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Small Business Economics

Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal (SBEJ) publishes original, rigorous theoretical and empirical research addressing all aspects of entrepreneurship and small business economics, with a special emphasis on the economic and societal relevance of research finding...

ISSN: 0921-898X

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

Category: Economics and Econometrics

Indexation: verifiedScopus / SJR verifiedWeb of Science

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9,2 D1 Top 10%

19 of 282 journals in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous)

H-index · SJR 180 · 3,025

Acceptance rate pie_chart

22% Selective

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Publication cost (APC) payments

2.290 € Open Access

Non-OA path 0 €

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COP Index

9,2

D1 Top 10%

SJR Impact

3,025

H-index

180

Docs (year)

193

Docs 3y

518

Total refs

18023

Cites 3y

5500

Citable 3y

512

Cites/Doc 2y

8.75

Ref/Doc

93.38

Immediate OA

2290 €

Embargoed OA

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Non OA / Submission

0 €

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Best articles by citations

Administrative Compensation and Organizational Performance in Texas Nursing Facilities

Being in Someone Else's Shoes: the Role of Gender in Nascent Entrepreneurship

Comparing effectuation to discovery-driven planning, prescriptive entrepreneurship, business planning, lean startup, and design thinking

Configurations of effectuation, causation, and bricolage: implications for firm growth paths

Does practice make micro-entrepreneurs perfect? An investigation of expertise acquisition using effectuation and causation

Equity Agency Costs Amongst Manufacturing SMEs

How shared pre-start-up moments of transition and cognitions contextualize effectual and causal decisions in entrepreneurial teams

Internal vs External Financing of R&D

Market Justification for Policy on Small Enterprise Development

Relating External Support, Business Growth & Creating Strategies for Survival: A Comparative Case Study Analyses of Small Manufacturing Firms (SMFs) and Entrepreneurs

Small firms and bank financing in bad times

Strategic decision-making in SMEs: effectuation, causation, and the absence of strategy

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The measurement of effectuation: highlighting research tensions and opportunities for the future

The rise of art movements: an effectual process model of Picasso's and Braque's give-and-take during the creation of Cubism (1908-1914)

To Invest or Not to Invest in China

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Small Business Economics has a COP Index of 9,2 (D1), ranked 19 of 282 in Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous). SJR: 3,025.

Immediate OA APC is 2290 EUR. Non-OA / submission fee is 0 EUR.

The acceptance rate recorded for Small Business Economics is 22%.

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