Small Business Economics

Papers
(The median citation count of Small Business Economics is 4. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination286
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect104
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries100
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage98
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation89
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation86
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework83
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 loans65
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review63
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China62
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity55
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?53
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny51
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa48
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession48
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs47
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 networking43
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival42
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms40
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs39
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity38
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance37
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa37
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation37
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information36
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems35
Small business economics journal editor of the year award34
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance34
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes31
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship31
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere30
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources30
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?30
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related policies on new firm creation: an analysis of the Italian case29
Digital equity and government support during COVID-1928
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?28
Governors’ Tenure and Venture Capital Firms’ Early-stage Investing: A Subnational Institutional Perspective28
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view28
The role of culture in family firms28
Re-entrepreneurial experience and learning during challenging times28
Entrepreneurial learning in online communities27
The impact of trade facilitation on African SMEs’ performance27
The times they are a‐changin’: how venture capital firms change their investment practices under the COVID-19 pandemic26
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order26
Correction to: Informal institutions, transaction risk, and firm productivity in Myanmar26
Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study26
Digital adoption and human capital upscaling: a regional study of the manufacturing sector26
From imposter fears to authenticity: a typology of women entrepreneurs25
Tech on the ROC: export threshold and technology adoption interacted25
Outside or inside the firm? The impact of debt financing on the exit routes of start-up firms25
Financing A Free-for-All: Crowdfunding Open-Source Software24
Effectuation and causation models: an integrative theoretical framework24
Save for a rainy day? How regional household savings constrain entrepreneurship after a natural disaster24
On why women-owned businesses take more time to secure microloans24
Accountants in family firms—a systematic literature review23
Ownership types, institutions, and the internationalization of emerging economy new ventures: evidence from Africa23
Driving change in higher education: the role of dynamic capabilities in strengthening universities’ third mission23
Gender bias in high stakes pitching: an NLP approach23
Labor market regulation and gendered entrepreneurship: a cross-national perspective23
Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation22
Who is lending to small and micro family business in China: evidence from CHFS data22
Why SMEs go to crowdfunding? The role of financial constraints and agency issues22
Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being22
Immigrant-native differences in long-term self-employment22
The Paycheck Protection Program and small business performance: Evidence from craft breweries22
Small grant subsidy application effects on productivity improvement: evidence from Japanese SMEs22
Security token offerings21
In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand21
Indirect effects of R&D subsidies: labor mobility as a channel for knowledge spillovers21
Gender differences in business performance: evidence from Kenya and South Africa21
Fostering SME survival through insolvency proceedings: a legitimacy perspective on retrenchment, age, and firm-specific distress21
Stagnating or flourishing? How entrepreneurial support organizations navigate constraints in nascent ecosystems21
Amundsen versus Scott: are growth paths related to firm performance?21
SMEs, R &D financing, and credit shocks20
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs?20
Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda20
Hybrid entrepreneurship and risk20
Family firm network strategies in regional clusters: evidence from Italy20
Preparing fertile ground: how does the quality of business environments affect MSE growth?19
Correction to: Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs19
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation19
Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research19
Gender productivity gap: does gender-equal ownership compensate for female entrepreneurs’ lack of prior industry experience?19
Questions worth asking for futures worth making: an effectual approach19
Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets19
Network-based principles of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a case study of a start-up network19
It is not because it is offered that it is used: an investigation into firm-level determinants of use intensity of buffering services in science parks19
Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation19
Missing links of knowledge spillover effects on firm intensity and regional development19
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies18
The protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: inside the black box18
Cultural diversity, social integration, and migrant entrepreneurship—evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey18
Truth, knowledge, and entrepreneurship theory: arguments for a rationalist scientific epistemology18
Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs18
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems18
Coping with high decline: firms’ resilience to adversity18
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes17
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities: evidence from Brazil17
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs17
How do successful exits impact regional development? Longitudinal evidence from European cities17
The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit?17
The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs16
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles16
Correction: Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures16
Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms15
Correction to: A second chance for failed entrepreneurs: a good idea?15
The role of accelerator programmes on the capital structure of start-ups15
The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises15
Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship15
The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses15
Correction: Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation15
Are there wages from “sin”? Working conditions spillover from paying bribe in Vietnam15
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms14
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture14
Correction to: The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms14
Digital innovation in family firms: The roles of non-family managers and transgenerational control intentions14
Exploring spatial network structures in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a network and clustering analysis of global venture funding flows14
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy14
Re-viewing entrepreneurial universities through alumni engagement14
Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda14
Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality14
Does digitalization sufficiently empower female entrepreneurs? Evidence from their online gender identities and crowdfunding performance14
Entrepreneurs’ impatience and digital technologies14
Publishing in Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal13
We are in this together: leading resource exchange between entrepreneurial ecosystems to strategically steer their development13
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs13
Advisors for micro-entrepreneurs: is one as good as another in accessing alternative finance?13
The Virus and the Citadel: exploring the performance impact of business group affiliation for small businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic13
Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms13
Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship13
Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates13
Importing knowledge from psychology: how it broadens the scope of entrepreneurship research—and helps it avoid the “multi-tower effect”13
Topic-based classification and identification of global trends for startup companies13
HGX: the anatomy of high growth exporters12
Effects of immigration on native entrepreneurship in the US: an analysis of self-employment over 1980–201812
“Exhale the old and inhale the new”: Comparing the impact of anti-corruption campaign on entrepreneurship and exiting markets in China12
How unemployment benefit duration shapes startup motivation and growth12
Community-level social capital and investment decisions in equity crowdfunding12
Exploring the contribution of micro firms to innovation: does competition matter?12
The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms12
Learning from different types of failure: evidence from non-severe and severe work accidents in SMEs12
Role conflict, entrepreneurial identity, and academic entrepreneurship: the effects of immigration status12
The effects of venture capital investments on industrial innovative opportunities and technological arbitrage opportunities11
Opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship: do linguistic structures matter?11
The cost of health insurance and entry into entrepreneurship11
Three waves of immigrant entrepreneurship: a cross-national comparative study11
The role of entrepreneurial absorptive capacity for knowledge spillover entrepreneurship11
Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross-countries study11
Passion and attractiveness on display: an examination of gender bias in crowdfunding11
Logics at play: How logics shape interactions across entrepreneurial ecosystems10
Does equity crowdfunding benefit ventures located in high unemployment regions?10
From poverty trap to commodity trap: entrepreneurship and well-being among the poor10
Sexual orientation, entrepreneurship, and firm survival10
The dynamic construction of an incubation context: a practice theory perspective10
Entrepreneurial organizing activities and nascent venture performance10
Hidden costs of entering self-employment: the spouse’s psychological well-being10
Competition and firm recovery post-COVID-1910
Token governance in initial coin offerings: Implications of token retention and resale restrictions for ICO success10
Financial statement audit and regulatory focus in equity crowdfunding decisions9
Per Davidsson: recipient of the 2023 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research9
Re-viewing the entrepreneurial university: strategic challenges and theory building opportunities9
What restricts SMEs from adopting sophisticated capital budgeting practices?9
The interplay of context and entrepreneurship: the new frontier for contextualisation research9
Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship9
What drives the valuation of entrepreneurial ventures? A map to navigate the literature and research directions9
Cultural diversity and innovative entrepreneurship9
Hiring family or non-family managers when non-economic (sustainability) goals matter? A multitask agency model9
Persistence of culture: how the entrepreneurial culture of origin contributes to migrant entrepreneurship9
Becoming an academic entrepreneur: how scientists develop an entrepreneurial identity9
Early-stage start-up hiring: the interplay between start-ups’ initial resources and innovation orientation9
Pushing the boundaries of entrepreneurial ecosystems: antecedents to international network activity of entrepreneurial firms9
Comprehensive and multifaceted perspectives on sustainability, urban studies, and entrepreneurship9
Bribery, on-the-job training, and firm performance9
Stuck in short-term, daily operations, or not?: Unraveling SME’s long-term orientation8
Embracing the “fail fast and learn fast” mindset: conceptualizing learning from failure in knowledge-intensive SMEs8
High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth8
Multinational enterprise spillover mechanisms in the genesis and evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems8
Does religion matter to angels? Exploring the influence of religion in entrepreneurial investor decision-making8
Creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem in a ‘knowledge desert’: the role of international connectivity and public institutional support8
Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience8
Heterogeneity and state dependence in firms’ access to bank credit8
Historiography and the excavation of nascent business venturing8
Crowdfunding investors, intermediaries and risky entrepreneurs8
Is sustainable entrepreneurship profitable? ESG disclosure and the financial performance of SMEs8
The role of cognitive legitimacy in social entrepreneurship: a multilevel analysis8
Colors and Entrepreneurial Activities: An Exploratory Study8
Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program get disbursed to minority communities in the early stages of COVID-19?8
Cognitive financial constraints and firm growth8
Soft and hard information in equity crowdfunding: network effects in the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance7
Culture and social entrepreneurship: the role of value-practice misalignment7
The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective7
Family firm heterogeneity and patenting. Revising the role of size and age7
Unveiling the role of entrepreneurial teams in the equity crowdfunding journey7
The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries7
Assessing the impact of the EIB’s intermediated lending to SMEs during funding shocks7
Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy7
Estimating the innovation benefits of first-mover and second-mover strategies when micro-businesses adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning7
Narcissism, workaholism, family support and new venture performance: a moderated mediation model7
Refugee entrepreneurship motivations in Sweden and Germany: a comparative case study7
Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective7
The dynamic impact of inter-firm network agreements7
Only the brave: improving self-rationing efficiency among discouraged Swiss SMEs7
Entrepreneurial finance and regional ecosystem emergence7
Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups7
“Status” concerns and self-employment transitions7
Artificial intelligence and firm growth — catch-up processes of SMEs through integrating AI into their knowledge bases7
Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban development7
Firm growth and financial constraints: evidence from a policy-based loan program6
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an Asian perspective6
The external effects of offshoring on job security in SMEs6
Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids6
Connectedness of entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from the mobility of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurs6
Getting off to a good start: emerging academic fields and early-stage equity financing6
Organizing transactions between entrepreneurs and human capital resources under Knightian uncertainty6
Keeping pace with the digital transformation — exploring the digital orientation of SMEs6
A fatigue model of social venturing6
The productivity shock in business services6
Evolution of micro and small enterprises’ work safety behavior in high-risk industries6
Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets for startups: search frictions, intermediation, and the efficiency of the ICO market6
Graduation of initial public offering firms from junior stock markets: evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange6
Redefining the entrepreneurial ecosystem in China from a network-based view: A review and proposal for future research6
Right of association and new business entry: country-level evidence from the market sector6
Different response paths to organizational resilience6
Correction to: Core business prospects and the management of internal corporate ventures6
Achieving aging well through senior entrepreneurship: a three-country empirical study6
Power and entrepreneurship6
The role of lead investors in equity crowdfunding campaigns with a secondary market5
Lockdown, employment adjustment, and financial frictions5
Government procurement contracts, external audit certification, and financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises5
How does government-backed finance affect SMEs’ crisis predictors?5
Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation5
Becoming global billionaires from mainland China: 2004–20185
Gender diversity at entrepreneurial firm IPOs: responding to changing societal norms5
Balancing act or two roads to travel: Evaluating the trade-offs between digitalization and net zero innovation in SMEs5
Rethinking stabilization policies; Including supply-side measures and entrepreneurial processes5
Is digitalization a source of innovation? Exploring the role of digital diffusion in SME innovation performance5
Small Business Property Tax Reductions and Firm Productivity5
Correction to: Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment5
Technological progress, financial constrains, and digital financial inclusion5
Do intangible assets help SMEs in underdeveloped markets gain access to external finance?—the case of Vietnam5
Exploring resource synergies: strategic and versatile resources in venture growth5
Achieving entrepreneurial growth despite resource and capability constraints: the role of service intermediaries5
Does patenting always help new firm survival? Understanding heterogeneity among exit routes4
Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review4
European SMEs’ growth: the role of market-based finance and public financial support4
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