Purpose - This research note compares voter opinions regarding small business entrepreneurial activity to opinions of small business owners and links any divergence in perceptions to realized suboptimal entrepreneurial growth policy. Design/methodology/approach - Primary data collection via best–worst scaling and estimation of linear regression models. Findings - Results suggest that small business owners are less concerned about issues such as foreign competition, estate/death taxes, oil prices and labor union demands but are more concerned with domestic competition, income taxes, regulatory burdens and availability of credit from lenders. Social implications - The authors find major discrepancies in opinions about trade policy and business financing, which may lead to policy design that hinders entrepreneurship given evidence that politicians do respond to voters' opinions (Autor Originality/value - It represents the first empirical assessment of differences between voter and small business owner perspectives on entrepreneurial policy. An immediate policy implication includes the need to provide additional avenues of communication of entrepreneurs' concerns.

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比较小企业主和选民对企业发展限制的信念

目的-本研究报告将有关小型企业创业活动的选民意见与小型企业所有者的意见进行了比较，并将看法上的任何分歧与已实现的次优创业政策相联系。设计/方法/方法-通过最佳，最差的缩放和线性回归模型的估计来收集主要数据。研究结果-结果表明，小企业主不太担心诸如外国竞争，遗产税/死亡税，石油价格和工会要求等问题，而更多地关注国内竞争，所得税，监管负担和放贷人的信贷可用性。社会影响-作者发现有关贸易政策和商业融资的观点存在重大差异，