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Overview

Mark Hart is affiliated with Aston University in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research work spans several subfields, including Management of Technology and Innovation, Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science, and Education.

The core topics covered in their academic work include Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences, Firm Innovation and Growth, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Corporate Finance and Governance, Innovations in Educational Methods, Family Business Performance and Succession, and Social Capital and Networks.

Mark Hart has published articles in various academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • Studies in Higher Education
  • Small Business Economics
  • Enlighten: Publications (The University of Glasgow)
  • Regional Studies

Selected recent publications authored or co-authored by Mark Hart include:

  • From the Cabinet of Curiosities: The misdirection of research and policy debates on small firm growth (2020), International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • In search of the next growth episode: How firms catalyse and sustain periods of high growth (2022), International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship
  • Developing entrepreneurial career intention in entrepreneurial university: the role of counterfactual thinking (2022), Studies in Higher Education
  • A 'deviant men' theory of business expectations in nascent entrepreneurs (2022), Small Business Economics
  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor: Scotland 2020 Report (2021), Enlighten: Publications (The University of Glasgow)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Neha Prashar
  • Anastasia Ri
  • Simon O. Raby
  • Jonathan Levie
  • Karen Bonner

Best Publications

  • Small business performance: business, strategy and owner‐manager characteristics

    Robert A. Blackburn;Mark Hart;Thomas Wainwright

  • Measuring the impact of innovative human capital on small firms' propensity to innovate

    Helen McGuirk;Helena Lenihan;Mark Hart

  • Measuring business growth:high-growth firms and their contribution to employment in the UK

    Michael Anyadike-Danes;Karen Bonner;Mark Hart;Colin Mason

  • Global entrepreneurship and institutions: an introduction

    Jonathan Levie;Erkko Autio;Zoltan J. Acs;Mark Hart

  • Factors Affecting Self-Employment among Indian and Black Caribbean Men in Britain

    Vani K. Borooah;Mark Hart

  • Burden or benefit? Regulation as a dynamic influence on small business performance

    John Kitching;Mark Hart;Nick Wilson

  • Assessing the effectiveness of business support services in England: evidence from a theory based evaluation

    Kevin F. Mole;Mark Hart;Stephen Roper;David S. Saal

  • Differential gains from Business Link support and advice : a treatment effects approach

    Kevin F. Mole;Mark Hart;Stephen Roper;David S. Saal

  • Business and social entrepreneurs in the UK: gender, context and commitment

    Jonathan Levie;Mark Hart

  • Joining the dots: Building the evidence base for SME growth policy

    Mike Wright;Stephen Roper;Mark Hart;Sara Carter

  • Firm dynamics and job creation in the United Kingdom: 1998–2013:

    Michael Anyadike-Danes;Mark Hart;Jun Du

  • Broader or Deeper? Exploring the Most Effective Intervention Profile for Public Small Business Support:

    Kevin F. Mole;Mark Hart;Stephen Roper;David S. Saal

  • Understanding motivations for entrepreneurship

    Ute Stephan;Mark Hart;Tomasz Mickiewicz;Cord-Christian Drews

  • Resource endowment and opportunity cost effects along the stages of entrepreneurship

    Tomasz Mickiewicz;Frederick Wedzerai Nyakudya;Nicholas Theodorakopoulos;Mark Hart

  • Job generation and new and small firms: Some evidence from the late 1980s

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  • Factors Influencing New-Business Formation: A Case Study of Northern Ireland:

    R T Harrison;M Hart

  • The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful BusinessesEricRies. New York: Crown Business, 2011. 320 pages. US$26.00.

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  • Understanding motivations for entrepreneurship: a review of recent research evidence

    Ute Stephan;Mark Hart;Cord-Christian Drews

  • High growth firms, jobs and peripheral regions:the case of Scotland

    Colin Mason;Ross Brown;Mark Hart;Michael Anyadike-Danes

  • All grown up? The fate after 15 years of a quarter of a million UK firms born in 1998.

    Michael Anyadike-Danes;Mark Hart

  • Ethnic pluralism, immigration and entrepreneurship

    Tomasz M Mickiewicz;Mark Hart;Frederick Nyakudya;Nicholas Theodorakopoulos

  • The Use of Counterfactual Scenarios as a Means to Assess Policy Deadweight: An Irish Case Study

    Helena Lenihan;Mark Hart

  • The effect of business or enterprise training on opportunity recognition and entrepreneurial skills of graduates and non-graduates in the UK

    J.D. Levie;M. Hart;M. Anyadyke-Danes

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen Roper
Stephen Roper University of Warwick
Nick Wilson
Nick Wilson University of Leeds
Nigel Driffield
Nigel Driffield University of Warwick
David Smallbone
David Smallbone Kingston University
Colin Mason
Colin Mason University of Glasgow
Seamus McGuinness
Seamus McGuinness Economic and Social Research Institute
Erkko Autio
Erkko Autio Imperial College London
Zoltan J. Acs
Zoltan J. Acs George Mason University
Mike Wright
Mike Wright Imperial College London
Candida G. Brush
Candida G. Brush Babson College

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