OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 36. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	161
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	95
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	95
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	92
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	90
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	87
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	84
Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation	83
Rooted in place and potential to change: how sense of place and openness to change influence community entrepreneurship intentions	76
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	74
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	60
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	59
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	59
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	55
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	54
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	52
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	52
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	51
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	50
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	50
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	50
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	48
The entrepreneurial creation of private institutions: exchange platform innovations and economic development	45
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	45
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	44

The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	43
Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research	42
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	42
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	41
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	41
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size	40
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	39
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	39
How humiliation reconstructs (or ruins) the entrepreneurial self	39
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	37
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	37
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	36
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	36
The adoption of artificial intelligence methods in entrepreneurship research: current state and pathways forward	36