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(De)centralized governance and the value of platform-based new ventures: The moderating role of teams and transparency (非集中化管理与平台型新企业的价值：团队和透明度的调节作用
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-31 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00964-6
Pierluigi Martino, Tom Vanacker, Igor Filatotchev, Cristiano Bellavitis
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Small business stories in the formation of enterprise policy: a narrative policy analysis of the UK Bolton Committee 企业政策制定过程中的小企业故事：英国博尔顿委员会的政策叙事分析
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00966-4
Robert Wapshott, Oliver Mallett
{"title":"Small business stories in the formation of enterprise policy: a narrative policy analysis of the UK Bolton Committee","authors":"Robert Wapshott, Oliver Mallett","doi":"10.1007/s11187-024-00966-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00966-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Enterprise policy, which seeks to stimulate start-ups and support small businesses, attracts significant investment from government and shapes the context for entrepreneurs. Researchers have begun to study the processes underlying the formulation of enterprise policy. However, accounts of how competing interests seek to influence enterprise policymaking processes remain rare. Utilising a distinctive approach to narrative entrepreneurship, developed through a narrative policy analysis, we examine archival records of submissions from a range of stakeholders to a UK government inquiry. We develop a narrative entrepreneurship approach that allows us to analyse the stories and broader narratives told by entrepreneurs and others. Our analysis identifies different types of narrative strategy used to develop stories by two competing interest groups: a narrative from small businesses and their representatives and, contesting this, a counternarrative from other stakeholders, including the finance industry, consumer groups and large firms. We analyse how the inquiry engaged with these competing narratives and sought to make them amenable to policymaking through the creation of a simplifying, overarching metanarrative. We demonstrate that, while this metanarrative simplified the uncertain, complex and polarised issue of enterprise policy, it masked and did not resolve the underlying tensions between competing interests.</p>","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142084715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Investment grants and firms’ productivity: how effective is a grant booster shot? 投资补助金与企业生产力：补助金强心针的效果如何？
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00955-7
Fernando Alexandre, Miguel Chaves, Miguel Portela
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Importing knowledge from psychology: how it broadens the scope of entrepreneurship research—and helps it avoid the “multi-tower effect” 从心理学中引进知识：如何拓宽创业研究的范围--并帮助其避免 "多塔效应"
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00959-3
Robert A. Baron
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Colors and Entrepreneurial Activities: An Exploratory Study 颜色与创业活动：一项探索性研究
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00957-5
Nancy Hodges, Michael J. Kane, Albert N. Link
{"title":"Colors and Entrepreneurial Activities: An Exploratory Study","authors":"Nancy Hodges, Michael J. Kane, Albert N. Link","doi":"10.1007/s11187-024-00957-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00957-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Colors may enhance entrepreneurial behavior. It is well known that creativity can lead to entrepreneurial behavior, and it is argued in the psychology literature that colors can influence an individual’s creativity. In this paper, we explore the empirical relationship between colors and entrepreneurial behavior under the literature-based hypothesis that yellows and oranges enhance an individual’s creative emotions. Our findings open the door for future research on the psychology of colors and entrepreneurship.</p>","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141992018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival 风险承受能力对创业利润和企业生存的非线性影响
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00956-6
Melanie Koch, Lukas Menkhoff
{"title":"The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival","authors":"Melanie Koch, Lukas Menkhoff","doi":"10.1007/s11187-024-00956-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00956-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Entrepreneurs tend to be risk tolerant but is higher risk tolerance always better? In a sample of about 2100 small businesses, we find an inverted U-shaped relation between risk tolerance and profitability. This relationship holds in a simple bilateral regression, and even after controlling for a large set of individual and business characteristics. Apparently, one major transmission goes from risk tolerance via investments to profits. This is quite robust as it applies for both past and planned investments. Considering business survival, we show, first, that less profitable businesses leave the market while moderately risk tolerant entrepreneurs survive more often. Second, the high risk-low profit part of the U-shaped relation seems to disappear among businesses being 4 years and older, indicating that such inferior risk-profit combinations disappear over time. These findings are important for the concept of business readiness trainings as the motivation (and ability) to take risks should potentially be accompanied by some warning that taking too much risk can be detrimental to long-term business success.</p>","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"58 1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141980927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Forgive me not? Racial and institutional disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness 不原谅我？工资保护计划贷款豁免中的种族和制度差异
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00952-w
Vladimir Kotomin, Wyatt Frere, Ruby Morr
{"title":"Forgive me not? Racial and institutional disparities in the Paycheck Protection Program loan forgiveness","authors":"Vladimir Kotomin, Wyatt Frere, Ruby Morr","doi":"10.1007/s11187-024-00952-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00952-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Existing research establishes that minority borrowers, particularly Black small business owners, faced significant challenges in accessing funds from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), especially in its early stages. We find that institutional and racial disparities persist during the PPP loan forgiveness stage. Controlling for various loan- and borrower-level characteristics, we demonstrate that relationship lenders—community banks, credit unions, and farm credit institutions—are associated with higher rates of PPP loan forgiveness. In contrast, automated lenders—fintechs and fintech banks—exhibit the lowest forgiveness rates. Black borrowers experience the poorest outcomes, except for loans issued by non-depository fintech and lenders categorized as “other,” where they outperform White borrowers. Loan forgiveness rates improve, and racial disparities diminish, with increased lender concentration in specific economic sectors. Thus, specialized relationship lenders may have the highest odds of achieving the best and most equitable lending outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"215 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141880160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity 创业生态系统要素与创业活动的元分析
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00953-9
Martin Queissner, Lennard Stolz, Matthias Weiss
{"title":"A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity","authors":"Martin Queissner, Lennard Stolz, Matthias Weiss","doi":"10.1007/s11187-024-00953-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00953-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This meta-analysis examines the relationship between entrepreneurial ecosystem (EE) elements and regional entrepreneurial activity (EA). An extensive literature search is performed to identify quantitative studies covering EE elements and EA at the regional level (257 studies) and to extract relevant data (2,241,813 observations). To synthesize the findings, we group the potential antecedent variables based on Stam’s (<i>European Planning Studies</i>, <i>23</i>(9):1759-1769, 2015) EE framework. The results show large differences in the effect sizes and relevance of EE elements. Based on the empirical results, three relevant elements underlying all EEs are identified: demand, talent, and finance. Our results remain robust after using different methods for variable grouping, applying meta-analytic regression, and controlling for country, publication specifics, and grouping errors. Propositions for building an EE theory are derived, and future research opportunities are discussed, as well as policy implications.</p>","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141862413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Gender homophily and local bias in equity crowdfunding 股权众筹中的性别同质性和地方偏见
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00949-5
Dandan Wang, Jörg Prokop
{"title":"Gender homophily and local bias in equity crowdfunding","authors":"Dandan Wang, Jörg Prokop","doi":"10.1007/s11187-024-00949-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00949-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We investigate gender-specific local biases among investors in equity crowdfunding. Based on data from a major German crowdfunding platform, we find that domestic investors favour ventures that are geographically closer to their own place of residence. This bias is particularly evident among female investors, although it is partially offset by gender homophily, whereby female investors favour companies with women in the top management team. Finally, we show that the introduction of the German Small Investor Protection Act may have exacerbated local biases in the German crowdfunding market, particularly with respect to firms with female management. Overall, our results suggest that establishing their companies in close proximity to a large number of potential female crowd investors may help improve female entrepreneurs’ chances of attracting equity crowdfunding investment.</p>","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"181 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141755171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation 工人合作社和传统企业的创业与创新：外部合作的作用
IF 6.4 1区 经济学
Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2024-07-22 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00951-x
Francisco J. Santos, Carmen Guzmán, Lidia Valiente
{"title":"Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation","authors":"Francisco J. Santos, Carmen Guzmán, Lidia Valiente","doi":"10.1007/s11187-024-00951-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00951-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through the comparison of conventional firms (CFs) with worker cooperatives (WCs), which are a type of collective enterprise with significant experience in cooperation, this research aims to analyse the influence of external cooperation on the two most prominent factors for the success of enterprises: entrepreneurship and innovation. To this end, a research model is proposed based on contributions from the stakeholders’ perspective of the resource-based view of the firm and tested with data from a survey conducted on WCs and CFs located in two Spanish regions with a long tradition in the cooperative movement. The results highlight that the influence of external cooperation on innovation performance is more relevant for WCs and demonstrate that these collective firms are not disadvantaged in innovation compared to CFs. Furthermore, the results suggest that WCs have a more remarkable ability to compete and cooperate simultaneously, that is, <i>to coopete</i>, due to their participative nature.</p>","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141737065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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