1. Publisher's note

   Announcement Pages: iii - iii

2. Symposium on Harrison's “Lean and Mean”

   • Zoltan J. Acs

   OriginalPaper Pages: 333 - 335

3. Symposiun on Harrison's “Lean and Mean”: A job generation perspective

   • David J. Storey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 337 - 340

4. Symposium on Harrison's “Lean and Mean”: A technological perspective

   • Steven Klepper

   OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 344

5. Symposium on Harrison's “Lean and Mean”: A finance perspective

   • Joshua Lerner

   OriginalPaper Pages: 345 - 347

6. Symposium on Harrison's “Lean and Mean”: A productivity perspective

   • Donald Siegel

   OriginalPaper Pages: 349 - 351

7. Symposium on Harrison's “Lean and Mean”: A policy perspective

   • John de la Mothe
   • Gilles Paquet
   • Jeffrey Roy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 353 - 356

8. Symposium on Harrison's “Lean and Mean”: What are the questions?

   • Bennett Harrison

   OriginalPaper Pages: 357 - 363

9. Entrepreneurship in the Soviet Union and post-Socialist Russia

   • Alexander I. Ageev
   • Mikhail V. Gratchev
   • Robert D. Hisrich

   OriginalPaper Pages: 365 - 376

10. A comparison of franchise and independent small business survival rates

    • Timothy Bates

    OriginalPaper Pages: 377 - 388

11. Explaining regional variation in business births and deaths: U.S. 1976–88

    • Paul D. Reynolds
    • Brenda Miller
    • Wilbur R. Maki

    OriginalPaper Pages: 389 - 407

12. Announcement

    Announcement Pages: 409 - 410