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The rise of nonemployer businesses in the United States: an analysis by geography
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-01141-z
Tessa Conroy, Austin Landini, Mary McDermott
During the first two decades of the 2000s, the number of nonemployer businesses grew remarkably, far outpacing the growth in the number of employer businesses. We analyze the factors that may be driving the growth of nonemployer businesses per capita at the county level. We pay particular attention to geography, namely the rural and urban contexts and potential spatial spillovers between counties. We find that nonemployer growth is highest in places with large non-White populations as well as low incomes and home values, suggesting that nonemployer business ownership may be a form of necessity entrepreneurship that is more common in low-wealth areas. Yet, nonemployer growth is also higher in places with more small business lending, indicating the important role of capital even for very small businesses. Using a panel Spatial Durbin Model and Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) to assess the importance of spatial spillovers, we find that the main results are largely robust to spatial models, but the GWR model highlights important local insights.
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National environmental regulations and green market participation by SMEs
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-01170-8
Marcelo Gonzalez, Isabel María Bodas Freitas, Steven A. Brieger
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Large banks’ service expansion and the survival of small and micro businesses: from the perspective of liquidity constraints 大银行业务拓展与小微企业生存:基于流动性约束的视角
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01177-9
Zheyu Miao, Yueshu Zhou
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AI, trust, and the market for lemons: rethinking the credibility of entrepreneurship research 人工智能、信任和柠檬市场:重新思考创业研究的可信度
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-02-07 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01180-0
Martin Obschonka, Moren Lévesque
Entrepreneurship research faces a growing challenge: studies using advanced AI methods are trusted less than those that do not. In a survey of 172 entrepreneurship scholars, we document a substantial trust discount—AI-based studies are perceived, as a category, to be significantly less credible than those using conventional statistical methods. To explain this outcome, we adapt Akerlof’s market-for-lemons framework and introduce the concept of “social lemons”: studies devalued due to deep epistemic opacity. This stems from a double-black-box challenge: opaque AI methods are applied to uncertain, elusive entrepreneurial phenomena. Echoing dysfunctional market dynamics in Akerlof’s market-for-lemons framework, this dual opacity can create conditions whereby flawed research goes undetected, while high-quality work is crowded out. We outline a multi-stakeholder roadmap for safeguarding research credibility, offering actionable measures to help transform today’s trust discount into a future trust dividend—positioning AI as an accelerator of insight, rather than a source of doubt.
创业研究面临着越来越大的挑战:使用先进人工智能方法的研究比不使用先进人工智能方法的研究更不受信任。在对172名创业学者的调查中,我们记录了一个实质性的信任折扣——作为一个类别,基于人工智能的研究被认为比使用传统统计方法的研究可信度低得多。为了解释这一结果,我们采用了Akerlof的“柠檬市场”框架,并引入了“社会柠檬”的概念:由于深刻的认知不透明而贬值的研究。这源于一个双黑箱挑战:不透明的人工智能方法被应用于不确定、难以捉摸的创业现象。与阿克洛夫的“柠檬市场”框架中功能失调的市场动态相呼应,这种双重不透明会造成有缺陷的研究无法被发现,而高质量的研究则被挤出市场。我们概述了维护研究可信度的多方利益相关者路线图,提供了可操作的措施,以帮助将今天的信任折扣转变为未来的信任红利——将人工智能定位为洞察力的加速器,而不是怀疑的来源。
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Culture over regulation: institutional dimensions driving sustainable entrepreneurship 文化高于监管:推动可持续创业的制度维度
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01176-w
Carolin Maaßen, Tatiana Lopez, David Urbano
Understanding how sustainable entrepreneurs can effectively drive change is inherently tied to the institutional environment, as incentives, regulations, and social norms can either be supportive or hindering. Moreover, individual-level factors, such as beliefs, values, and perceptions, shape behaviours, especially in the sustainability domain. Using original empirical data and drawing on a mixed-methods approach that includes 205 survey responses, 7 in-depth interviews, and secondary data from Catalonia in Spain, a region known for strong sustainable initiatives and entrepreneurial vibrancy, this study analyses founders’ perceptions of institutional dimensions (normative, cultural-cognitive, and regulative) and their role in shaping sustainable entrepreneurship. Results show that both perceptions on the normative dimension, reflected in a strong sustainability culture, and on the cultural-cognitive dimension, understood as the abilities and knowledge to address sustainability issues, positively influence sustainable entrepreneurship. Results show that both perceptions of the normative dimension, reflected in a strong sustainability culture, and of the cultural-cognitive dimension, understood as the abilities and knowledge to address sustainability issues, positively influence sustainable entrepreneurship. In contrast, perceptions of the regulative dimension, measured through government support, show an unexpected negative effect, with increased government support associated with lower levels of sustainable entrepreneurship. The results underscore the need to move the sustainability debate beyond technological and regulative fixes, instead highlighting the underlying sociocultural imaginaries that drive meaningful, sustainable change. These findings could be instrumental for policymakers in re-politicising economic activity, embedding sustainability knowledge into business education, and realigning regulatory frameworks to better support sustainable entrepreneurship.
了解可持续的企业家如何有效地推动变革与制度环境内在地联系在一起,因为激励、法规和社会规范要么是支持的,要么是阻碍的。此外,个人层面的因素,如信仰、价值观和观念,塑造了行为,特别是在可持续性领域。本研究使用原始经验数据,并采用混合方法(包括205份调查问卷、7份深度访谈和来自西班牙加泰罗尼亚的二手数据,该地区以强大的可持续倡议和创业活力而闻名),分析了创始人对制度维度(规范、文化认知和监管)的看法及其在塑造可持续创业中的作用。结果表明,规范性维度(反映在强大的可持续性文化中)和文化认知维度(被理解为解决可持续性问题的能力和知识)的认知都对可持续创业产生积极影响。结果表明,规范性维度(反映在强大的可持续性文化中)和文化认知维度(被理解为解决可持续性问题的能力和知识)的感知都对可持续创业产生积极影响。相比之下,通过政府支持衡量的监管维度的看法显示出意想不到的负面影响,政府支持的增加与可持续创业水平的降低有关。研究结果强调,需要将可持续性辩论从技术和监管的解决方案中转移出来,而不是强调潜在的社会文化想象,推动有意义的、可持续的变革。这些发现可能有助于政策制定者将经济活动重新政治化,将可持续性知识纳入商业教育,以及重新调整监管框架以更好地支持可持续创业。
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More knowledge, more entrepreneurs? An investigation of the science and cluster policy mix in Germany 更多的知识,更多的企业家?德国科技与产业集群政策组合研究
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01175-x
David B. Audretsch, Erik E. Lehmann, Matthias Menter, Nikolaus Seitz
The relationship between knowledge and entrepreneurship has been extensively studied, with the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship (KSTE) providing a key theoretical framework. However, the assumption that increasing knowledge stocks and flows inevitably leads to higher levels of entrepreneurship remains contested. This study examines how the mix of science and cluster policies in Germany influences entrepreneurial activity by shaping knowledge spillovers. While science policies aim to advance research and knowledge creation, cluster policies primarily enhance knowledge flows by fostering collaboration among firms, universities, and research institutions. Following the rationale of KSTE, we test whether regions exposed to both types of policy exhibit higher levels of innovation and innovative entrepreneurship than control groups, that is, regions treated only by one or by neither policy. Contrary to KSTE predictions, our findings reveal that knowledge spillovers do not automatically result in increased innovative entrepreneurship but instead primarily fuel intrapreneurship. We thus argue that simply increasing knowledge production is insufficient to drive innovation and innovative entrepreneurship; rather, the way in which knowledge is transferred and absorbed plays a crucial role.
知识与企业家精神之间的关系已被广泛研究,企业家精神的知识溢出理论(KSTE)提供了一个关键的理论框架。然而,增加知识储备和流动不可避免地导致更高水平的企业家精神的假设仍然受到质疑。本研究考察了德国科学与集群政策的结合如何通过形成知识溢出影响创业活动。虽然科学政策旨在促进研究和知识创造,但集群政策主要通过促进企业、大学和研究机构之间的合作来促进知识流动。根据KSTE的基本原理,我们测试了受两种政策影响的地区是否比对照组(即只受一种政策或两种政策影响的地区)表现出更高的创新和创新创业水平。与KSTE的预测相反,我们的研究结果表明,知识溢出不会自动导致创新创业的增加,而是主要推动内部创业。因此,我们认为单纯增加知识生产不足以推动创新和创新创业;相反,知识传递和吸收的方式起着至关重要的作用。
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The impacts of public attention to artificial intelligence on innovation 公众对人工智能的关注对创新的影响
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-01168-2
Baoxi Li, Xiyue Yang
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Correction to: Bank financing for SMEs in times of crisis: when “whatever-it-takes” confronts “black swans” 修正:危机时期中小企业的银行融资:当“不惜一切代价”面对“黑天鹅”时
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-01167-3
Ling Wang
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A microfoundational network theory of rural entrepreneurial ecosystems: establishing the link between structure and behaviours 农村创业生态系统的微基础网络理论:建立结构与行为之间的联系
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-29 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-026-01173-z
Stephanie Scott, Farzana Chowdhury, Efstathios Papanikolaou, Dacosta Omari
This paper examines the microfoundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems in rural settings through a network-theory lens. It has long been acknowledged that ecosystems promote knowledge spillovers and subsequent economic vitality, which often serves as an implicit basis for the formation of much industrial policy worldwide. Nevertheless, research into the relationship between ecosystem structures and actors has predominantly focused on densely populated centres. Furthermore, authors have only tangentially implied links between network structures and the behavioural features of ecosystems, such as the linking of overall cohesion, network density, information processing activities, cognitive attitudes, and perceptions. This has left a gap in our understanding of how individuals might navigate the inherent complexities of ecosystems and address the hurdles to obtaining resources. This is despite widely held assumptions that centralised (urban) versus peripheral (rural) actors have access to and benefit from these systems in different ways. This exploratory study contributes to this theoretical debate by merging microfoundational and network theory of innovation theoretical lenses and provides an in-depth view of the ways (periphery) rural entrepreneurs in the Northeast region of the UK perceive and engage with local ecosystem support mechanisms for innovation. It highlights numerous conceptual variables that influence knowledge accumulation for these firms and suggests further analytical approaches to understand sub-regional-level behavioural and subculture variations. Plain English Summary This study aims to gain a deeper understanding of how rural entrepreneurs navigate networks and engage with their regional ecosystem to acquire resources. While numerous authors have suggested ‘networks’ as a vital component of ecosystem functionality and performance in general, questions remain about the boundary conditions, factors leading to cohesion, and the behavioural aspects that influence the nature of networked interactions. Furthermore, there remain very few studies that focus their examination of the network variable on the rural entrepreneurial context, which renders our understanding of regional ‘network’ systems and actor behaviours inherently incomplete. By deploying microfoundational and network-theory lenses, this exploratory study aimed to gather evidence on interaction density and behavioural aspects of rural entrepreneurs within a regional ecosystem, with a specific focus on knowledge sharing and acquisition, as well as collaboration behaviours. While previous work suggests that an absence of entrepreneurial ecosystem cohesion leads to missed opportunities for firms to access critical knowledge bases and resources across various local sectors, our study extends this notion by suggesting that this geographic proximity issue does not only limit the opportunity for access to ecosystem activity but also creates heterogeneous effects on how knowledge
本文通过网络理论的视角考察了农村创业生态系统的微观基础。人们早就认识到,生态系统促进知识溢出和随后的经济活力,这往往是世界范围内许多产业政策形成的隐含基础。然而,对生态系统结构和行动者之间关系的研究主要集中在人口稠密的中心。此外,作者只是间接地暗示了网络结构与生态系统行为特征之间的联系,例如整体凝聚力、网络密度、信息处理活动、认知态度和感知之间的联系。这给我们对个体如何驾驭生态系统固有的复杂性和解决获取资源的障碍的理解留下了空白。尽管人们普遍认为,集中(城市)与外围(农村)行为者以不同的方式进入这些系统并从中受益。本探索性研究将创新的微观基础理论和网络理论结合起来,为这一理论争论做出了贡献,并对英国东北地区(外围)农村企业家感知和参与当地创新生态系统支持机制的方式提供了深入的视角。它强调了影响这些公司知识积累的许多概念变量,并提出了进一步的分析方法,以了解次区域一级的行为和亚文化差异。本研究旨在更深入地了解农村企业家如何驾驭网络,并参与其区域生态系统以获取资源。虽然许多作者认为“网络”是生态系统功能和性能的重要组成部分,但关于边界条件、导致凝聚力的因素以及影响网络相互作用性质的行为方面的问题仍然存在。此外,很少有研究将网络变量的考察重点放在农村创业背景上,这使得我们对区域“网络”系统和行动者行为的理解本质上是不完整的。通过运用微观基础理论和网络理论,本探索性研究旨在收集区域生态系统中农村企业家互动密度和行为方面的证据,特别关注知识共享和获取,以及合作行为。虽然之前的研究表明,企业生态系统凝聚力的缺乏导致企业错过了在各个地方部门获取关键知识基础和资源的机会,但我们的研究扩展了这一概念,表明这种地理邻近问题不仅限制了获得生态系统活动的机会,而且还对知识获取、认知感知、信息处理风格在更广泛的网络结构中体现在个人身上。我们的研究结果表明,生态系统亚文化不仅由部门层面或人口变量决定,还由微观基础层面的许多网络行为和社会因素决定。我们的研究表明,政策制定者和生态系统推动者不仅应该关注宏观动态,还应该优先考虑生态系统背后的微观因素,因为它们对于实现稳健的创业环境和富有成效的创业精神同样至关重要。
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How do mission-driven ventures emerge? an investigation of startup activities and the achievement of regular sales among early-stage everyday entrepreneurs 使命驱动型企业是如何出现的?对早期日常企业家的创业活动和定期销售业绩的调查
IF 6.4 1区 经济学 Q1 BUSINESS Pub Date : 2026-01-26 DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-01157-5
Heiko Bergmann, Michael Rychener
Mission-driven entrepreneurs can only create an impact if they are able to advance their venture beyond the gestation phase to an operating firm with regular sales. We focus on what entrepreneurs do in the process of setting up business and draw on social identity theory to acknowledge differences between venturing efforts. Specifically, we investigate in what way the strength of founders’ missionary identity affects the relationship between two types of activities in the startup process (discovery-related, exploitation-related) and firm emergence. We test our hypotheses on a longitudinal sample of 135 nascent entrepreneurs, encompassing all kinds of startup attempts. Our results suggest that discovery-related startup activities aimed at identifying, evaluating, and developing a business idea are critical for mission-driven entrepreneurs while exploitation-related activities are also important and may require greater effort. We find indications that founders with a strong missionary identity are likely to exhibit commitment escalating behavior.
使命感驱动的企业家只有能够将他们的企业从孕育阶段推进到定期销售的运营公司,才能产生影响。我们关注企业家在创业过程中所做的事情,并利用社会认同理论来承认创业努力之间的差异。具体而言,我们研究了创始人传教士身份的强度如何影响创业过程中两种类型的活动(发现相关的、开发相关的)与公司涌现之间的关系。我们对135位初生企业家的纵向样本进行了假设检验,其中包括各种各样的创业尝试。我们的研究结果表明,旨在识别、评估和发展商业理念的与发现相关的创业活动对使命驱动型企业家至关重要,而与开发相关的活动也很重要,可能需要更大的努力。我们发现有迹象表明,具有强烈传教士身份的创始人可能会表现出承诺升级行为。
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