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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses	218
The early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business sales	111
Women’s entrepreneurship and culture: gender role expectations and identities, societal culture, and the entrepreneurial environment	96
The influence of ecosystems on the entrepreneurship process: a comparison across developed and developing economies	95
Macroeconomic lockdown and SMEs: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	77
Contextualizing small business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from small business owner-managers	70
When the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19	68
Small firms and the COVID-19 insolvency gap	66
The evolution of the global digital platform economy: 1971–2021	66
Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship	64
The determinants of bootstrap financing in crises: evidence from entrepreneurial ventures in the COVID-19 pandemic	63
Working from home: small business performance and the COVID-19 pandemic	54
Risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis	53
Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	51
Initial coin offerings, information disclosure, and fraud	49
Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic	46
Evolutionary entrepreneurial ecosystems: a research pathway	46
Signalling entrepreneurs’ credibility and project quality for crowdfunding success: cases from the Kickstarter and Indiegogo environments	40
Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements	39
The power of shared positivity: organizational psychological capital and firm performance during exogenous crises	38
Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed	37
Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review	36
Overcoming the liability of poorness: disadvantage, fragility, and the poverty entrepreneur	36
Does entrepreneurship fit her? Women entrepreneurs, gender-role orientation, and entrepreneurial culture	35
Does gender still matter? An examination of small business performance	34

Discrimination in lending? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program	34
Crowdfunding cultural and commercial entrepreneurs: an empirical study on motivation in distinct backer communities	34
SMEs’ line of credit under the COVID-19: evidence from China	34
Firm innovation and global value chain participation	34
Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program get disbursed to minority communities in the early stages of COVID-19?	34
Barriers to innovation and innovation performance: the mediating role of external knowledge search in emerging economies	33
The organizational architecture of entrepreneurial universities across the stages of entrepreneurship: a conceptual framework	33
Self-employment over the business cycle in the USA: a decomposition	32