small business

Using data from the confidential and restricted-access Characteristics of Business Owners Survey, the authors provide some suggestive evidence on the causes of intergenerational links in
business ownership and the related issue of how having a family business background affects small business outcomes.

The authors analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi-dimensional approach. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum efficient size and high numbers of entries.

Using a panel data set of SBA-guaranteed loans the authors assess whether SBA-guaranteed lending has an observable impact on local and regional economic performance.

The paper argues that a thorough-going Buddhist analysis, supplemented by contemporary insights from feminist theory, yields a relational understanding of business firms and markets that can help move debates about ethics and business beyond issues of scale.

The report from the Small Business Association investigates how small firms expand U.S. innovative capacity and addresses whether large or small firms are more innovative. The study also reports on company turnover, technology transfer, inventor movement and acquisitions of small businesses.

The working paper utilizes information collected in the 1993 and 1998 surveys of small business finances to investigate the uses of equity capital by small firms. Findings indicate that while the importance of public issue markets and the role of venture capital investments in promoting growth cannot be denied, the importance of external equity capital in promoting the formation and growth of small business seems to be overstated.

The report from the Small Business Administration (SBA) proposes to modify its small business size standards in terms of the number of employees of a business concern for most industries and SBA programs.

Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been relatively little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania containing detailed information from the startup date through 2001.

This paper uses government data sources to analyze business survival and the success status of closed businesses.

Building on information gathered from the Small Business Economic Indicators report, these profiles provided an overview of the important role small businesses play in each state. They include baseline statistics on each states small business economy-number of firms, small business income, industrial composition, job growth and data on minority- and women-owned businesses.