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The Economics of Small Firms

A European Challenge

  • Zoltan J. Acs
  • David B. Audretsch
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Part of the Studies in Industrial Organization book series (SIOR, volume 11)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xi
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  2. Small Firms in the 1990s

    1. Small Firms in the 1990s
      Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch
      Pages 1-22

  3. Small-Firm Growth

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 23-23
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    2. Transactional Calculus and Small Business Strategy
      Mark H. Lazerson
      Pages 25-42
    3. Firm Performance and Size
      David J. Storey
      Pages 43-52
    4. The Relationship Between Firm Growth and Labor Demand
      Bruno Contini, Riccardo Revelli
      Pages 53-62
    5. Small Business in German Manufacturing
      Joachim Schwalbach
      Pages 63-76

  4. Issues in Entrepreneurship

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 77-77
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    2. Some Empirical Aspects of Entrepreneurship
      David S. Evans, Linda S. Leighton
      Pages 79-99
    3. Creative Destruction among Industrial Firms in the United States
      Bruce A. Kirchhoff
      Pages 101-118
    4. Investment and Capital Diversity in the Small Enterprise
      William C. Dunkelberg, Arnold C. Cooper
      Pages 119-137

  5. Technology, Strategy, and Flexibility

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 139-139
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    2. Flexibility, Plant Size and Industrial Restructuring
      Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch, Bo Carlsson
      Pages 141-155
    3. Technology Strategy in Small and Medium-Sized Firms
      Mark Dodgson
      Pages 157-170
    4. Small-Scale Industry at a Crossroads: U.S. Machine Tools in Global Perspective
      Bo Carlsson
      Pages 171-195

  6. Small Firms, New Entry and Employment

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 197-197
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    2. The Size of the Small-Firm Sector in Hungary
      Zoltán Román
      Pages 199-206
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 207-227
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About this book

Keywords

Diversity Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurship business performance strategy

Editors and affiliations

  • Zoltan J. Acs
    • 1
  • David B. Audretsch
    • 2
  1. 1.Merrick School of BusinessUniversity of BaltimoreBaltimoreUSA
  2. 2.Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für SozialforschungBerlinGermany

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7854-7
  • Copyright Information Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 1990
  • Publisher Name Springer, Dordrecht
  • eBook Packages Springer Book Archive
  • Print ISBN 978-90-481-4057-2
  • Online ISBN 978-94-015-7854-7
  • Series Print ISSN 0924-4646
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