''Small Business Economics'' is a

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published by

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covering research into

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...

from different disciplines, including

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics analy ...

, finance,

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psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

, and

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. The

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are Z.J. Acs (

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) and D.B. Audretsch (

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2017

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of 2.852, ranking it in the top 20% of 245 journals in the category "Economics".

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/business+for+professionals/journal/11187 Business and management journals Springer Science+Business Media academic journals Quarterly journals Publications established in 1989 English-language journals