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Overview

Marc Cowling is affiliated with Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to research in business, management, and economics. Their work primarily spans the fields of Business, Management and Accounting as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with a focus on several subfields including Accounting, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, and Strategy and Management.

The scientist's research interests cover a variety of topics, notably Corporate Finance and Governance, Banking Stability, Regulation, and Efficiency, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Working Capital and Financial Performance, Firm Innovation and Growth, and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Marc Cowling has published in several frequent venues, emphasizing entrepreneurship and small business topics. These publication venues include:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • Small Business Economics
  • British Journal of Management
  • Applied Economics Letters

Some of their recent papers, reflecting concerns related to entrepreneurship, finance, and the effects of COVID-19, include:

  • "Did you save some cash for a rainy COVID-19 day? The crisis and SMEs" (2020) published in International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • "Financing entrepreneurship in times of crisis: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the market for entrepreneurial finance in the United Kingdom" (2020) published in International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • "The Covid-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom and subjective well-being: Have the self-employed suffered more due to hours and income reductions?" (2021) published in International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • "The geographical impact of the Covid-19 crisis on precautionary savings, firm survival and jobs: Evidence from the United Kingdom's 100 largest towns and cities" (2021) published in International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • "Understanding the Dynamics of UK Covid-19 SME Financing" (2021) published in British Journal of Management

Marc Cowling collaborates frequently with other researchers in related fields. Their most frequent co-authors include Ross Brown, Weixi Liu, Nick Wilson, Huan Yang, and Marek Káčer.

Best Publications

  • Family firm research: the need for a methodological rethink

    Paul Westhead;Marc Cowling

  • Access to finance for innovative SMEs since the financial crisis

    Neil Lee;Hiba Sameen;Marc Cowling

  • ENTREPRENEURIAL WOMEN AND MEN: TWO DIFFERENT SPECIES?

    Marc Cowling;Mark P Taylor

  • The Development of Family Companies: Management and Ownership Imperatives

    Paul Westhead;Marc Cowling;Carole Howorth

  • Small business financing in the UK before and during the current financial crisis

    Marc Cowling;Weixi Liu;Andrew Ledger

  • What really happens to small and medium-sized enterprises in a global economic recession? UK evidence on sales and job dynamics

    Marc Cowling;Weixi Liu;Andrew Ledger;Ning Zhang

  • Employment change in independent owner-managed high-technology firms in Great Britain

    Paul Westhead;Marc Cowling

  • Performance contrasts between family and non‐family unquoted companies in the UK

    Paul Westhead;Marc Cowling

  • Did you save some cash for a rainy COVID-19 day? The crisis and SMEs

    Marc Cowling;Ross Brown;Augusto Rocha

  • The Growth – Profit Nexus

    Marc Cowling

  • Financing entrepreneurship in times of crisis: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the market for entrepreneurial finance in the United Kingdom

    Ross Brown;Augusto Rocha;Marc Cowling

  • The role of loan guarantee schemes in alleviating credit rationing in the UK

    Marc Cowling

  • Did firm age, experience, and access to finance count? SME performance after the global financial crisis

    Marc Cowling;Weixi Liu;Ning Zhang

  • Ownership and management issues in first generation and multi-generation family firms

    Paul Westhead;Carole Howorth;Marc Cowling

  • Is the Small Firms Loan Guarantee Scheme Hazardous for Banks or Helpful to Small Business

    Marc Cowling;Peter Mitchell

  • The Evolution of U.K. Self‐Employment: A Study of Government Policy and the Role of the Macroeconomy

    Marc Cowling;Peter Mitchell

  • Productivity and Corporate Governance in Smaller Firms

    Marc Cowling

  • Ownership structure pre- and post-IPOs and the operating performance of JASDAQ companies

    Kenji Kutsuna;Hideo Okamura;Marc Cowling

  • An Evaluation of Business Start-Up Support for Young People:

    Nigel Meager;Peter Bates;Marc Cowling

  • Recasting the City into City-Regions: Place Promotion, Competitiveness Benchmarking and the Quest for Urban Supremacy

    Francis J. Greene;Paul Tracey;Marc Cowling

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Westhead
Paul Westhead Durham University
Alex Coad
Alex Coad Waseda University
Carole Howorth
Carole Howorth University of York
William D. Bygrave
William D. Bygrave Babson College
Charles Baden-Fuller
Charles Baden-Fuller City, University of London
George Saridakis
George Saridakis University of Kent
Susan Marlow
Susan Marlow University of Nottingham
Colin Mason
Colin Mason University of Glasgow
Rebel A. Cole
Rebel A. Cole Florida Atlantic University
David J. Storey
David J. Storey University of Sussex

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