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In recent years, one observes a renaissance of small business research efforts. The stimuli came from different directions. One strand of more policy oriented research concentrated on the impact of small businesses on the creation of new employment opportunities.1 Another host of studies paid attention to the relationship of innovation productivity of small versus large business.2 And industrial economics research examined the role of small businesses as actual and potential challengers of larger competitors in a given market.3 Whatever motive guided this research, it was emphasized that the cumulated knowledge about large business behavior is by far greater than about their small business counterparts.
I would like to express my gratitude to Stefan Csutor and Sabine Hetebrüg for their assistance in collecting the data. I am also grateful to Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch, Riccardo Revelli, and the participants of the Small Business Economics Conference, November 17–18, 1988 in Berlin for their very valuable comments.
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I would like to express my gratitude to Stefan Csutor and Sabine Hetebrüg for their assistance in collecting the data. I am also grateful to Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch, Riccardo Revelli, and the participants of the Small Business Economics Conference, November 17-18, 1988 in Berlin for their very valuable comments.
See Storey and Johnson (1987).
See Acs and Audretsch (1988).
See Baumol, Panzar, and Willig (1982) and Geroski and Schwalbach (1985).
For a survey see Fritsch and Hull (1987).
See also Albach and Hunsdiek (1985).
See ljiri and Simon (1977) and Scherer (1980).
See Jovanovic (1982) and Evans (1987).
See Theil (1967).
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Schwalbach, J. (1990). Small Business in German Manufacturing. In: Acs, Z.J., Audretsch, D.B. (eds) The Economics of Small Firms. Studies in Industrial Organization, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7854-7_5
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