Journal of Small Business Management

2001 - 2025

Current editor(s): Eric Liguori

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Volume 60, issue 6, 2022

Unpacking the emergence of born global founders: A careers perspective pp. 1247-1287

Robert J. Pidduck, Margaret A. Shaffer, Yejun Zhang and Daniel R. Clark

The digitalization of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs): An institutional theory perspective pp. 1288-1313

Abu Amar Fauzi and Margaret L. Sheng

Predicting startup survival using first years financial statements pp. 1314-1350

Yolanda Fuertes-Callén, Beatriz Cuellar-Fernández and Carlos Serrano-Cinca

Expectations of access to debt finance for SMEs in times of uncertainty pp. 1351-1378

Raffaella Calabrese, Marta Degl’Innocenti and Si Zhou

SME managers’ causal beliefs on HRM as success factor of the firm pp. 1379-1403

Riitta Viitala, Jukka Vesalainen and Timo-Pekka Uotila

How do institutional innovation systems affect open innovation? pp. 1404-1448

Rui Torres de Oliveira, Martie-Louise Verreynne, Sandra Figueira, Marta Indulska and John Steen

Labor productivity response of the micro-and-small-firm sector to business entries and exits pp. 1449-1483

Félix Modrego and William Foster

Influence of government supports on small and medium enterprises development: Case study of Swat Valley pp. 1484-1515

Inayat Khan, Jia Ming, Murad Ali and Zhe Zhang

Moderation in all things: Industry-university-research alliance portfolio configuration and SMEs’ innovation performance in China pp. 1516-1544

Yuying Wang, Changhong Yuan, Shuman Zhang and Ruiqi Wang

Volume 60, issue 5, 2022

Lessons on small business resilience pp. 1029-1040

Peter Gianiodis, Soo-Hoon Lee, Hao Zhao, Maw-Der Foo and David Audretsch

Psychological resilience of entrepreneurs: A review and agenda for future research pp. 1041-1079

Silja Hartmann, Julia Backmann, Alexander Newman, Kyle M. Brykman and Robert J. Pidduck

Social innovation in Saudi Arabia: The role of entrepreneurs’ spirituality, ego resilience and alertness pp. 1080-1121

Liliana Pérez-Nordtvedt and Mahmoud Ibrahim Fallatah

Does ambidexterity consistency benefit small and medium-sized enterprises’ resilience? pp. 1122-1165

María Iborra, Vicente Safón and Consuelo Dolz

Resilience building among small businesses in low-income neighborhoods pp. 1166-1201

Renata Peregrino de Brito, Anna-Katharina Lenz and Michelle Gonçalves Marques Pacheco

Understanding micro-level resilience enactment of everyday entrepreneurs under threat pp. 1202-1245

J. Brock Smith, Claudia G. Smith, Jan Kietzmann and Sarah T. Lord Ferguson

Volume 60, issue 4, 2022

Examining entrepreneurial experience in relation to pre-launch and post-launch learning activities affecting venture performance pp. 759-785

Matthew R. Marvel, Marcus T. Wolfe, Donald F. Kuratko and Greg Fisher

Failure learning orientation, entrepreneurial orientation, and financial performance among U.S. biotechnology firms pp. 786-804

Grant Alexander Wilson and Jason Perepelkin

Entrepreneurial leadership of CEOs and employees’ innovative behavior in high-technology new ventures pp. 805-827

Afsaneh Bagheri, Alexander Newman and Nathan Eva

How novice and experienced entrepreneurs name new ventures pp. 828-858

Yuval Engel, Ruben van Werven and Annelice Keizer

Perceived success of hybrid microorganizations in a contested category pp. 859-891

Marta Bicho, Ralitza Nikolaeva, Fernando A. F. Ferreira and Carmen Lages

Opposite effects of R&D cooperation on financial and technological performance in SMEs pp. 892-925

Joowoong Park, Jihyun Kim, Hyungsoo Woo and Jae-Suk Yang

Financial reporting in family firms: a socioemotional wealth approach toward information quality pp. 926-960

Andrea Calabrò, Mara Cameran, Domenico Campa and Angela Pettinicchio

The use of cluster analysis in entrepreneurship research: Review of past research and future directions pp. 961-1000

Michael Crum, Thomas Nelson, Johan de Borst and Paul Byrnes

Does Industry 4.0 really matter for SME innovation? pp. 1001-1028

Francisco M. Somohano-Rodríguez, Antonia Madrid-Guijarro and José Manuel López-Fernández

Volume 60, issue 3, 2022

When the going gets tough: Private equity firms’ role as agents and the resolution of financial distress in buyouts pp. 513-540

Miguel Meuleman, Nick Wilson, Mike Wright and Jeroen Neckebrouck

What explains managers’ escalating behaviors in a failing NPD project? The impact of managerial perceptions of opportunities and threats in a stage-gate process pp. 541-579

Miles M. Yang, Wansi Chen and Yue Wang

From hobby to business: Exploring environmental antecedents of entrepreneurial alertness using fsQCA pp. 580-615

Vita Kadile and Alessandro Biraglia

Founder-CEOs: Succession planning for the success, growth, and legacy of family firms pp. 616-633

John F. LeCounte

The effects of export and R&D strategies on firms’ markups in downturns: The Spanish case pp. 634-667

Juan A. Mañez, Maria Engracia Rochina Barrachina and Juan A. Sanchis

Accessibility to external finance and entrepreneurship: A cross-country analysis from the informal institutional perspective pp. 668-703

Reza H. Chowdhury and Min Maung

Performance, working capital management, and the liability of smallness: A question of opportunity costs? pp. 704-733

Vivien Lefebvre

Class waivers to the non-manufacturer rule: Effects on small business utilization in public procurement pp. 734-757

William A. Muir, Michael J. Gravier and Timothy G. Hawkins

Volume 60, issue 2, 2022

Multibrand, multisystem and multirole franchising: A qualitative exploration and framework development in Brazil pp. 253-288

Marko Grünhagen, Manuel González-Díaz, Dildar Hussain and Haroldo Monteiro da Silva Filho

Financial literacy and entrepreneurial risk aversion pp. 289-308

Jan Riepe, Michelle Rudeloff and Theresa Veer

Do tax policies drive innovation by SMEs in China? pp. 309-346

Runhua Wang and Jay P. Kesan

Individual ambidexterity in SMEs: Towards a typology aligning the concept, antecedents and outcomes pp. 347-378

Ting Mu, Allard Van Riel and Roel Schouteten

Dealing with the tensions between innovation and internationalization in SMEs: A dynamic capability view pp. 379-419

Daniele Battaglia and Paolo Neirotti

The diamond model: A French luxury cluster model embedded in regional heritage pp. 420-446

Martine Hlady-Rispal and Bertrand Blancheton

Role of government regulatory pressures over small wineries: A Niagara Peninsula case study of compliance effects in wine bottling pp. 447-479

Stephan Paldino and Hemantha S. B. Herath

SME growth speed: The relationship with board capital pp. 480-512

Carmen Barroso-Castro, Marta Domínguez-CC and M. Ángeles Rodríguez-Serrano

Volume 60, issue 1, 2022

The levels of base pay and incentive pay used by small firms to compensate professional employees with general and specific human capital pp. 1-31

Sanjib Chowdhury and Eric Schulz

An investigation of performance of nascent manufacturing firms pp. 32-62

Ying Zhang, Jeremy B. Zwiegelaar and Vikas Kumar

Self-employment, financial knowledge, and retirement planning pp. 63-92

Anoosheh Rostamkalaei, Miwako Nitani and Allan Riding

Entrepreneurial orientation, online credibility, and online performance: Evidence from SMEs in a B2B electronic market in China pp. 93-118

Kai Li, Xiaowen Wang and Timon C. Du

Zombies: Who are they and how do firms become zombies? pp. 119-145

Ivana Blažková and Ondřej Dvouletý

An effectual approach to innovation for new ventures: The role of entrepreneur’s prior start-up experience pp. 146-177

Ioanna Deligianni, Panagiota Sapouna, Irini Voudouris and Spyros Lioukas

Hybrid succession teams: Understanding their formation and conditions for success pp. 178-218

Catherine Thevenard-Puthod

What can education bring to entrepreneurship? Formal versus non-formal education pp. 219-252

Stojan Debarliev, Aleksandra Janeska-Iliev, Osvaldas Stripeikis and Blaž Zupan

Volume 59, issue S1, 2021

Gender and entrepreneurship: Research frameworks, barriers and opportunities for women entrepreneurship worldwide pp. S1-S15

Joyce A. Strawser, Diana M. Hechavarría and Katia Passerini

Bank loans access for women business-owners in Bangladesh: Obstacles and dependence on husbands pp. S16-S41

Jasmine Jaim

Women entrepreneurship in developing economies: A gender-based growth model pp. S42-S72

Oyedele Martins Ogundana, Amon Simba, Leo Dana and Eric Liguori

Resource combination activities and new venture growth: Exploring the role of effectuation, causation, and entrepreneurs’ gender pp. S73-S101

Te Yang, Karen D. Hughes and Wenhong Zhao

When owner, family, and community roles intertwine: Examining entrepreneurs’ persistence decisions and the gender effect pp. S102-S133

Fei Zhu, Stewart Thornhill and Dan K. Hsu

Gender role congruity and crowdfunding success pp. S134-S152

Birton J. Cowden, Steven A. Creek and Joshua D. Maurer

Gender and quality signals: How does gender influence the effectiveness of signals in crowdfunding? pp. S153-S192

Yin-Chi Liao

Gender and study discipline-specific differences in the opinion about entrepreneurial aspects: An “ICSB academy” investigation pp. S193-S214

Walter Ruda, Pierre G. Keller, Ayman El Tarabishy and Rubén Ascúa

The Journal of Small Business Management: A bibliometric overview of 1996–2019 pp. S215-S236

Leo Dana, Satish Kumar, Nitesh Pandey and Riya Sureka

Volume 59, issue 6, 2021

Transitional entrepreneurship: Elevating research into marginalized entrepreneurs pp. 1081-1096

Robert J. Pidduck and Daniel R. Clark

“We Know Their House, Family, and Workplace”: Trust in entrepreneurs’ trade credit relationships in weak institutions pp. 1097-1126

Isaac Oduro Amoako, Cynthia Akwei and Isaac Damoah

Profitable entrepreneurship or marginal self-employment? The bimodality of Latina self-employment in the United States pp. 1127-1151

Monica Fisher and Paul Lewin

Family and identity: Intersectionality in the lived experiences of second-generation entrepreneurs of Chinese origin in the Netherlands pp. 1152-1179

Yidong Tao, Caroline Essers and Roos Pijpers

How do role conflict intensity and coping strategies affect the success of women entrepreneurs in Africa? Evidence from Ethiopia pp. 1180-1210

Mulu Berhanu Hundera, Geert Duysters, Wim Naudé and Josette Dijkhuizen

Nascent entrepreneurship and race: Evidence from the GATE experiment pp. 1211-1249

Marios Michaelides

Navigating belonging as a Muslim Moroccan female entrepreneur pp. 1250-1278

Caroline Essers, Edwina Pio, Karen Verduijn and Najlae Bensliman

Health insurance and self-employment transitions in Vietnam pp. 1279-1300

Nga Leopold, Wim Groot, Sonila M. Tomini and Florian Tomini

Volume 59, issue 5, 2021

In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges pp. 887-912

Martine Hlady-Rispal, Alain Fayolle and William B. Gartner

About the lives and times of extraordinary entrepreneurs: The methodological contribution of autobiographies to the life course theory of entrepreneurship pp. 913-945

Willem Hulsink and Andreas Rauch

Performing and unperforming entrepreneurial success: Confessions of a female role model pp. 946-975

Sarah Marks

Viewing entrepreneurship “in motion”: Exploring current uses and future possibilities of video-based entrepreneurship research pp. 976-1011

Jarrod Ormiston and Neil A. Thompson

Causal cognitive mapping in the entrepreneurial cognition field: A comparison of two alternative methods pp. 1012-1049

Nabil Khelil

“Yes and..., but wait..., heck no!”: A socially situated cognitive approach towards understanding how startup entrepreneurs process critical feedback pp. 1050-1080

Gabi A. Kaffka, Raja Singaram, Jeroen Kraaijenbrink and Aard J. Groen

Volume 59, issue 4, 2021

Building entrepreneurship research for impact: Scope, phenomenon, and translation pp. 535-543

Joshua Bendickson

Are work stressors and emotional exhaustion driving exit intentions among business owners? pp. 544-574

Shruti R. Sardeshmukh, Michael Goldsby and Ronda M. Smith

Theorizing piratical innovation: Regulatory illegitimacy and firm growth pp. 575-600

Daniel Nunan and MariaLaura Di Domenico

The moderating effect of ERP system complexity on the growth–profitability relationship in young SMEs pp. 601-626

Jakob Schlichter, Kim Klyver and Anders Haug

The mediating role of innovativeness and the moderating effects of strategic choice on SME performance pp. 627-647

Jongkun Jun, Thaemin Lee and Cheol Park

Institutional knowledge in Latin American SMEs pp. 648-674

César Pino, Christian Felzensztein and Sylvie Chetty

Family involvement, external auditing, and the cost of debt: Evidence from U.S. small firms pp. 675-699

Jialong Li, Zhenyu Wu and Lei Zhang

Particularistic and system trust in family businesses: The role of family influence pp. 700-734

Yong Wang and Henry Xiang Shi

Determinants of the formalization of human resource management practices: An empirical study in SMEs in eastern and western China pp. 735-755

Shaoheng Li and Christopher J. Rees

Critical methodological considerations for entrepreneurial cognition research pp. 756-793

V. K. Narayanan, Lee J. Zane and Eric Liguori

Entrepreneurial passion and a firm’s innovation strategies pp. 794-818

Ngoc Luu and Huy Nguyen

The influence of family ownership on acquisition activity: The moderating role of acquisition experience pp. 819-851

J. Diéguez-Soto, P. López-Delgado and T. Mariño-Garrido

Does using latest technologies impact new venture innovation? A contingency-based view of institutional environments pp. 852-886

Kholoud Mohsen, Saadat Saeed, Ali Raza, Suha Omar and Moreno Muffatto

Volume 59, issue 3, 2021

Editorial: Contemporary Perspectives on Social and Humane Entrepreneurship pp. 371-372

Roberto Parente and Ki-Chan Kim

Understanding how and when personal values foster entrepreneurial behavior: A humane perspective pp. 373-396

Susana C. Santos, Xaver Neumeyer, António Caetano and Francisco Liñán Alcalde

Humane Entrepreneurial Framework: A model for effective corporate entrepreneurship pp. 397-416

Ki-Chan Kim, Jeffrey S. Hornsby, John Laurence Enriquez, Zong-Tae Bae and Ayman El Tarabishy

The influence of religion on the humane orientation of entrepreneurs pp. 417-442

Indu Khurana, Amarpreet Singh Ghura and Dev K. Dutta

Conditioned to care: Gender differences in entrepreneurs’ socially responsible behaviors pp. 443-476

Whitney Peake and Kimberly Eddleston

What motivates social entrepreneurs? A meta-analysis on predictors of the intention to found a social enterprise pp. 477-508

Philipp Kruse, Dominika Wach and Jürgen Wegge

Humane entrepreneurship: Some steps in the development of a measurement scale pp. 509-533

Roberto Parente, Ayman El Tarabishy, Antonio Botti, Massimiliano Vesci and Rosangela Feola

Volume 59, issue 2, 2021

Special issue on small business financing: New actors, new opportunities, new challenges pp. 219-222

Giancarlo Giudici, Aurélie Sannajust and Howard E. Van Auken

Gazelles, ponies, and the impact of business angels’ characteristics on firm growth pp. 223-248

Annalisa Croce, Elisa Ughetto, Stefano Bonini and Vincenzo Capizzi

Improving the performance of governmental venture capital firms: Reforms at Shenzhen Capital Group pp. 249-279

Yuejia Zhang

Credit risk in the microfinance industry: The role of gender affinity pp. 280-311

Antonio Blanco-Oliver, Nuria Reguera-Alvarado and Gianluca Veronesi

Is “accredited crowdfunding” a lemons market? Evidence from 506(c) filings pp. 312-336

Eric Fricke, Scott Fung and M. Sinan Goktan

Equity crowdfunding: Forecasting market development, platform evolution, and regulation pp. 337-369

Victor Tiberius and Raoul Hauptmeijer

Volume 59, issue 1, 2021

Publishing entrepreneurship research: Strategies for success distilled from a review of over 3,500 submissions pp. 1-12

Eric W. Liguori, Ayman El Tarabishy and Katia Passerini

Networking-bonding actions, quality of ties, and channel member collaboration: Evidence from U.K.-based small firms pp. 13-46

Gordon Liu, Wai Wai Ko, Isaac Ngugi and Sachiko Takeda

Strategic antecedents of innovation: Variance between small and large firms pp. 47-72

Phillip E. Davis and Joshua S. Bendickson

Learning behaviors across levels in new ventures and innovation outcomes pp. 73-106

G. Page West and Robert M. Gemmell

Export intention in developing countries: A configuration approach to managerial success factors pp. 107-135

Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Paul Jones and Robert Newbery

Getting your hopes up but not seeing them through? Experiences as determinants of income expectations and persistence during the venturing process pp. 136-161

Matthias A. Tietz, José Lejarraga and Maud Pindard-Lejarraga

Dynamic capabilities and SME performance: The moderating effect of market orientation pp. 162-195

Remedios Hernández-Linares, Franz Kellermanns and María Concepción López-Fernández

Who wants to be a social entrepreneur? The role of gender and sustainability orientation pp. 196-218

Petra Dickel and Gordon Eckardt