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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses	197
How do banks interact with fintech startups?	112
The entrepreneurial finance markets of the future: a comparison of crowdfunding and initial coin offerings	105
The early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business sales	101
Unraveling the entrepreneurial mindset	95
The influence of ecosystems on the entrepreneurship process: a comparison across developed and developing economies	87
Women’s entrepreneurship and culture: gender role expectations and identities, societal culture, and the entrepreneurial environment	83
Macroeconomic lockdown and SMEs: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	74
The determinants of bootstrap financing in crises: evidence from entrepreneurial ventures in the COVID-19 pandemic	60
The evolution of the global digital platform economy: 1971–2021	59
When the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19	58
Small firms and the COVID-19 insolvency gap	57
Contextualizing small business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from small business owner-managers	56
Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship	51
Risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis	49
Why do startups pursue initial coin offerings (ICOs)? The role of economic drivers and social identity on funding choice	46
Formal and informal financing decisions of small businesses	44
Working from home: small business performance and the COVID-19 pandemic	44
Initial coin offerings, information disclosure, and fraud	44
Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic	41
Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	40
Evolutionary entrepreneurial ecosystems: a research pathway	37
The power of shared positivity: organizational psychological capital and firm performance during exogenous crises	36
Fin vs. tech: are trust and knowledge creation key ingredients in fintech start-up emergence and financing?	35
Signalling entrepreneurs’ credibility and project quality for crowdfunding success: cases from the Kickstarter and Indiegogo environments	34

Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed	33
Thirty years of Small Business Economics: a bibliometric overview	33
Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements	32
Crowdfunding cultural and commercial entrepreneurs: an empirical study on motivation in distinct backer communities	32
Discrimination in lending? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program	31
Does entrepreneurship fit her? Women entrepreneurs, gender-role orientation, and entrepreneurial culture	30
SMEs’ line of credit under the COVID-19: evidence from China	30
Export promotion programs, export capabilities, and risk management practices of internationalized SMEs	30
Firm innovation and global value chain participation	30
Overcoming the liability of poorness: disadvantage, fragility, and the poverty entrepreneur	30
Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program get disbursed to minority communities in the early stages of COVID-19?	30