OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 33. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	286
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	104
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	100
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	98
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	89
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	86
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	83
Innovation ambidexterity, resource configuration and firm growth: is smallness a liability or an asset?	80
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	70
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	65
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	63
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	62
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	55
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	53
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	51
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	48
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	48
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	47
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	45
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	45
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	45
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	43
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	42
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	40
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	39

A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	38
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	37
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	37
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	37
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	36
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	35
Small business economics journal editor of the year award	34
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	34