This paper reports on a comprehensive study of the role of SMEs for job creation and regional economic well-being in … that SMEs were over-represented as job creators across business cycle stages and industries. Relatively little of … systematic differences in SMEs role over the business cycle was detected. However, it was primarily very small, single …

Business growth has become a major theme in the rapidly expanding field of entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship … entrepreneurship, and which are at the same time given only cursory treatment within other lines of research. On the basis of … empirically informed conceptual reasoning, we argue that setting the term ‘entrepreneurship’ equal to ‘start-up of a new …

This journal aims at developing and sharing some ideas on methodological development in entrepreneurship research … literature as regards what "entrepreneurship" is, and what entrepreneurship research should study, it may be useful to first set … entrepreneurship as a scholarly domain it is important that the phenomenon called "entrepreneurship" be defined as unambiguously as …

include: missing arenas for entrepreneurship in the care sectors and for household-related services, taxation of … data, we provide evidence of a low prevalence of nascent entrepreneurs and a small net employment contribution by high …

increasing GNP, rapid employment growth in the private service sector, and very low levels of unemployment in most regions. While …

Understanding the sources of business growth is central to both the fields of entrepreneurship and strategy. This is a …