Working Papers
The most current working papers are available online. If you are interested in a particular paper that is not online then please contact the Publications Secretary:
| No. | Date | Title of Working Paper | Author |
| 117 | May 2012 |
Ucbasaran, D., Shepherd, D., Lockett, A. and Lyon, J. |
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| 116 | April 2012 | Stephen Roper, Priit Vahter and James H Love | |
| 115 | March 2012 | Joan-Lluis Capelleras and Kevin F Mole | |
| 114 | February 2012 | Stephen Roper, James H Love and Priit Vahter | |
| 113 | January 2012 | Priit Vahter, James H Love and Stephen Roper | |
| 112 | July 2011 | James H Love, Stephen Roper and Priit Vahter | |
| 111 | July 2011 |
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Stephen Roper and Nola Hewitt-Dundas |
| 110 | September 2010 | In with the New: The Determinants of Prescribing Innovation by General Practitioners in Ireland |
Jane Bourke and Stephen Roper |
| 109 | May 2010 | Knowledge, Openness, Innovation and Growth in UK Business Services |
James Love and Stephen Roper |
| 108 | May 2010 | Moving On: From Enterprise Policy to Innovation Policy in the Western Balkans |
Stephen Roper |
| 107 | November 2009 | From Knowledge to Added Value: A Comparative, Panel-Data Anaylsis of the Innovation Value Chain in Irish and Swiss Manufacturing Firms |
Stephen Roper and Spyros Arvanitis |
| 106 | August 2009 | Innovation in Transition: A Comparison of the Innovation Potential of Incumbent Firms and Innovative Start-ups in the Western Balkans |
Stephen Roper |
| 105 | August 2009 | Broader or Deeper? Exploring the Most Effective Intervention Profile for Public Small Business Support |
Kevin Mole, Mark Hart, Stephen Roper and David Saal |
| 104 | June 2009 | Public R & D and Regional Development: Spillovers from University and Company-Based Research Centres |
Stephen Roper and Nola Hewitt-Dundas |
| 103 | June 2009 | Output Additionality of Public Support for Innovation: Evidence for Irish Manufacturing Plants |
Nola Hewitt-Dundas and Stephen Roper |
| 102 | January 2009 | Creating Advantage in Peripheral Regions: The Role of Publicy Funded R & D Centres This paper was revised in July 2010 |
Nola Hewitt-Dundas and Stephen Roper |
| 101 | September 2008 | Worlds Apart? A Comparison of the NPD Strategies of Biopharmaceutical Firms in Europe and the US |
Tianjiao Xia and Stephen Roper |
| 100 | September 2008 | Openness and Innovation: Home and Expert Demand Effects on Manufacturing Innovation: Panel Data Evidence for Ireland and Switzerland |
Martin Woerter and Stephen Roper |
| 99 | June 2008 | Management Formality, Size of Firm and Employee Evaluations of Work |
David Storey, George Saridakis, Sukanya Sen-Gupta, Paul Edwards and Robert Blackburn |
| 98 | June 2008 | Do Entrepreneurs Really Learn? Evidence from Bank Data |
Julian Frankish, Richard Roberts and David Storey |
| 97 | May 2008 | Signalling Process and Self-Selection Mechanism in Entrepreneurial Finance |
Liang Han, Stuart Fraser and David Storey |
| 96 | April 2008 | Is There Ethnic Discrimination in the UK Market for Small Business Credit? |
Stuart Fraser |
| 95 | March 2008 | Are Good or Bad Borrowers Discouraged from Applying for Loans? Evidence from US Small Business Credit Markets |
Liang Han, Stuart Fraser and David Storey |
| 94 | March 2008 | Service Innovation, Embeddedness and Business Performance: UK Regional Evidence |
James H Love, Stephen Roper and Nola Hewitt-Dundas |
| 93 | March 2008 | Assessing the Effectiveness of Business Support Services in England: Evidence from a Theory Based Evaluation |
Kevin Mole, Mark Hart, Stephen Roper and David Saal |
| 92 | February 2008 | Envisioning, Enabling and Enacting: Metamorphosing the Enterprise: P3 Diagnostic | Nigel Sykes |
| 91 | January 2008 | From Capability to Connectivity - Absorptive Capacity and Exploratory Alliances in Biopharmaceutical Firms: A US-Europe Comparison | Tianjiao Xia and Stephen Roper |
| 90 | November 2007 | Knowledge, Capabilities and Manufacturing Innovation: A US-Europe Comparison | Stephen Roper, Jan Youtie, Philip Shapira and Andrea Fernandez Ribas |
| 89 | June 2006 |
The Impact of Enterprise Size on Employment Tribunal Incidence and Outcomes: Evidence from Britain |
George Saridakis, Sukanya Sen-Gupta, Paul Edwards and David Storey |
| 88 | August 2005 | Evaluating Youth Entrepreneurship: the Case of the Prince’s Trust | Francis Greene |
| 87 | June 2005 | Youth Entrepreneurship: Latent Entrepreneurship, Market Failure and Enterprise Support | Francis Greene |
| 86 | April 2005 | Do More Heavily Regulated Economies Have Poorer Performing New Ventures?: Evidence from Britain and Spain |
Joan-Lluis Capelleras, Kevin Mole, Francis Greene and David Storey |
| 85 | July 2004 | Are Entrepreneurs Eternal Optimists or do they ‘Get Real’? | Stuart Fraser and Francis Greene |
| 84 | May 2004 |
An Analysis of Growth in New Firms and the Impact of Liquidity Constraints |
Graham Hay and Kevin Mole |
| 83 | March 2004 | Start-up size and subsequent growth: English and Spanish new businesses compared |
Joan-Lluis Capelleras, Kevin Mole and Francis Greene |
| 82 | December 2003 | Bank Interest Margins and Business Start-up Collateral: Testing for Convexity |
Andrew Burke and Aoife Hanley |
| 81 | December 2003 | Beyond the ‘Employee or Entrepreneur’ Dichotomy: Accounting for Entrepreneurial Persistence and Type | Andrew Burke, Felix Fitzroy and Michael Nolan |
| 80 | December 2003 | Who will pay for Innovation in the Digital Music Industry? Personal versus Commercial Users and Price Regulation | Andrew Burke |
| 79 | August 2003 |
How do Banks Pick Safer Ventures? A Theory Relating the Importance of Risk Aversion and Collateral to Interest margins and Credit Rationing |
Andrew Burke and Aoife Hanley |
| 78 | March 2003 | Stuart Fraser and Francis Greene | |
| 77 | October 2002 |
Self Employment and The EnterpriseCulture!” ”Lubbly Jubbly |
Stuart Fraser and Francis Greene |
| 76 | October 2002 | Tracking Euro Preparations amongst UK SMEs | Francis Greene and Kevin Mole |
| 75 | October 2002 | Some Issues in Productivity and the Small Firm |
Kevin Mole |
| 74 | October 2002 |
On the Relationship Between Antitrust and Copyright Law: Economic Verus Moral Rights |
Andrew Burke |
| 73 | August 2002 |
How Do Banks Pick Safer Ventures? Theory And Evidence Of The Importance Of Collateral, Interest Margins And Credit Rationing |
Andrew Burke & Aoife Hanley |
| 72 | May 2001 | Enterprise Support: A Tonic for Young People | Francis Greene |
| 71 | October 2000 | Envisioning, Enabling and Enacting; Metamorphosing the Enterprise | Nigel Sykes |
| 70 | August 2000 | A Theory of Discouraged Borrowers | Yoshinori Kon & David Storey |
| 69 | November 1999 | Human Resource Management Policies And Practices In SMEs In The UK: Does It Really Influence Their Performance | David Storey |
| 68 | September 1999 | Discouraged Borrowers: A Study of Micro and Small Businesses in Trinidad and Tobago | David Storey |
| 67 | August 1999 | The Management Of Newly Registered JASDAQ Firms | B Kozo Yamada and Marc Cowling |
| 66 | April 1999 | Is The Organisation Encoded With A “DNA” Which Determines Its Development?: A Theoretical Model Which Describes The Process Of Growth Of Organisation Through A Similar Process To The Metamorphosis Of An “Egg To A Butterfly” | Nigel Sykes |
| 65 | December 1998 | The Determination of Profits in Japan’s Small Business Sector | Noriyuki Doi and Marc Cowling |
| 64 | December 1998 | The Growth Profit Nexus | Marc Cowling |
| 63 | November 1998 | Fixed Wages Or Productivity Pay: Evidence From 15 EU Countries | Marc Cowling |
| 62 | November 1998 | Performance Related Pay In Southern Europe | Marc Cowling |
| 61 | November 1998 | The Extent and Determination of PRP Systems in Scandinavian Countries | Marc Cowling |
| 60 | November 1998 | Are Entrepreneurs different across Countries? | Marc Cowling |
| 59 | September 1998 | Six Steps to Heaven: Evaluating the Impact of Public Policies to Support Small Businesses in Developed Economies | David Storey |
| 58 | April 1998 | Estimating The Impact Of Publicly Subsidised Advisory Services upon Small Firm Performance: The Case of the DTI Marketing Initiative | Colin Wren and David Storey |
| 57 | April 1998 | Entrepreneurial Ability And The Size Distribution Of Firms | Mark Taylor & Marc Cowling |
| 56 | February 1998 | The Entrepreneurial Society | Marc Cowling |
| 55 | February 1998 | The Performance Of JASDAQ Companies And Venture Capital Investment: Before And After Floatation | Kenji Kutsana and Marc Cowling |
| 54 | January 1998 | Public Financing Initiatives For Promoting Smaller Firms Predicting Defaults And Hazard Rates On The UK | Marc Cowling and Peter Mitchell |
| 53 | November 1997 | Is There Adverse Selection in the Credit Market? | Robert Cressy and Otto Toivanen |
| 52 | October 1997 | Small Business Loan Requests: Who Gets the Cash? | Marc Cowling |
| 51 | October 1997 | The incidence of Loan Collateralisation in Small Business Lending Contracts | Marc Cowling |
| 50 | October 1997 | The determination of Bank Small Business Loan Premia in the UK | Marc Cowling |
| 49 | April 1997 | Entrepreneurial Women and Men: Two Different Species? | Marc Cowling, Mark Taylor and Peter Mitchell |
| 48 | April 1997 | The Impact Of Board Director Education, Training And Development On The Performance Of Middle Market Firms In The UK | Elizabeth Amos, Jane Spiller, David Storey and Richard Wade |
| 47 | February 1997 | Job Creation and the Self Employed: A Story of Life, Wealth and Vocational Qualifications | Marc Cowling, Peter Mitchell and Mark Taylor |
| 46 | January 1997 | Production Functions: The Role Of Managers And Entrepreneurial Scale Diseconomies | Marc Cowling |
| 45 | December 1996 | The Evans and Jovanovic Equivalence Theorem and Credit Rationing: Another Look” (revised version) | Robert Cressy |
| 44 | September 1996 | Independent SMEs and Graduates: Assessing the Contribution of STEP to the SME | Paul Westhead and Marc Cowling |
| 43 | September 1996 | Ownership And Management Issues In First And Multi-Generation Family Firms | Paul Westhead and Marc Cowling |
| 42 | August 1996 | Management and Ownership Issues in Family and Non-Family Companies | Paul Westhead and Marc Cowling |
| 41 | August 1996 | Graduates and SMEs: Assessing the Contribution of the Shell Technology EnterpriseProgramme (STEP) | Paul Westhead and Marc Cowling |
| 40 | August 1996 | Novice, Portfolio and Serial Founders: Are they Different? | Paul Westhead and Marc Cowling |
| 39 | April 1996 | Small business Risk: A Firm Bank Perspective | David Storey and Robert Cressy |
| 38 | April 1996 | Initial Tests on the Sensitivity of The Parameters of the Loan Guarantee Scheme | Marc Cowling |
| 37 | March 1996 | Regional Patterns and Determinants of Small Firm Loans Issued Under the Loan Guarantee Scheme in the UK | Marc Cowling |
| 36 | March 1996 | Technology-Based Firms Located on science Parks: The Applicability of Bullocks ‘Soft-Hard’ Model | Paul Westhead and Stephen Batstone |
| 35 | March 1996 | Job Related Formal Training by Employers: A Case for Targeting? | Paul Westhead |
| 34 | February 1996 | Self Employment: A Last Resort or a Long-Run Decision? Evidence from Self Employed Individuals and Those who Employ Others | Marc Cowling and Peter Mitchell |
| 33 | January 1996 | Performance Contrasts Between Family & Non-Family Unquoted Companies in the UK | Paul Westhead and Marc Cowling |
| 32 | January 1996 | Demographic contrasts Between Family & Non-family Unquoted Companies in the UK | Paul Westhead and Marc Cowling |
| 31 | January 1996 | R&D inputs and Outputs of Technology Based firms Located On and Off Science Parks | Paul Westhead |
| 30 | October 1995 | The Evolution of Firm-Size Distribution in Japanese and UKManufacturing: A Study of Small Business presence | Mar Cowling and Noriyuki Doi |
| 29 | October 1995 | Management Training in Small Firms: A Case of Market Failure | David Storey & Paul Westhead |
| 28 | June 1995 | Financing Technology-Based Firms in the United Kingdom | David Storey & Paul Westhead |
| 27 | June 1995 | The High Technology Small Firm Sector in the UKDuring a Recessionary period | Dylan Jones Evans and Paul Westhead |
| 26 | May 1995 | Credit Rationing or Monetary Illusion? Evidence from Defaults Under the Loan Guarantee Scheme | Robert Cressy and Marc Cowling |
| 25 | February 1995 | Pre-Entrepreneurial Income Vash=Flow Growth & Survival of Start-up Businesses: Model & Tests on UKData | Robert Cressy |
| 24 | January 1995 | Links between higher Education Institutes & High Technology Firms | Paul Westhead and David Storey |
| 23 | November 1994 | Survival & Employment Growth Contrasts Between ‘Types’ of Owner-Managed High-Technology Firms | Paul Westhead |
| 22 | November 1994 | Employment Change in Independent Owner-Managed High-technology Firms in Great Britain | Paul Westhead and Marc Cowling |
| 21 | November 1994 | An Exploratory Analysis of the Factors Associated With the Survival of Independent High-Technology Firms In Great Britain | Paul Westhead, David Storey and Marc Cowling |
| 20 | October 1994 | Are Business Start-ups Debt-Rationed | Robert Cressy |
| 19 | October 1994 | A matched Pairs Comparison of ‘Exporting’ and ‘Non-Exporting’ Small firms in great Britain | Paul Westhead |
| 18 | September 1994 | Management Training & Small Firm Performance A Critical Review | David Storey and Paul Westhead |
| 17 | April 1994 | Staying With It: Some Fundamental Determinants of Business Start-up Longevity | Robert Cressy |
| 16 | April 1994 | The Economics of Information & SME policy in the European Union | Mike Coyne and Stephen Creight-Tyte |
| 15 | February 1993 | A Matched Pairs Comparison of New Owner-Managed Businesses in ‘Rural’ & ‘Urban’ Areas of Great Britain | Paul Westhead |
| 14 | June 1993 | Entrepreneurship in the Works of G.L.S. Shackle: The Prescient thoughts of a Creative Imagination | Stephen Batstone |
| 13 | February 1993 | Small Business Borrowing & Control: A Theory of Entrepreneurial Types | Robert Cressy |
| 12 | February 1993 | Loan Commitments & business Starts: An Empirical Investigation of UKData | Robert Cressy |
| 11 | November 1992 | Should we Abandon the Support to Start up Businesses | David Storey |
| 10 | August 1992 | The Effect of Labour Markets Discrimination on Women’s Expectations of Self Employment | Susan Marlow and Adam Strange |
| 9 | August 1992 | Small Firms Debt Rescheduling Versus Insolvency: The Bank’s Decision Problem | Robert Cressy |
| 8 | August 1992 | Business & Proprietor Characteristics, Complementary Finance Sources, Collateral & Bank Lending: The Case of UKBusiness Starts | Robert Cressy |
| 7 | March 1992 | An Examination of the Formulation of Policies by Training & Enterprise Councils | Geoff Barnes |
| 6 | January 1992 | Small Firm Bankruptcy Prediction: Span & Location of Trend Effects | Robert Cressy |
| 5 | December 1991 | Cost of Capital & Market Power: The Effect of Size Dispersion & Entry Barriers in Market Equilibrium | Robert Cressy |
| 4 | November 1991 | Births, Deaths and Turbulence in Englandand Wales | Stephen Batstone and Emma Mansfield |
| 3 | May 1991 | Entrepreneurial Reputation & Social Capital | Stephen Batstone |
| 2 | March 1990 | Funeral Directors | David Storey and Susan Marlow |
| 1 | June 1989 | The Characteristics of Young Companies Quoted on the Unlisted Securities Market | Helen Stoddart and David Storey |
