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Small Business Economics (2005) 24: 499-501 CONTENTS OF VOLUME 24 Vol. 24, No.1, February 2005 TAKEHIKO YASUDA / Firm Growth, Size, Age and Behavior in Japanese Manufacturing MICHAEL I. LUGER and JUN KOO / Defining and Tracking Business Start-Ups AOIFE HANLEY and JONATHAN CROOK / The Higher Cost of Follow-Up Loans POORAN WYNARCZYK and ROBERT WATSON / Firm Growth and Supply Chain Partnerships: An Empirical Analysis of U.K. SME Subcontractors TADAHISA KOGA / R&D Subsidy and Self-Financed R&D: The Case of Japanese High- Technology Start-Ups THOMAS ASTEBRO and IRWIN BERNHARDT / The Winner’s Curse of Human Capital HO YEON KIM / The Locational and Functional Behavior of U.S. Autoparts Suppliers Vol. 24, No.2, March 2005 LORI A. MUSE, MATTHEW W. RUTHERFORD, SHARON L. OSWALD and JENNIE E. RAYMOND / Commitment to Employees: Does It Help or Hinder Small Business Performance? ROGNVALDUR SAEMUNDSSON and ASA LINDHOLM DAHLSTRAND / How Business Opportunities Constrain Young Technology-Based Firms from Growing into Medium-Sized Firms LUISA ROSTI and FRANCESCO CHELLI/ Gender Discrimination, Entrepreneurial Talent and Self-Employment JOHN LUNN and TODD STEEN / The Heterogeneity of Self-Employment: The Example of Asians in the United States SJOERD BEUGELSDIJK and NIELS NOORDERHAVEN | Personality Characteristics of Self-Employed; An Empirical Study JAN CAMERLYNCK, HUBERT OOGHE and TINE DE LANGHE | Pre-Acquisition Profile of Privately Held Companies Involved in Take-Overs: An _ Empirical Study NOBUYUKI HARADA and KYOICHI KIJIMA / Consumption-Leisure Preference Structure: A New Explanation of the Evans-Jovanovic Results for Entrepreneurial Choice Contents of Volume Vol. 24, No.3, April 2005 Special Issue on: Causes and Effects of New Business Creation; Empirical Evidence from the global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Guest Editors: Rolf Sternberg and Sander Wennekers ROLF STERNBERG and SANDER WENNEKERS / Determinants and Effects of New Business Creation Using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Data PAUL REYNOLDS, NIELS BOSMA, ERKKO AUTIO, STEVE HUNT, NATALIE DE BONO, ISABEL SERVAIS, PALOMA LOPEZ-GARCIA and NANCY CHIN / Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Data Collection Design and Implementation 1998-2003 PIA ARENIUS and MARIA MINNITI / Perceptual Variables and Nascent Entrepreneurship PIA ARENIUS and DIRK DE CLERCQ/ A Network-based Approach on Opportunity Recognition HECTOR O. ROCHA and ROLF STERNBERG / Entrepreneurship: The Role of Clusters Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Evidence from Germany SANDER WENNEKERS, ANDRE VAN STEL, ROY THURIK and PAUL REYNOLDS Nascent Entrepreneurship and the Level of Economic Development ANDRE VAN STEL, MARTIN CARREE and ROY THURIK / The Effect of Entrepre- neurial Activity on National Economic Growth ZOLTAN J. ACS and ATTILA VARGA Entrepreneurship, Agglomeration and Technolo- gical Change POH KAM WONG, YUEN PING HO and ERKKO AUTIO / Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Growth: Evidence from GEM data Vol. 24, No.4, May 2005 PER DAVIDSSON / Paul D. Reynolds: Entrepreneurship Research Innovator, Coordinator, and Disseminator PAUL D. REYNOLDS / Understanding Business Creation: Serendipity and Scope in Two Decades of Business Creation Studies MARCO VAN GELDEREN, ROY THURIK and NIELS BOSMA / Success and Risk Factors in the Pre-Startup Phase Contents of Volume ROBERT LENSINK, PAUL VAN STEEN and ELMER STERKEN / Uncertainty and Growth of the Firm JUNG-CHIN SHEN and JEFFREY J. REUER / Adverse Selection in Acquisitions of Small Manufacturing Firms: A Comparison of Private and Public Targets DIRK DE CLERCQ, HARRY J. SAPIENZA and HANS CRIJNS / The Internationalization of Small and Medium-Sized Firms Erratum Vol. 24, No.5, June 2005 MARK CASSON / The Individual — Opportunity Nexus: A Review of Scott Shane: A General Theory of Entrepreneurship HEINZ HOLLENSTEIN / Determinants of International Activities: Are SMEs Different? PETER JOHNSON / Targeting Firm Births and Economic Regeneration in a Lagging Region ROBERT WATSON and NICK WILSON / Board Pay and the Seperation of Ownership from Control in U.K. SMEs JOHN ASHTON and KEVIN KEASEY / Competition and the Provision of Banking Services to SMEs in the U.K. DAN JOHANSSON / The Turnover of Firms and Industry Growth Book Review MICHAEL FRITSCH, Review of “Small Firms and Entrepreneurship in Central and Eastern Europe — A Socio-Economic Perspective’ edited by Oliver Pfirrmann and Giinter H. Walter, Heidelberg and New York 2002: Physica