Selected recent journal publications
Bennett, R.J., Montebruno, P., van Lieshout, C. and Smith, H., 2022. Business Entry and Exit: Career Changes of Proprietors in England and Wales (1851–81) Using Record-Linkage. Social Science History, v. 46, p.255-289. .
Bennett, R.J., Smith, H., Montebruno, P. and van Lieshout, C., 2022. Profitability of small- and medium-sized enterprises in Marshall’s time: sector and spatial heterogeneity in the nineteenth century. Cambridge Journal of Economics, v. 46, p.219-249. .
Bennett, R.J. and Hannah, L., 2022. British employer census returns in new digital records 1851–81; consistency, non-response, and truncation – what this means for analysis. Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, v. 55, p.61-77. .
Hannah, L. and Bennett, R., 2022. Large‐scale Victorian manufacturers: Reconstructing the lost 1881 UK employer census. The Economic History Review, v. 75, p.830-856. .
Bennett, R.J., Smith, H., Montebruno, P. and van Lieshout, C., 2021. Changes in Victorian entrepreneurship in England and Wales 1851-1911: Methodology and business population estimates. Business History, p.1-33. .
Smith, H., Bennett, R.J., van Lieshout, C. and Montebruno, P., 2021. Entrepreneurship in Scotland, 1851–1911. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, v. 41, p.38-64. .
van Lieshout, C., Bennett, R.J. and Smith, H., 2021. The British Business Census of Entrepreneurs and firm-size, 1851–1881: New data for economic and business historians. Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, v. 54, p.1-22. .
Bennett, R.J., Smith, H. and Montebruno, P., 2020. The Population of Non-corporate Business Proprietors in England and Wales 1891–1911. Business History, v. 62, p.1-35. .
Montebruno, P., Bennett, R.J., Smith, H. and van Lieshout, C., 2020. Machine learning classification of entrepreneurs in British historical census data. Information Processing & Management, v. 57, p.102210-. .
Smith, H., Bennett, R.J., van Lieshout, C. and Montebruno, P., 2020. Households and entrepreneurship in England and Wales, 1851–1911. History of the Family, .
Montebruno, P., Bennett, R., Van Lieshout, C., Smith, H. and Satchell, A., 2019. . The Agricultural History Review, v. 67, p.71-108.
Montebruno, P., Bennett, R.J., van Lieshout, C. and Smith, H., 2019. A tale of two tails: Do Power Law and Lognormal models fit firm-size distributions in the mid-Victorian era?. Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, v. 523, p.858-875. .
Smith, H., Bennett, R.J. and van Lieshout, C., 2019. Immigrant business proprietors in England and Wales (1851–1911). Continuity and Change, v. 34, p.253-276. .
van Lieshout, C., Smith, H., Montebruno, P. and Bennett, R.J., 2019. Female entrepreneurship: business, marriage and motherhood in England and Wales, 1851–1911. Social History, v. 44, p.440-468. .
Smith, H., Bennett, R. and Radicic, D., 2018. Towns in Victorian England and Wales: a new classification. Urban History, .
Radicic, D., Bennett, R. and Newton, G., 2017. Portfolio entrepreneurship in farming: Empirical evidence from the 1881 census for England and Wales. Journal of Rural Studies, v. 55, p.289-302. .
Bennett, R.J. 2016. Interpreting business partnerships in late Victorian Britain, Economic History Review, 69, 4, 1199-1227
Bennett, R. J. 2012. Supporting trust: Credit assessment and debt recovery through Trade Protection Societies in Britain and Ireland, 1776-1992, Journal of Historical Geography, doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2012.01.001
Bennett, R.J.(2012. Government and Small Business, Chapter 4, pp. 49-75, in S. Carter and D. Jones-Evans (eds.) Enterprise and Small Business, (2nd ed.) Financial Times/Pearson
Bennett, R.J. and M. Ramsden, 2007. The contribution of business associations to SMEs: Strategy, bundling or reassurance? International Small Business Journal, 25, 1, 49-76.
Bennett, R. J. and P. J. A. Robson 2005 The advisor-SME client relationship: an empirical test of a model of client impact, satisfaction and commitment, Small Business Economics, 25, 3, 255-271.
Ramsden, M. and R. J. Bennett, 2005 The benefits of external supports to SMEs: "Hard" versus "soft" outcomes and satisfaction levels, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 12, 2, 227-243.
Bennett, R.J. and Robson, P.J.A. 2004. The role of boards of directors in small and medium-sized firms, Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development, 11, 1, 95-113.
Bennett, R.J. and Robson, P.J.A. 2003. Changing use of external business advice and government support by SMEs in the 1990s, Regional Studies, 37, 795-811
Bennett, R.J. and Smith, C. 2003. The spatial market of business advice and consultancy to SMEs, Journal of Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 27, 309-336