OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Did you save some cash for a rainy COVID-19 day? The crisis and SMEs	182
Financing entrepreneurship in times of crisis: Exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the market for entrepreneurial finance in the United Kingdom	162
Pivoting to stay the course: How women entrepreneurs take advantage of opportunities created by the COVID-19 pandemic	130
SME response to major exogenous shocks: The bright and dark sides of business model pivoting	97
R&D and innovation after COVID-19: What can we expect? A review of prior research and data trends after the great financial crisis	81
The impact of the global crisis on the growth of SMEs: A resource system perspective	64
COVID-19 and the importance of space in entrepreneurship research and policy	53
Strategic entrepreneurship behaviour and the innovation ambidexterity of young technology-based firms in incubators	49
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	46
SMEs and exogenous shocks: A conceptual literature review and forward research agenda	46
Perceived institutional support and small venture performance: The mediating role of entrepreneurial persistence	45
How do resilience and self-efficacy relate to entrepreneurial intentions in countries with varying degrees of fragility? A six-country study	44
Bios, mythoi and women entrepreneurs: A Wynterian analysis of the intersectional impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed women and women-owned businesses	43
The Covid-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom and subjective well-being: Have the self-employed suffered more due to hours and income reductions?	39
Strategic orientations and digital marketing tactics in cross-border e-commerce: Comparing developed and emerging markets	36
Performance stability among small and medium-sized enterprises during COVID-19: A test of the efficacy of dynamic capabilities	33
Knowledge acquisition strategy, speed of capability development and speed of SME internationalisation	32
Dynamic capabilities and performance of emerging market international new ventures: Does international entrepreneurial culture matter?	31
Start-ups’ business model changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Counteracting adversities and pursuing opportunities	31
When all doors close: Implications of COVID-19 for cosmopolitan entrepreneurs	30
Standing up against crisis-induced entrepreneurial uncertainty: Fewer teams, more habitual entrepreneurs	27
Successfully navigating the paradox of control and autonomy in succession: The role of managing ambivalent emotions	26
Navigation of the paradoxical landscape of the family business	26
A commentary on the impacts of ‘Great Lockdown’ and its aftermath on scaling firms: What are the implications for entrepreneurial research?	25
Managing the paradox: Individual ambidexterity, paradoxical leadership and multitasking in entrepreneurs across firm life cycle stages	25

Negotiating the female successor–leader role within family business succession in China	24
There is no need to shout to be heard! The paradoxical nature of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting in a Latin American family small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)	23
When fear of failure leads to intentions to act entrepreneurially: Insights from threat appraisals and coping efficacy	23
Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship in Times of Crises: The Renaissance of Entrepreneur-Focused Micro Perspectives	20
Richness in diversity: Towards more contemporary research conceptualisations of women’s entrepreneurship	20
Recognition of entrepreneurial opportunity using a socio-cognitive approach	20
Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship	20
The impact of entrepreneurs’s financial literacy on innovation within small and medium-sized enterprises	20
The door swings in and out: The impact of family support and country stability on success of women entrepreneurs in the Arab world	19
The influence of entrepreneurial personality on franchisee performance: A cross-cultural analysis	19
Heroines of enterprise: Post-recession media representations of women and entrepreneurship in a UK newspaper 2008–2016	19
Negotiating stigmatised identities: Enterprising refugee women in the United Kingdom	18
Proactive environmental strategy and firm performance: The moderating role of corporate venturing	18
Anointed or appointed? Father–daughter succession within the family business	17
Managing tensions as paradox in CEO succession: The case of nonfamily CEO in a family firm	16
The relationship between financial distress and well-being: Exploring the role of self-employment	15
From the Cabinet of Curiosities: The misdirection of research and policy debates on small firm growth	15
The impact of a crisis on entrepreneurial orientation of family firms: The role of organisational decline and generational change	15
The synergy of causation and effectuation in the process of entrepreneurial networking: Implications for opportunity development	14
Local financial development and cash holdings in Italian SMEs	14
Dynamic managerial capabilities in micro-enterprises: Stability, vulnerability and the role of managerial time allocation	14
Should we patent it or keep it a secret? The moderating role of proactive orientation in family versus non-family SMEs	13
The influence of job satisfaction on entrepreneurial intention: A cross-level investigation	12
Don’t get too emotional: How regulatory focus can condition the influence of top managers’ negative emotions on SME responses to economic crisis	11
Intersections of gender, ethnicity, place and innovation: Mapping the diversity of women-led SMEs in the United Kingdom	11
Peering inside mutual adjustment: Rhythmanalysis of return to work from maternity leave	11
Work-to-family conflict and firm performance of women entrepreneurs: Roles of work-related emotional exhaustion and competitive hostility	10
The role of digital presence and investment network signals on the internationalisation of small firms	10
The what and how of Family business paradox: Literature-inspired distillations and directions	10
Can’t always get what I want: Cultural expectations of emotional support in entrepreneurship	10
The impact of intellectual property types on the performance of business start-ups in the United States	10
Entrepreneurial passion and venture profit: Examining the moderating effects of political connections and environmental dynamism in an emerging market	9
Predicting future default on the Covid-19 bounce back loan scheme: The £46.5 billion question	9
Explaining the entrepreneurial intentions of employees: The roles of societal norms, work-related creativity and personal resources	9
In the post-crisis world, did debt and equity markets respond differently to high-tech industries and innovative firms?	9
Individual religious affiliation, religiosity and entrepreneurial intentions among students in four countries	9
Effectual market creation in the cross-border e-commerce of small-and medium-sized enterprises	8
Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review	8
Crisis and arbitrage opportunities: The role of causation, effectuation and entrepreneurial learning	8
Everyday social support processes: Household members’ instrumental and emotional support of entrepreneurs	8
Understanding internationalisation of informal African firms through a network perspective	7
Impulsivity and entrepreneurial behaviour: Exploring an unreasoned pathway	7
Family and non-family sources of knowledge diversity in family firms: The role of causation logics	7
Climbing to freedom on an impossible staircase: Exploring the emancipatory potential of becoming an entrepreneur-employer	7
A sequential relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, human resource management practices, collective organisational engagement and innovation performance of small and medium enterprises	6
Coopetition strategy as naturalised practice in a cluster of informal businesses	6
Engaging symbiotic ecosystems to build community centred business models for the BoP: Evidence from small social enterprises in East Africa	6
Contextualising rural entrepreneurship – A strong structuration perspective on gendered-local agency	6
Legitimation work in sustainable entrepreneurship: Sustainability ventures’ journey towards the establishment of major partnerships	6
Why do small businesses seek support for managing people? Implications for theory and policy from an analysis of UK small business survey data	6

Small and medium-sized enterprises response to Covid-19: The effect of external openness and procedural management	5
Book review: Research, innovation and entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: Vision 2030	5
Pace of innovation and speed of small and medium-sized enterprise international expansion	5
Are founder-CEOs resilient to crises? The impact of founder-CEO succession on new firm survival	5
Entrepreneurial Leadership in Austrian Family SMEs: A Configurational Approach	5
The drivers of the post-entry internationalisation commitment of small and medium-sized enterprises	5
Linking SME international marketing agility to new technology adoption	5
Legitimacy and innovation in social enterprises	5
Pay incentives, human capital and firm innovation in smaller firms	5
Women on the edge of a breakthrough? A stereotype threat theory of women’s angel investing	5
The emergence of team entrepreneurial passion from team helping: An affective events theory perspective	5
‘In the night kitchen’: Gender, identity and artisanal work	4
Internationalisation path heterogeneity and growth for international new ventures	4
Business unpredictability, improvisation and business network commitment in small and medium-sized enterprise market entry	4
Relying on the engagement of others: A review of the governance choices facing social media platform start-ups	3
Book Review: Networks, SMEs, and the university: The process of collaboration and open innovation	3
Activating collective agency in disrupted contexts: The social-cognitive context of ad hoc organising in a small and medium-sized enterprise	3
The influence of the positive affective trait on the willingness to act entrepreneurially: The mediating effect of opportunity evaluation	3
Juggling on a tightrope: Experiences of small and micro business managers responding to employees with mental health difficulties	3
High growth episodes among R&D intensive firms: Evidence for Europe, US and Japan	3
Book review: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy	3
The hidden price of free advice: Negotiating the paradoxes of public sector business advising	3
The technological novelty of invention and speed to IPO of high-tech start-ups	3
How do foreign entrepreneurs adapt to local corruption norms in the Middle East? Institutional multiplicities and individual adaptation	3
Immanent sensemaking by entrepreneurs and the interpretation of consumer context	3
The entrepreneurial gender gap: The role of in-group support and national embeddedness values in young women’s entrepreneurship	3