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CONTENTS TO VOLUME 6 Vol.6 No.1, February 1994 Publisher’s Note DAVID G. BLANCHFLOWER and BRUCE D. MEYER / A Longitudinal Analysis of the Young Self- Employed in Australia and the United States JOACHIM SCHWALBACH / Small Business Dynamics in Europe JOSE MATA / Firm Growth During Infancy OLIVER PFIRRMANN / The Geography of Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Firms in West Germany MORTEN HUSE / Board-Management Relations in Small Firms: The Paradox of Simultaneous Independence and Interdependence Book Reviews Paul Geroski, Richard J. Gilbert and Alexis Jacquemin, Barriers to Entry and Strategic Competi- tion (ROBERT E. McAULIFFE) D. R. Stokes, Small Business Management: An Active-Learning Approach (PAUL D. REYNOLDS) Instructions for authors Vol. 6, No.2, April 1994 SPECIAL ISSUE ON BIRTH AND START-UP OF NEW FIRMS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE Guest Editors: G. Mussati, A. Fumagalli and M. Vivarelli G. MUSSATI, A. FUMAGALLI and M. VIVARELLI / Introduction ALESSANDRO FOTI and MARCO VIVARELLI / An Econometric Test of the Self-Employment Model: The Case of Italy ENRICO SANTARELLI and ALESSANDRO STERLACCHINI / New Firm Formation in Italian Industry: 1985-89 MARTIN CARREE and ROY THURIK / The Dynamics of Entry, Exit and Profitability: An Error Correction Approach for the Retail Industry R. J. BARKHAM / Entrepreneurial Characteristics and the Size of the New Firm: A Model and an Econometric Test ALESSANDRO ARRIGHETTI/ Entry, Growth and Survival of Manufacturing Firms D. J. STOREY / New Firm Growth and Bank Financing Small Business Economics 6: 485—487, 1994. 486 Contents to Volume 6 ALBERTO BRAMANTI and RICCARDO GIRARDI / New Firm Location: An Equilibrium Model and its Disequilibrium Dynamics Vol. 6, No.3, June 1994 LAURA D’ANDREA TYSON, TEA PETRIN, and HALSEY ROGERS / Promoting Entrepreneurship in Eastern Europe BOYAN JOVANOVIC / Firm Formation with Heterogeneous Management and Labor Skills BO CARLSSON and EROL TAYMAZ/ Flexible Technology and Industrial Structure in the U.S. JOACHIM WAGNER /S mall Firm Entry in Manufacturing Industries: Lower Saxony, 1979-1989 KEVIN KEASEY, HELEN SHORT, and ROBERT WATSON / Directors’ Ownership and the Perfor- mance of Small and Medium Sized Firms in the U.K. AMITA SHAH /I nter-Firm Scalar Linkages in India: A Class within the Small Scale Industry Book Reviews David L. McKee and Clem Tisdell, Developmental Issues in Small Island Economies (HANS- PETER BRUNNER) Paula Stephan and Sharon Levin, Striking the Mother Lode in Science: The Importance of Age, Place, and Time (MARY ANN P. FELDMAN) Announcements Vol. 6, No.4, August 1994 KEVIN KEASEY and ROBERT WATSON / The 1986 U.K. Insolvency and Company Directors’ Disqualification Acts: An Evaluation of Their Impacts upon Small Firm Financing Decisions MASSIMO FLORIO / Fair Trades by Trade Fairs: Information Providing Institutions under Monopolis- tic Competition PETER JOHNSON and SIMON PARKER / The Interrelationships between Births and Deaths ERNIE GOSS and GEORGE S. VOZIKIS / High Tech Manufacturing: Firm Size, Industry and Population Density GEOFFREY B. ROBSON and COLIN C. GALLAGHER / Change in the Size Distribution of UK Firms PETER RISSEEUW and ENNO MASUREL / The Role of Planning in Small Firms: Empirical Evidence from a Service Industry Book Reviews Courtney Price, Health Care Innovation and Venture Trends (SANDRA HONIG-HAFTEL) Donald Chisholm, Coordination without Hierarchy: Informal Structures in Multiorganizational Systems (MARK K. TOMASS) Contents to Volume 6 Vol. 6, No.5, October 1994 BART NOOTEBOOM / Innovation and Diffusion in Small Firms: Theory and Evidence KEVIN KEASEY and ROBERT WATSON / The Bank Financing of Small Firms in UK: Issues and Evidence MARYANN P. FELDMAN / Knowledge Complementarity and Innovation YAN-LEUNG CHEUNG, YIU-MING LEUNG, and KWOK-FAI WONG / Small Firm Effect: Evidence from Korean Stock Exchange DAVID AUDRETSCH and JIM JIN / A Reconciliation of the Unemployment — New Firm Startup Paradox BERT PIEST / Planning Comprehensiveness and Strategy in SME’s HEIDI F. APPLEGATE / The Economic Impact of New Firms in Post-Socialist Countries: Bottom Up Transformation in Eastern Europe: A Review Article Book Reviews Daniel F. Jennings, Multiple Perspectives of Entrepreneurship: Text, Readings and Cases (SANDRA HONIG-HAFTEL) Joseph Mugler, Betriebswirtschaftslehre der Klein- und Mittelbetriebe (DAVID B. AUDRETSCH) Announcement Vol. 6, No.6, December 1994 TITO BOERI / Why Are Establishments so Heterogeneous? AXEL WIEANDT / Innovation and the Creation, Development and Destruction of Markets in the World Machine Tool Industry DAVID B. AUDRETSCH and ZOLTAN J. ACS / New-Firm Startups, Technology, and Macro- economic Fluctuations REINHARD STOCKMANN and RENE LEICHT /T he Pattern of Changes in the Long-Term Develop- ment of Establishment Size SVERKER ALANGE and STAFFAN JACOBSSON / Evaluation of Industrial Policy-The Case of the Swedish Textile and Clothing Industry THOMAS JENDGES / A Note on Capacity Reduction and the Role of Firm Size in Declining Industries Book Reviews William D. Bygrave and Jeffry A. Timmons, Venture Capital at the Crossroads (SANDRA HONIG-HAFTEL) Alfred Kleinknecht and Donald Bain (eds.), New Concepts in Innovation Output Measurement (ALBERT J. MENKVELD) Volume Contents