Small Business Economics

Based on the cases of 117 Chinese academic entrepreneurs, we use fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to analyze the independent and joint effect of regional policy support, organizational support, and individual characteristics on …

Entrepreneurial activity, its emergence, and development are considered important for the well-being of nations, especially for those in transition from one economic system or industrial setting into another. A crucial question is, why countries …

Supplier firms, especially the more resource constraint SMEs, form alliances for product innovation. Supplier firms can try to push in creative inputs while needing to align them with the overall solution of the buyer. Our study zooms in on this …

The number of refugees worldwide has reached record levels for the post–World War II period (Braithwaite et al., 2019 ) and is expected to keep increasing in the twenty-first century (Guo et al., 2020 ). Refugee populations accounted for 26.4 …

We estimate the causal effects of a tax incentive for specific productivity-enhancing equipment introduced in 2014 for Japanese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Using firm-level panel data, we find, first, that the introduction of the …