Qin, Tomasz Mickiewicz and Saul Estrin

Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession pp. 117-142

Stjepan Srhoj, Bruno Škrinjarić, Sonja Radas and Janette Walde

Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates pp. 143-161

Evila Piva and Paola Rovelli

Female self-employment: prevalence and performance effects of having a high-income spouse pp. 163-181

Carl Magnus Bjuggren and Magnus Henrekson

Decision-making style in entrepreneurial finance and growth pp. 183-210

Laurence Cohen and Peter Wirtz

Narratives in entrepreneurial ecosystems: drivers of effectuation versus causation pp. 211-242

Sylvia Hubner, Fabian Most, Jochen Wirtz and Christine Auer

The salience of ethnic identity in entrepreneurship: an ethnic strategies of business action framework pp. 243-268

Marlene Orozco

The future of entrepreneurship: the few or the many? pp. 269-278

Donald F. Kuratko and David B. Audretsch

New venture dissolution and the comobility of new venture teams pp. 279-298

Nazanin Eftekhari and Bram Timmermans

Security token offerings pp. 299-325

Thomas Lambert, Daniel Liebau and Peter Roosenboom

Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information pp. 327-360

Pierluigi Murro and Valentina Peruzzi

CEO age, shareholder monitoring, and the organic growth of European firms pp. 361-382

Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Davide Castellani and Fabio Pieri

Which firms drive employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Kenya pp. 383-396

Stephen Esaku

Historical roots of entrepreneurship in different regional contexts—the case of Poland pp. 397-412

Michael Fritsch, Korneliusz Pylak and Michael Wyrwich

Public support of innovative activity in small and large firms in Mexico pp. 413-422

Maribel Guerrero and Albert Link