Table Of Content

CONTENTS OF VOLUME 18 Vol. 18, Nos. 1-3, February—May 2002 Special Issue: Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia Guest Editors: Farrukh Iqbal and Shujiro Urata FARRUKH IQBAL and SHUJIRO URATA / Small Firm Dynamism in East Asia: An Introductory Overview DAVID B. AUDRETSCH / The Dynamic Role of Small Firms: Evidence from the U.S. HIROKI KAWAI and SHUJIRO URATA / Entry of Small and Medium Enterprises and Economic Dynamism in Japan SHUJIRO URATA and HIROKI KAWAI / Technological Progress by Small and Medium Enterprises in Japan 53> -67 BEE-YAN AW / Productivity Dynamics of Small and Medium Enterprises in Taiwan 69-84 JEFFREY B. NUGENT and SEUNG-JAE YHEE / Small and Medium Enterprises in Korea: Achievements, Constraints and Policy Issues 85-119 HIDEKI YAMAWAKI / The Evolution and Structure of Industrial Clusters in Japan 121-140 ALBERT BERRY, EDGARD RODRIGUEZ and HENRY SANDEE / Firm and Group Dynamics in the Small and Medium Enterprise Sector in Indonesia 141-161 FUKUNARI KIMURA / Subcontracting and the Performance of Small and Medium Firms in Japan 163-175 RAJAH RASIAH / Government-Business Coordination and Small Enterprise Performance in the Machine Tools Sector in Malaysia 177-195 YUEPING WANG and YANG YAO / Market Reforms, Technological Capabilities and the Performance of Small Enterprises in China 197-211 PAITOON WIBOONCHUTIKULA / Small and Medium Enterprises in Thailand: Recent Trends CARL LIEDHOLM / Small Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Africa and Latin America Vol. 18, No.4, June 2002 M. A. CARREE / Industrial Restructuring and Economic Growth TZE-WEI FU, MEI-CHU KE and YEN-SHENG HUANG /C apital Growth, Financing Source and Profitability of Small Businesses: Evidence from Taiwan Small Enterprises 257-267 ERIK BENRUD / Challenges of Existing in a Market as a Small, Low-quality Producer 269-280 WILLIAM I. NORTON, JR. and WILLIAM T. MOORE / Entrepreneurial Risk: Have We Been Asking the Wrong Question? 281-287 iy Small Business Economics 18: 333-334, 2002. 334 SYEDA-MASOODA MUKHTAR / Differences in Male and Female Management Characteristics: A Study of Owner-Manager Businesses 289-311 MEI-CHIUN TSENG / Managerial Incentives and Heterogeneous Firms 313-316 AOIFE HANLEY / Do Binary Collateral Outcome Variables Proxy Collateral Levels? The Case of Collateral from Start-ups and Existing SMEs 317-331 Contents of Volume 18 333-334