The university business incubator (UBI) is an innovative system designed to assist entrepreneurs,
particularly entrepreneurs in technology, in the development of new firms. By providing …

This paper argues that a definition of small business is important for both research and
governmental policy. A chronological history of definitions is discussed along with their limitations…

We examine a set of small, venture capital (VC)‐backed manufacturing firms and compare it
to a control sample of nonVC‐backed manufacturing firms going public between 1990 and …

This study examines the relationship between critical success factors of women-owned
business and business performance. To date, there has been little research comparing the …

This paper deals with an economic order quantity (EOQ) inventory model under both
nonlinear stock dependent demand and nonlinear holding cost. This inventory model is …

Small firm debt financing differs from large firm debt financing. Most studies of the determinants
of capital structure examine large, publicly owned and traded firms that rely on the …

In this article we extend the existing IPO literature to the case of micro‐IPOs by analyzing a
sample of Small Corporate Offering Registration (SCOR) documents from the US state of …

This study compares Korean and US small businesses in terms of (1) owner/manager and
firm characteristics and (2) the relative importance placed on determinants of business start-up…

… Osteryoung and New man argue that a small business is defined as having two major
criteria; first, a small business is one that has no public common stock, and second, the owner(s) …

The authors present an improved model for evaluating the lease versus borrow alternative.
The basic advantages of this model are that the cost of leasing is insensitive to changes in …