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CONTENTS TO VOLUME 7 Vol.7 No.1, February 1995 DAVID STOREY, ROBERT WATSON, and POORAN WYNARCZYK / The Remuneration of Non-Owner Managers in UK Unquoted and Unlisted Securities Market Enterprises: An Empirical Analysis of Firm Specific, Human Capital and Job History Influences MEINE PIETER VAN DIJK / Flexible Specialisation, The New Competition and Industrial Districts JOACHIM WAGNER /E xports, Firm Size, and Firm Dynamics KEVIN KEASEY and PAUL MCGUINNESS / Underpricing in New Equity Listings: A Conceptual Re-Appraisal BRYAN GLADSTONE and JENNIFER LANE LEE / The Operation of the Insolvency System in the U.K.: Some Implications for Entrepreneurialism LORENZO BERRA, LAURA PIATTI, and GIAMPAOLO VITALI / The Internationalization Process in the Small and Medium Sized Firms: A Case Study on the Italian Clothing Industry Information for Authors Vol. 7, No.2, April 1995 SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEW FIRM FORMATION AND REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Guest Editor: Mike Danson MICHAEL W. DANSON / New Firm Formation and Regional Economic Development: An Introduc- tion and Review of the Scottish Experience 81-87 GAVIN C. REID / Early Life-Cycle Behaviour of Micro-Firms in Scotland 89-95 MARK HART and ERIC HANVEY / Job Generation and New and Small Firms: Some Evidence from the Late 1980s 97-109 PAUL WESTHEAD and MARC COWLING / Employment Change in Independent Owner-Managed High-Technology Firms in Great Britain 111-140 MARC COWLING and NICK CLAY /F actors Influencing Take-Up Rates on the Loan Guarantee Scheme 141-152 COLIN M. MASON and RICHARD T. HARRISON / Closing the Regional Equity Capital Gap: The Role of Informal Venture Capital 153-172 Small Business Economics 7: 487-489, 1995. Contents to Volume 7 Vol. 7, No.3, June 1995 HESSEL OOSTERBEEK and MIRJAM VAN PRAAG / Firm-Size Wage Differentials in the Netherlands 173-182 MASATAKA FUJITA / Small and Medium-Sized Transnational Corporations: Trends and Patterns of Foreign Direct Investment 183-204 ROBERT C. CRESSY / Cost of Capital and Market Power: The Effect of Size Dispersion & Entry Barriers on Market Equilibrium 205-212 JOZEF KONINGS / Gross Job Flows and the Evolution of Size in U.K. Establishments 213-220 ENRICO SANTARELLI and ROBERTA PIERGIOVANNI / The Determinants of Firm Start-Up and Entry in Italian Producer Services 221-230 ROBERT W. HUTCHINSON / The Capital Structure and Investment Decisions of the Small Owner- Managed Firm: Some Exploratory Issues 231-239 ALBERTO DE TONI, GUIDO NASSIMBENI, and STEFANO TONCHIA / Small Local Firms Inside the Supply Chain: Challenges and Perspectives 241-249 Vol.7, No.4, August 1995 MASATAKA FUJITA / Small and Medium-sized Transnational Corporations: Salient Features 251-271 RIK DONCKELS and JOHAN LAMBRECHT / Networks and Small Business Growth: An Ex- planatory Model 273-289 ROBERT CRESSY / Business Borrowing and Control: A Theory of Entrepreneurial Types 291-300 PER DAVIDSSON, LEIF LINDMARK, and CHRISTER OLOFSSON / Small Firms, Business Dynamics and Differential Development of Economic Well-Being 301-315 JOHN BALDWIN and GARNETT PICOT / Employment Generation by Small Producers in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector 317-331 Vol.7, No.5, October 1995 Publisher’s Note iii ZOLTAN J. ACS / Symposium on Harrison’s “Lean and Mean” 333-335 DAVID J. STOREY / Symposium on Harrison’s “Lean and Mean”: A Job Generation Perspective 337-340 STEVEN KLEPPER / Symposium on Harrison’s “Lean and Mean”: A Technological Perspective 341-344 JOSHUA LERNER / Symposium on Harrison’s “Lean and Mean”: A Finance Perspective 345-347 DONALD SIEGEL/ Symposium on Harrison’s “Lean and Mean”: A Productivity Perspective 349-351 JOHN DE LA MOTHE, GILLES PAQUET, and JEFFREY ROY / Symposium on Harrison’s “Lean and Mean”: A Policy Perspective 353-356 BENNETT HARRISON / Symposium on Harrison’s “Lean and Mean”: What Are the Questions? 357-363 Contents to Volume 7 ALEXANDER I. AGEEV, MIKHAIL V. GRATCHEV and ROBERT D. HISRICH / Entrepreneur- ship in the Soviet Union and Post-Socialist Russia 365-376 TIMOTHY BATES / A Comparison of Franchise and Independent Small Business Survival Rates 377-388 PAUL D. REYNOLDS, BRENDA MILLER, and WILBUR R. MAKI / Explaining Regional Variation in Business Births and Deaths: U.S. 1976-88 389-407 Announcements 409-410 Vol. 7, No.6, December 1995 GIOVANNI DOSI, ORIETTA MARSILI, LUIGI ORSENIGO, and ROBERTA SALVATORE / Learning, Market Selection and the Evolution of Industrial Structures 411-436 VLADIMIR BENACEK and ALENA ZEMPLINEROVA / Problems and Environment of Small Businesses in the Czech Republic 437-450 ALBERT N. LINK / The Use of Literatuie-Based Innovation Output Indicators for Research Evaluation 451-455 JAMES H. LOVE, FRANK H. STEPHEN, and ALAN A. PATERSON /B usiness Strategies and the Small Professional Firm: Evidence from the Conveyancing Market 457-468 JOACHIM WAGNER / Firm Size and Job Creation in Germany 469-474 JULIE ANN ELSTON / Banks, Finance and Investment in Germany: A Review Article 475-479 Book Reviews: Bruce A. Kirchhoff, Entrepreneurship and Dynamic Capitalism (REBECCA HENDERSON) 481-482 D. J. Storey, Understanding the Small Business Sector (GAVIN C. REID) 482-483 List of Reviewers 485-486 Volume Contents 487-489