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Academic Research on Small Businesses Please choose a question and select or press the enter key to reveal/hide the answer. To view both question and answers in this area follow this link. 1. Office of Advocacy Resources Office of Advocacy Resources (www.sba.gov/advo/research ) The Small Business Economy: A Report to the President: www.sba.gov/advo/research/sbe.html Quarterly Indicators: The Economy and Small Business: www.sba.gov/advo/research/sbei.html Small Firm Lending Studies: www.sba.gov/advo/research/lending.html State and Territory Small Business Economic Profiles: www.sba.gov/advo/research/profiles Regulatory Research: www.sba.gov/advo/research/regulation.html Research on Owner Demographics (women, minorities, veterans, etc.): www.sba.gov/advo/research/demographic.html Advocacy Working Paper Series: www.sba.gov/advo/research/wkpapers.html Chronological List of Other Advocacy Research Reports: www.sba.gov/advo/research/chron.html 2. Advocacy Conference Proceedings Advocacy Conference Proceedings(www.sba.gov/advo/conferences.html ) Global Perspectives on Entrepreneurship Policy (2005) Putting It Together: The Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development (2005) Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century (2004) Tax Policy and Small Business: New Firm Formation, Growth, and Survival (2001) The Changing Banking Structure and Its Impact on Small Business (2000) The Invisible Part of the Iceberg: Research Issues in Industrial Organization and Small Business (2000) Are Small Firms Important? Their Role and Impact. Zoltan Acs, ed. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999 (proceedings of a 1997 Advocacy conference). 3. Small Business Journals Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1042-2587 International Small Business Journal: http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=306 Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13691066.asp Journal of Applied Management and Entrepreneurship: http://www.huizenga.nova.edu/jame/section1.html Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures:http://whitman.syr.edu/people/institutes/journal/ Journal of Business Venturing: www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505723/description?navopenmenu=1 Journal of Small Business Management: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0047-2778 Small Business Economics: www.kluweronline.com/issn/0921-898X/contents 4. Select Literature Acs, Zoltan J. and David B. Audretsch. Handbook on Entrepreneurial Research. Boston: Kluwer Pub., 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. 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: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Holtz-Eakin, Douglas and Harvey S. Rosen, eds. Public Policy and the Economics of Entrepreneurship. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2004. Jovanovic, Boyan. “Selection and the Evolution of Industry.” Econometrica. 50(3), 1982. 649-70. Katz, Jerome A., ed. Databases for the Study of Entrepreneurship. New York: JAI/Elsevier Science, 2000. Lucas, Robert. “On the Size Distribution of Business Firms.” Bell Journal of Economics. 9(2), 1978. 508. 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 5. Web-Based Resources Center for Women’s Business Research: www.nfwbo.org Kauffman Entrepreneurial Research:www.kauffman.org Kauffman-RAND Center for Study of Small Business and Regulation: www.rand.org/icj/centers/small_business National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series: www.nber.org/papers National Women’s Business Council: www.nwbc.gov Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, SMEs and Entrepreneurship Dep’t:www.oecd.org Research Papers in Economics: http://econpapers.repec.org Social Science Research Network:www.ssrn.com The World Bank’s Doing Business Project: www.doingbusiness.org 6. Data Sources U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census 1997 Economic Census: www.census.gov/epcd/www/econ97.html 2002 Economic Census (Survey of Business Owners): www.census.gov/econ/census02/ American FactFinder: http://factfinder.census.gov Nonemployer Statistics: www.census.gov/epcd/nonemployer/ Center for Economic Studies (CES) Data and Working Papers www.ces.census.gov. CES Data is available at Research Data Centers for approved research proposals. Statistics of U.S. Businesses (partially funded by Advocacy): www.census.gov/csd/susb/susb.htm County Business Patterns: http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html Survey of Income and Program Participation: www.sipp.census.gov/sipp/sipphome.htm U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics Business Employment Dynamics: www.bls.gov/bdm/home.htm Current Population Survey: http://www.bls.gov/cps/home.htm and http://ferret.bls.census.gov/cgi-bin/ferret Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve Bulletin: www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/default.htm Survey of Small Business Finances: www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss3/nssbftoc.htm Survey of Consumer Finances: www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/oss/oss2/scfindex.html Senior Loan Officer Survey on Bank Lending Practices: www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/SnLoanSurveyInternal Revenue Service Statistics of Income Division: www.irs.gov/taxstats Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: www.kauffman.org National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Economic Trends:www.nfib.com Small Business Polls: www.nfib.com Other Longitudinal Databases Global Entrepreneurship Monitor:www.gemconsortium.org Panel Study on Entrepreneurial Dynamics:projects.isr.umich.edu/psed/index.cfm 7. Literature on The Use of Small Business Data Acs, Zoltan C., Catherine Armington, and Alicia Robb. Measures of Job Flow Dynamics in the U.S. Economy. Office of Advocacy, Research Summary 192, 1999. Armington, Catherine. Development of Business Data: Tracking Firm Counts, Growth, and Turnover by Size of Firms. Office of Advocacy, Research Summary 245, 2004. Bitler, Marianne, Alicia Robb, and John D. Wolken. “Financial Services Used by Small Businesses: Evidence from the 1998 Survey of Small Business Finances.” Federal Reserve Bulletin, 87(4), April 2001: 183-205. Fairlie, Robert. Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. Kauffman Foundation, September 2005. Gartner, William B., et al. Handbook of Entrepreneurial Dynamics: The Process of Business Creation. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004. Hipple, Steven. “Self-Employment in the United States: An Update.” Monthly Labor Review, 127(7), July 2004: 13-23. Knaup, Amy E. “Survival and Longevity in the Business Employment Dynamics Data.” Monthly Labor Review, 128(5), May 2005: 50-56. 8. Research Funding Traditional sources of funding are available, such as the National Science Foundation (www.nsf.gov/sbe/ses/); many colleges and universities will provide money for faculty and student research. Some subscription-based services also provide information on grant opportunities. The Office of Advocacy contracts with external researchers for many of its studies. All research contracts are small business set-asides. Although Advocacy does not contract with colleges and universities, individual professors, students, or teams can submit proposals as consultants with their own firm. Like all federal agencies, Advocacy notifies potential contractors of these opportunities through FedBizOpps (http://www1.eps.gov/spg/index.html). Notifications of Requests for Quotations (RFQ) are posted on Advocacy’s Research Listserv. To subscribe, visit http://web.sba.gov/list. Other organizations fund research on small business and entrepreneurship; the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation (www.kauffman.org) is one example. In addition, many academic conferences promote best paper competitions that reward quality research. Internship opportunities are available for students to help them to gain practical experience while also researching small business issues. 9. To Learn More For more detailed information from the Office of Advocacy, visit www.sba.gov/advo . Sign up at http://web.sba.gov/list for e-mail delivery of news releases, The Small Business Advocate monthly newsletter, small business research findings and statistics, and regulatory communications. Office of Advocacy economic research is located at www.sba.gov/advo/research. The site is searchable by keyword. Questions may be directed to (202) 205-6533 or advocacy@sba.gov. 10. Is a PDF version of the Research Resource available? Yes. 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