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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses	231
The early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business sales	120
Women’s entrepreneurship and culture: gender role expectations and identities, societal culture, and the entrepreneurial environment	118
Macroeconomic lockdown and SMEs: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	88
Small firms and the COVID-19 insolvency gap	79
Contextualizing small business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from small business owner-managers	78
The evolution of the global digital platform economy: 1971–2021	74
When the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19	71
Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship	68
The determinants of bootstrap financing in crises: evidence from entrepreneurial ventures in the COVID-19 pandemic	65
Working from home: small business performance and the COVID-19 pandemic	59
Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	59
Initial coin offerings, information disclosure, and fraud	58
Risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis	55
Evolutionary entrepreneurial ecosystems: a research pathway	51
Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic	50
Signalling entrepreneurs’ credibility and project quality for crowdfunding success: cases from the Kickstarter and Indiegogo environments	45
Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements	43
Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review	42
The power of shared positivity: organizational psychological capital and firm performance during exogenous crises	42
Does entrepreneurship fit her? Women entrepreneurs, gender-role orientation, and entrepreneurial culture	39
Discrimination in lending? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program	39
Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed	39
Women entrepreneurs’ progress in the venturing process: the impact of risk aversion and culture	38
SMEs’ line of credit under the COVID-19: evidence from China	38

Crowdfunding cultural and commercial entrepreneurs: an empirical study on motivation in distinct backer communities	36
Barriers to innovation and innovation performance: the mediating role of external knowledge search in emerging economies	36
The organizational architecture of entrepreneurial universities across the stages of entrepreneurship: a conceptual framework	36
Security token offerings	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
Subjective value in entrepreneurship	33
Ecosystem dynamics: exploring the interplay within fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	33