OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 30. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	307
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	125
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	105
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	91
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	72
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	62
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	59
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	56
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	51
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	51
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	51
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	47
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	46
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	44
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	43
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	43
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	43
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	42
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	40
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	38
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	37
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	36
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	35
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	35
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	35

Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	33
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	32
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	31
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	31
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	30
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	30