Small Business Economics

1992 - 2025

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Volume 55, issue 4, 2020

Gender and bank lending after the global financial crisis: are women entrepreneurs safer bets? pp. 853-880

Marc Cowling, Susan Marlow and Weixi Liu

Gender, formality, and entrepreneurial success pp. 881-900

Lars Ivar Oppedal Berge and Armando Garcia Pires

I will sleep when I am dead? Sleep and self-employment pp. 901-917

Marcus T. Wolfe and Pankaj C. Patel

Capital structure, debt maturity, and financial crisis: empirical evidence from SMEs pp. 919-941

Antonio D’Amato

Small firms and bank financing in bad times pp. 943-953

Giulio Cainelli, Valentina Giannini and Donato Iacobucci

Same bed different dream composition of IPO shares and withdrawal decisions in weak market conditions pp. 955-974

Pengda Fan and Kazuo Yamada

Firm formation and survival in the shale boom pp. 975-996

Mark Partridge, Shawn M. Rohlin and Amanda Weinstein

Microfirms and innovation in the service sector pp. 997-1018

David B. Audretsch, Alexander Kritikos and Alexander Schiersch

Globalization and firm growth: does ownership matter? pp. 1019-1037

Chih-Hai Yang and Meng-Wen Tsou

Determinants of graduates’ entrepreneurial activity pp. 1039-1056

Shiri M. Breznitz and Qiantao Zhang

Entry into self-employment and individuals’ risk-taking propensities pp. 1057-1074

Matthias Brachert, Walter Hyll and Abdolkarim Sadrieh

Analysing the links between cooperative principles, entrepreneurial orientation and performance pp. 1075-1089

Carmen Guzmán, Francisco J. Santos and María de la O. Barroso

Does organizational structure facilitate inbound and outbound open innovation in SMEs? pp. 1091-1112

Simona Gentile-Lüdecke, Rui Torres de Oliveira and Justin Paul

Initial coin offerings (ICOs): market cycles and relationship with bitcoin and ether pp. 1113-1130

Christian Masiak, Joern Block, Tobias Masiak, Matthias Neuenkirch and Katja N. Pielen

Liquidity constraints, spillovers, and entrepreneurship: evidence from a cash transfer program pp. 1131-1158

Rafael Ribas

A model of credit constraint for MSMEs in India pp. 1159-1177

Malcolm Athaide and H. K. Pradhan

Correction to: Digital girl: cyberfeminism and the emancipatory potential of digital entrepreneurship in emerging economies pp. 1179-1179

Maura McAdam, Caren Crowley and Richard T. Harrison

Volume 55, issue 3, 2020

Artificial intelligence and big data in entrepreneurship: a new era has begun pp. 529-539

Martin Obschonka and David B. Audretsch

Catching Gazelles with a Lasso: Big data techniques for the prediction of high-growth firms pp. 541-565

Alex Coad and Stjepan Srhoj

Big data methods, social media, and the psychology of entrepreneurial regions: capturing cross-county personality traits and their impact on entrepreneurship in the USA pp. 567-588

Martin Obschonka, Neil Lee, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Johannes C. Eichstaedt and Tobias Ebert

The promise of social signal processing for research on decision-making in entrepreneurial contexts pp. 589-605

Werner Liebregts, Pourya Darnihamedani, Eric Postma and Martin Atzmueller

Advancing entrepreneurship as a design science: developing additional design principles for effectuation pp. 607-626

Stephen X. Zhang and Elco Burg

Predicting outcomes in crowdfunding campaigns with textual, visual, and linguistic signals pp. 627-649

Jermain C. Kaminski and Christian Hopp

Data science for entrepreneurship research: studying demand dynamics for entrepreneurial skills in the Netherlands pp. 651-672

Jens Prüfer and Patricia Prufer

New(s) data for entrepreneurship research? An innovative approach to use Big Data on media coverage pp. 673-694

Johannes Bloh, Tom Broekel, Burcu Özgun and Rolf Sternberg

SMEs and entrepreneurship in the era of globalization: advances and theoretical approaches pp. 695-703

Francisco Liñán Alcalde, Justin Paul and Alain Fayolle

Pathways of SME internationalization: a bibliometric and systematic review pp. 705-725

Marina Dabic, Jane Maley, Leo Dana, Ivan Novak, Massimiliano M. Pellegrini and Andrea Caputo

Intangible assets and SMEs’ export behavior: a meta-analytical perspective pp. 727-760

Stephanie E. Mansion and Andreas Bausch

And yet, non-equity cooperative entries do improve international performance: uncovering the role of networks’ social capital pp. 761-776

Maria Ripollés and Andreu Blesa

Effectuation and internationalisation: a review and agenda for future research pp. 777-811

Masoud Karami, Ben Wooliscroft and Lisa McNeill

The effects of innovation on the decisions of exporting and/or importing in SMEs: empirical evidence in the case of Spain pp. 813-829

Alfonso Exposito and Juan A. Sanchis-Llopis

Export promotion programmes as export performance catalysts for SMEs: insights from an emerging economy pp. 831-851

Oscar Malca, Jesus Vinces and Francisco J Acedo

Volume 55, issue 2, 2020

Female entrepreneurship in the digital era pp. 305-312

Elisa Ughetto, Mariacristina Rossi, David Audretsch and Erik Lehmann

Entrepreneurial spirits in women and men. The role of financial literacy and digital skills pp. 313-327

Noemi Oggero, Mariacristina Rossi and Elisa Ughetto

Networking: a business for women pp. 329-348

Alessandro Manello, Maurizio Cisi, Francesco Devicienti and Davide Vannoni

Digital girl: cyberfeminism and the emancipatory potential of digital entrepreneurship in emerging economies pp. 349-362

Maura McAdam, Caren Crowley and Richard T. Harrison

Progress or pinkwashing: who benefits from digital women-focused capital funds? pp. 363-387

Barbara Orser, Susan Coleman and Yanhong Li

The role of freelancers in entrepreneurship and small business pp. 389-392

Andrew Burke and Marc Cowling

On the critical role of freelancers in agile economies pp. 393-398

Andrew Burke and Marc Cowling

The relationship between freelance workforce intensity, business performance and job creation pp. 399-413

Andrew Burke and Marc Cowling

Do freelance independent contractors promote entrepreneurship? pp. 415-427

Andrew Burke, Imran Zawwar and Stephanie Hussels

Analyzing the changing education distributions of solo self-employed workers and employer entrepreneurs in Europe pp. 429-445

André Stel and Peter van der Zwan

Explaining entrepreneurial performance of solo self-employed from a motivational perspective pp. 447-460

Nardo Vries, Werner Liebregts and André Stel

Disclosing ‘masked employees’ in Europe: job control, job demands and job outcomes of ‘dependent self-employed workers’ pp. 461-474

Ana Millán, Jose Maria Millan and Leonel Caçador-Rodrigues

Happy Free Willies? Investigating the relationship between freelancing and subjective well-being pp. 475-491

Peter Zwan, Jolanda Hessels and Martijn Burger

The impact of work-related values and work control on the career satisfaction of female freelancers pp. 493-506

Pascale Peters, Rob Blomme, Ward Jager and Beatrice Heijden

Self-employment earnings premiums/penalties and regulations: evidence from developing economies pp. 507-527

T. H. Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad and David Newhouse

Volume 55, issue 1, 2020

Historical roots of regional entrepreneurship: the role of knowledge and creativity pp. 1-22

Alfredo Monte and Luca Pennacchio

Is the corporation tax a barrier to productivity growth? pp. 23-38

Desiderio Romero-Jordán, Ismael Sanz and José Félix Sanz-Sanz

Forecasting success in equity crowdfunding pp. 39-56

Aleksandrina Ralcheva and Peter Roosenboom

The narcissism of crowdfunding entrepreneurs pp. 57-76

Helen Bollaert, Gaël Leboeuf and Armin Schwienbacher

The geography of initial coin offerings pp. 77-102

Winifred Huang, Michele Meoli and Silvio Vismara

Diversification by young, small firms: the role of pre-entry resources and entry mistakes pp. 103-122

Rui Baptista, Murat Karaöz and João Leitão

Determinants of novice, portfolio, and serial entrepreneurship: an occupational choice approach pp. 123-151

Emanuela Carbonara, Hien Thu Tran and Enrico Santarelli

The global technology frontier: productivity growth and the relevance of Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship pp. 153-178

Esteban Lafuente, Zoltan Acs, Mark Sanders and László Szerb

A theoretical model of values and behaviors that shape technology region emergence in developing contexts pp. 179-191

Brett Anitra Gilbert, Yuanyuan Li, Andres Velez-Calle and Marcus Crews

Entrepreneurs embrace competition: evidence from a lab-in-the-field study pp. 193-214

Diemo Urbig, Werner Bönte, Vivien D. Procher and Sandro Lombardo

Unwrapping opportunity confidence: how do different types of feasibility beliefs affect venture emergence? pp. 215-236

Laurent Vilanova and Ivana Vitanova

Does firm growth increase corruption? Evidence from an instrumental variable approach pp. 237-256

Thuy Dieu Nguyen

The impact of entrepreneurship education on university students’ entrepreneurial skills: a family embeddedness perspective pp. 257-282

Davide Hahn, Tommaso Minola, Giulio Bosio and Lucio Cassia

Firm bribery and credit access: evidence from Indian SMEs pp. 283-304

Nirosha Wellalage, Stuart Locke and Helen Samujh