OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 32. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation	113
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	113
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	87
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	68
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	64
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	61
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	57
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	56
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	56
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	55
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	53
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	53
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	51
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	50
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	49
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	49
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	45
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	42
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	40
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	39
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	39
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	38
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	37
Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research	36
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	35

ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	34
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	34
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	34
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	34
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	33
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	33
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size	32
The entrepreneurial creation of private institutions: exchange platform innovations and economic development	32
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	32
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	32
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	32