Small Business Knowledge Sources

Where can you get good information and research about the role of small business and entrepreneurship in the economy?

The SBA has provided this excellent starting list. The following publications are noteworthy and relevant for individuals to learn more about small business economic research for both the classroom and further analysis.

Selected Advocacy Resources www.sba.gov/advo/stats

The State of Small Business: A Report of the President (1982 - 2000) and The Small Business Economy: A

Report to the President (Forthcoming, 2001 - Present)

Small Business Economic Indicators (1995 - Present)

Small Firm Lending Studies (1994 - Present)

State Small Business Economic Profiles (1996 - Present)

The Third Millennium: Small Business and Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century

Women in Business and Minorities in Business

Advocacy’s Working Paper Series - The Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) also links to our series and others: http://econpapers.hhs.se/paper/sbawpaper/

Selected Advocacy Conference Proceedings

Tax Policy and Small Business: New Firm Formation, Growth and Survival (2001): www.sba.gov/advo/tax_conf.pdf

The Changing Banking Structure and Its Impact on Small Business (2000): www.sba.gov/advo/b_cf00proc.pdf

The Invisible Part of the Iceberg: Research Issues in Industrial Organization and Small Business (2000): www.sba.gov/advo/io_conf.pdf

Acs, Zoltan J., ed. Are Small Firms Important? Their Role and Impact. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999. (Proceedings from a 1997 Advocacy conference of the same name.)

Selected Professional Journals

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

International Small Business Journal

International Journal of Venture Capital

Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship

Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures

Journal of Business Venturing

Journal of Small Business ManagementSmall Business Economics

Selected Publications

Acs, Zoltan J. and David B. Audretsch. The Handbook on Entrepreneurial Research. Boston: Kluwer Publishers, 2003.

Acs, Zoltan J. and David B. Audretsch. “Innovation in Small and Large Firms: An Empirical Analysis.” American Economic Review. 78(4), 1988. 678-90.

Brock, William and David Evans. “Small Business Economics.” Small Business Economics. 1(1), 1989, 7-20.

Frontiers of Entrepreneurial Research. Proceedings from the Babson-Kauffman Entrepreneurial Research Conferences, 1981 to Present. (Online database: www.babson.edu/entrep/fer/

Hart, David M., ed. The Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy: Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the U.S. Knowledge Economy. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas and Harvey S. Rosen, eds. Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2004.

Katz, Jerome A., ed. Databases for the Study of Entrepreneurship. New York: JAI/Elsevier Science, 2000.

Jovanovic, Boyan. “Selection and the Evolution of Industry.” Econometrica. 50(3), 1982. 649-70.

Lucas, Robert E. Jr., “On the Size Distribution of Business Firms.” Bell Journal of Economics. 9(2), 1978. 508-523.

Schumpeter, Joseph A. The Theory of Economic Development, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1934.

Sexton, Donald L. and John D. Kasarda, eds. The State of the Art in Entrepreneurship. Boston: PWS/Kent Publishing, 1992.

Sexton, Donald L. and Raymond W. Smilor, eds. Entrepreneurship 2000. Chicago: Upstart Publishing, 1997.