Report NEP-SBM-2026-08-24

This is the archive for NEP-SBM, a report on new working papers in the area of Small Business Management. João Carlos Correia Leitão (Joao Carlos Correia Leitao) issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Berfin Kardaslar & Alexander S. Kritikos & Lukas Menkhoff, 2026, "Personality Traits of Entrepreneurs and the Size of their Firms," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), number 1242.
• Pandit, Rajendra & Stratton, Leslie S., 2026, "Relative Productivity and SME Closure During COVID-19: Exploring Optimal Productivity Levels for Firm Resilience," GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO), number 1801.
• Impullitti, Giammario & Licandro, Omar & SedlÃ¡Ä ek, Petr & Spencer, Adam, 2024, "Hetereogeneous Firms, Growth and the Long Shadows of Business Cycles," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19385, Aug.
• Sanae Hobad, 2026, "Entrepreneuriat social et écosystème entrepreneurial : Une lecture à travers les données bibliométriques (2000-2022)," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05696754, Feb, DOI: 10.48374/IMIST.PRSM/ame-v8i1.60168.
• Leogrande, Angelo & di Molfetta, Mauro & Nortarnicola, Valeria & Trotta, Maria Giovanna & Magaletti, Nicola, 2026, "Certification, Not Transformation: The Performance Signature of Italy's Innovative-Firm Status and Its Regional Contingency," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number h5d7r_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/h5d7r_v1.
• Hunt, Jennifer & Cockburn, Iain & Bessen, James, 2024, "Is Distance from Innovation a Barrier to the Adoption of Artificial Intelligence?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19537, Sep.
• Stephan Heblich & Marlon Seror & Hao Xu & Yanos Zylberberg, 2026, "Industrial clusters in the long run: Evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26188, Jul.
• Taghizadeh, Rahim & Babazadeh Behestani, Salar & Arabsheibani, G. Reza, 2026, "The impact of technological change on employment: a composite indicator approach," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 140361, Jul.
• Fang, Tony & Harrison, Jennifer, 2026, "Employer Perspectives on AI in SMEs: Policy Insights for Productivity and Sustainable Careers," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18837, Jul.
• Said Goumghar & Fatima Ouahraoui & Majda Fikri, 2026, "Rethinking the logic and practices of entrepreneurial support in the age of Artificial Intelligence: Toward an adaptive and Intelligence-Augmented accompaniment framework
  [Repenser la logique et les pratiques de l'accompagnement entrepreneurial à ," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05659060, Jun, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20561251.
• Bastos, Paulo & Stapleton, Katherine & Taglioni, Daria & Wei, Hannah Yi, 2024, "Firm Networks and Global Technology Diffusion," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19534, Sep.
• Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou & Juhász, Réka & Lane, Nathan & Lo Forte, Giulia & Thurk, Jeff, 2024, "Industrial Policy in the Global Semiconductor Sector," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19402, Aug.
• Álvaro S. González, 2026, "Composition Over Volume: Firm Size, FDI, and the Compact with Africa Phase 2," Working Papers, Center for Global Development, number 752, Jul.
• Manoj Kumar & Prashanth BS & Ariful Hoque & Nasser Al Muraqab & Immanuel Azaad Moonesar & Udo Christian Braendle & Ananth Rao, 2026, "Technology Transfer Readiness, Explainable AI and Financial Innovation Capability Transitions in Expanded BRICS: Benchmarking Against Advanced Innovation Economies," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.06387, Jul.
• Dolado, Juan & Puch, Luis & Wellschmied, Felix, 2026, "Post-Great Recession Labor Market Dynamics in Spain: A Comparison of Alternative Datasets," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18755, Jun.
• Amore, Mario Daniele & Bennedsen, Morten & Mehrotra, Vikas & Shim, Jungwook & Wiwattanakantang, Yupana, 2024, "Placeholder CEOs," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19448, Sep.
• Feizi, Farhad, 2026, "Is Entrepreneurship Legitimate Where the State Is Not? Insights from Machine Learning Methods," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number vtpsk_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/vtpsk_v1.
• James Driver, 2026, "Patent Text Based Innovation-industry Classification System," CES Technical Notes Series, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, number 26-29, Jul.
• Chanya Chawla & Crystal Arnburg, 2026, "Survey Evidence on Firm AI Adoption and its Implications," Staff Analytical Papers, Bank of Canada, number 2026-22, Jun, DOI: 10.34989/sap-2026-22.
• Heidhues, Paul & Köster, Mats & Köszegi, Botond, 2024, "A Theory of Digital Ecosystems," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19524, Sep.
• Abushama, Hala & Jovanovic, Nina & Abay, Kibrom A. & Siddig, Khalid & Simbeko, Guy & Sekabira, Haruna, 2026, "Resilience of agricultural value-chains in Sudan: Findings from the THABAT Project Survey of Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)," Sudan SSP working papers, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), number 28, Jul.
• Galit Klein & Djamchid Assadi, 2025, "From collectivism to entrepreneurship: Personality traits driving entrepreneurial transformation in kibbutzim," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05703481, Feb.