small business

This paper is a primer on corporate performance, corporate governance, and their interrelationships and measurement systems, with particular focus on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Four theories of corporate governance are explained, along with literature findings on the relationship between corporate governance and corporate performance, with reference to both works on large firms and works on SMEs.

In this paper, the authors use a treatment model correcting for potential selection bias to evaluate the performance effect of Business Links assistance on small firms in England.

The report analyzes the cost of regulations on small and large firms. Results indicate that small firms spend twice as much on tax compliance as their larger counterparts.

The study examines the capacity of Irish SMEs to absorb and use knowledge from outside the firm. The focus is to identify areas which require strengthening ensuring that these firms have such ‘absorptive capacity’ and enable them to play a key role in developing the Irish economy.

This paper shows, based on an empirical study of American entrepreneurs, that spin-offs are indeed a step ahead of firms that do not receive support from a third party company.

According to the report, small businesses and microenterprises have an important role to play in low- and moderate-income communities. Often they are the engines of growth in these neighborhoods.

This report shows that creating firm size data on the dynamic U.S. economy has been difficult. Administrative data include delays for the purposes of capturing births, closures, corporate restructuring, mergers, and spin-offs.

This document serves as a summary of other research materials and provides a series of quick, easy-to-recite facts for an external audience to recognize the importance of small business in the economy.

This regular publication pulls together data from a variety of sources to highlight quarterly economic trends relevant to small business.

This regular publication pulls together data from a variety of sources to highlight quarterly economic trends relevant to small business.