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Pre-entry experience, knowledge inheritance, and entrepreneurial resource mobilization 入职前经验、知识传承、创业资源调动

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-02-03 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-01003-8

Vilma Chila, Shivaram V. Devarakonda, Xavier Martin

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Matching entrepreneurs with coaches to ignite entrepreneurial learning 将企业家与教练配对，以激发创业学习

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-31 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-01000-x

Matthew R. Marvel, Brian D. Webster, Donald F. Kuratko, David B. Audretsch

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Neo-Schumpeterian growth theory: missing entrepreneurs results in incomplete policy advice 新熊彼特增长理论：企业家缺失导致政策建议不完整

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00994-0

Magnus Henrekson, Dan Johansson

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Hidden champions and knowledge spillovers: innovation-enhancing agglomeration effects and niche technology specificity 隐性冠军与知识溢出：创新增强集聚效应与利基技术专用性

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-27 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-00999-3

Erik E. Lehmann, Julian Schenkenhofer, Silvio Vismara

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Small and vulnerable during crises? Firm size and financing constraint dynamics 在危机期间又小又脆弱？企业规模与融资约束动态

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00996-y

David Heller, Pantelis Karapanagiotis, Øivind A. Nilsen

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The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect 风险投资和大学所有权对分拆企业获得银行贷款的影响：协同效应

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-23 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00995-z

Nicola Del Sarto, Elisa Bocchialini, Lorenzo Gai, Federica Ielasi

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From values to ventures: how value priorities influence entrepreneurial well-being 从价值观到企业：价值优先级如何影响企业家福祉

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00984-2

Evelien P. M. Croonen, Florian Noseleit, Michael Wyrwich

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Balancing act or two roads to travel: Evaluating the trade-offs between digitalization and net zero innovation in SMEs 平衡行动或两条道路：评估中小企业数字化与净零创新之间的权衡

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-00998-4

Effie Kesidou, Anastasia Ri, Stephen Roper

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Truth, knowledge, and entrepreneurship theory: arguments for a rationalist scientific epistemology 真理、知识和创业理论：理性主义科学认识论的论证

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00993-1

Mark D. Packard, Per L. Bylund

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Gender differences in entrepreneurial equity financing—a systematic literature review 创业股权融资中的性别差异——系统文献综述

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Small Business Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-024-00989-x

Kevin Koziol, Maja Schmitz, Suleika Bort

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