In the name of entrepreneurship? : the logic and effects of special regulatory treatment for small business / / Susan M. Gates, Kristin J. Leuschner, editors.
There has been ongoing concern that some regulations, rules, and government policies place a disproportionate burden on small businesses and entrepreneurs. For this reason, small businesses often receive special regulatory treatment, such as exemptions from legislation or extended deadlines for comp...
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
| Notes: | "Supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation." |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter One - Introduction; Managing the Relationship Between Business and Society; The Politics of the Legal and Regulatory Environments; Small Businesses and the Legal and Regulatory Environments; Improved Understanding of the Impact of Regulation on Small Businesses Is Needed; Overview of the Book; Chapter Two - The Impact of Regulation and Litigation on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship: An Overview; Corporate and Securities Law; Environmental Protection; Employment Law and Regulation
- Health-Insurance RegulationsChapter Conclusion; Chapter Three - State Health-Insurance Mandates, Consumer-Directed Health Plans, and Health Savings Accounts: Are They a Panacea for Small Businesses?; Small Businesses Typically Face Restricted Health-Insurance Options; State Health-Insurance Mandates Seek to Expand Small-Business Options; State Mandates Have Not Improved Small-Business Access to Health Insurance; State Health-Insurance Mandates Have Had Unintended Effects; Consumer-Directed Health Plans Could Expand Options for Small Businesses
- Small Firms Have Not Been Especially Quick to Adopt Consumer-Directed Health PlansAdditional Evidence on the Use of Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Health Savings Accounts, and High-Deductible Health Plans by Small Businesses; Consumer-Directed Health Plan Utilization and Growth Do Not Vary by Firm Size; Persistence in Consumer-Directed Health Plan Offerings; Which Firms Are Likelier to Offer Consumer-Directed Health Plans?; Longitudinal Analysis of Consumer-Directed Health Plan Offerings; Benefit Design of Health Reimbursement Arrangementsand Health Savings Accounts
- Consumer-Directed Health Plans Are Growing in Popularity but Do Not Appear to Be a Panacea for Small BusinessesConclusion; Chapter Four - Small Businesses and Workplace Fatality Risk: An Exploratory Analysis; The Relationship Between Firm Size and Risk; Previous Research on Size and Risk; Data and Methods; Findings; Implications for Policy and Research; Chapter Five - Sarbanes-Oxley's Effects on Small Firms: What Is the Evidence?; Introduction and Background; Overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; The Special Case of Small Firms; Evidence on Accounting and Audit Costs
- Evidence on Market Reactions and Firm ValueEvidence on Deregistrations; Proposals to Mitigate Sarbanes-Oxley's Effect on Small Firms; Conclusion; Chapter Six - Do the Owners of Small Law Firms Benefit from Limited Liability?; Importance of Liability for Small Professional Firms; Potential Value of LLP and LLC Forms to Small Professional Firms; Existing Evidence on the LLP and LLC Forms Among Professional Firms; Focus of This Chapter; Organizational Forms for Multiowner Law Firms; Data and Methods; Results; Conclusion; Chapter Seven - Data Resources for Policy Research on Small Businesses
- Assessing Data Set Value