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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
SMEs and exogenous shocks: A conceptual literature review and forward research agenda	80
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	56
The Covid-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom and subjective well-being: Have the self-employed suffered more due to hours and income reductions?	46
Performance stability among small and medium-sized enterprises during COVID-19: A test of the efficacy of dynamic capabilities	45
Start-ups’ business model changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Counteracting adversities and pursuing opportunities	44
Dynamic capabilities and performance of emerging market international new ventures: Does international entrepreneurial culture matter?	41
Standing up against crisis-induced entrepreneurial uncertainty: Fewer teams, more habitual entrepreneurs	36
Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship in Times of Crises: The Renaissance of Entrepreneur-Focused Micro Perspectives	32
Richness in diversity: Towards more contemporary research conceptualisations of women’s entrepreneurship	29
Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship	27
The door swings in and out: The impact of family support and country stability on success of women entrepreneurs in the Arab world	25
Negotiating stigmatised identities: Enterprising refugee women in the United Kingdom	23
The synergy of causation and effectuation in the process of entrepreneurial networking: Implications for opportunity development	22
Local financial development and cash holdings in Italian SMEs	21
Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review	17
The impact of a crisis on entrepreneurial orientation of family firms: The role of organisational decline and generational change	17
Dynamic managerial capabilities in micro-enterprises: Stability, vulnerability and the role of managerial time allocation	17
The relationship between financial distress and well-being: Exploring the role of self-employment	17
Effectual market creation in the cross-border e-commerce of small-and medium-sized enterprises	16
Don’t get too emotional: How regulatory focus can condition the influence of top managers’ negative emotions on SME responses to economic crisis	16
Predicting future default on the Covid-19 bounce back loan scheme: The £46.5 billion question	15
Understanding internationalisation of informal African firms through a network perspective	15
Peering inside mutual adjustment: Rhythmanalysis of return to work from maternity leave	13
Intersections of gender, ethnicity, place and innovation: Mapping the diversity of women-led SMEs in the United Kingdom	13
Crisis and arbitrage opportunities: The role of causation, effectuation and entrepreneurial learning	13

The influence of job satisfaction on entrepreneurial intention: A cross-level investigation	13
Legitimacy and innovation in social enterprises	12
Pay incentives, human capital and firm innovation in smaller firms	12
Work-to-family conflict and firm performance of women entrepreneurs: Roles of work-related emotional exhaustion and competitive hostility	12
Coopetition strategy as naturalised practice in a cluster of informal businesses	11
The impact of intellectual property types on the performance of business start-ups in the United States	11
Individual religious affiliation, religiosity and entrepreneurial intentions among students in four countries	11
Everyday social support processes: Household members’ instrumental and emotional support of entrepreneurs	11
Engaging symbiotic ecosystems to build community centred business models for the BoP: Evidence from small social enterprises in East Africa	10
A sequential relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, human resource management practices, collective organisational engagement and innovation performance of small and medium enterprises	10
Small and medium-sized enterprises response to Covid-19: The effect of external openness and procedural management	10
Explaining the entrepreneurial intentions of employees: The roles of societal norms, work-related creativity and personal resources	10
Why do small businesses seek support for managing people? Implications for theory and policy from an analysis of UK small business survey data	9
Entrepreneurial passion and venture profit: Examining the moderating effects of political connections and environmental dynamism in an emerging market	9
Linking SME international marketing agility to new technology adoption	9
Pace of innovation and speed of small and medium-sized enterprise international expansion	9
The emergence of team entrepreneurial passion from team helping: An affective events theory perspective	9
Impulsivity and entrepreneurial behaviour: Exploring an unreasoned pathway	8
Are founder-CEOs resilient to crises? The impact of founder-CEO succession on new firm survival	8
Legitimation work in sustainable entrepreneurship: Sustainability ventures’ journey towards the establishment of major partnerships	8
Business unpredictability, improvisation and business network commitment in small and medium-sized enterprise market entry	8
Contextualising rural entrepreneurship – A strong structuration perspective on gendered-local agency	8
Climbing to freedom on an impossible staircase: Exploring the emancipatory potential of becoming an entrepreneur-employer	7
The entrepreneurial gender gap: The role of in-group support and national embeddedness values in young women’s entrepreneurship	7
Book review: Research, innovation and entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia: Vision 2030	7
Entrepreneurial Leadership in Austrian Family SMEs: A Configurational Approach	6
The drivers of the post-entry internationalisation commitment of small and medium-sized enterprises	6
Mixed embeddedness and entrepreneurship beyond new venture creation: Opportunity tensions in the case of reregulated public markets	6
Immanent sensemaking by entrepreneurs and the interpretation of consumer context	6
How political connections affect entrepreneurial risk-taking in SMEs: A symmetric assessment and a configurational approach	6
‘In the night kitchen’: Gender, identity and artisanal work	5
In search of the next growth episode: How firms catalyse and sustain periods of high growth	5
The creation of collective enterprises for social impact: An agency perspective	5
The technological novelty of invention and speed to IPO of high-tech start-ups	5
Clever or foolish? Playing with the rivalry in leveraging sports sponsorships of SMEs	5
The influence of the positive affective trait on the willingness to act entrepreneurially: The mediating effect of opportunity evaluation	4
The hazards of delivering a public loan guarantee scheme: An analysis of borrower and lender characteristics	4
Contributing to the sustainable development goals as normative and instrumental acts: The role of Buddhist religious logics in family SMEs	4
Business failure and entrepreneur experiences of passion	4
Book Review: Networks, SMEs, and the university: The process of collaboration and open innovation	4
Psychological ownership development in new venture teams	4
Ecosystem pipelines: Collective action in entrepreneurial ecosystems	4
Relying on the engagement of others: A review of the governance choices facing social media platform start-ups	4
Juggling on a tightrope: Experiences of small and micro business managers responding to employees with mental health difficulties	4
Learning how to learn and then doing it all over again: The evolving learning modes of migrant entrepreneurs	4
UK government-backed start-up loans: Tackling disadvantage and credit rationing of new entrepreneurs	4
Influence of strategic HRM and entrepreneurial orientation on dynamic capabilities and innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises	4
Governance considerations and non-linear international scale-up behaviour among INVs	4
How women in the UAE enact entrepreneurial identities to build legitimacy	4
Activating collective agency in disrupted contexts: The social-cognitive context of ad hoc organising in a small and medium-sized enterprise	4

Starting up, not slowing down: Social entrepreneurial intentions in later working-life	3
Under which circumstances do family SMES achieve high growth? A behavioural perspective	3
Multipartner alliances among small firms promoted by external managers: Risk and governance mechanisms	3
Book review: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy	3
High growth episodes among R&D intensive firms: Evidence for Europe, US and Japan	3
Always on par? How small- and medium-sized enterprises manage coopetition strategies to innovate with large firms	3
Collective entrepreneurship in low-income communities: The importance of collective ownership, collective processes and collective goods	3
It’s all about identity: The identity constructions of LGBT entrepreneurs from an intersectionality perspective	3