Small Business Economics

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

Thirty years of Small Business Economics: a bibliometric overview	33
Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed	33
Crowdfunding cultural and commercial entrepreneurs: an empirical study on motivation in distinct backer communities	32
Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements	32
Discrimination in lending? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program	31
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
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
Does gender still matter? An examination of small business performance	29
Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review	29
Security token offerings	28
Subjective value in entrepreneurship	28
The organizational architecture of entrepreneurial universities across the stages of entrepreneurship: a conceptual framework	27
Women entrepreneurs’ progress in the venturing process: the impact of risk aversion and culture	27
Microfirms and innovation in the service sector	26
ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance	26
Determinants of financing constraints	25
Barriers to innovation and innovation performance: the mediating role of external knowledge search in emerging economies	25
The impact of effectuation, causation, and resources on new venture performance: novice versus expert entrepreneurs	24
The mediating role of values in the relationship between religion and entrepreneurship	24
Self-employment over the business cycle in the USA: a decomposition	23
Ecosystem dynamics: exploring the interplay within fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	23
Practice rather than preach: cultural practices and female social entrepreneurship	22
Mapping SME productivity research: a systematic review of empirical evidence and future research agenda	22
The future of entrepreneurship: the few or the many?	21
Innovation ambidexterity, resource configuration and firm growth: is smallness a liability or an asset?	20
Who benefits from SMEs’ radical innovations?—empirical evidence from German biotechnology	20
Recovery and exit of zombie firms in Portugal	20
Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	19
Entrepreneurial learning in online communities	19
Recession and firm survival: is selection based on cleansing or skill accumulation?	19
Firm size and growth barriers: a data-driven approach	19
Does external R&D matter for family firm innovation? Evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry	19
Business failure and institutions in entrepreneurship: a systematic review and research agenda	18
Does the entrepreneurial state crowd out entrepreneurship?	18
Individualism, pro-market institutions, and national innovation	18
Different response paths to organizational resilience	18
Do Nonfamily Managers Enhance Family Firm Performance?	18
Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family	18
Experts in the crowd and their influence on herding in reward-based crowdfunding of cultural projects	18
Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda	18
Depression among entrepreneurs: a scoping review	17
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities: evidence from Brazil	17
The Italian Start Up Act: a microeconometric program evaluation	17
Entrepreneurship in the twenty-first century	17
Does patenting always help new firm survival? Understanding heterogeneity among exit routes	16
Impact evaluation of business development grants on SME performance	16

Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective	15
Soft and hard information in equity crowdfunding: network effects in the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance	15
Life-cycle factors and entrepreneurship: evidence from rural China	15
Procurement policy and SME participation in public purchasing	15
Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates	15
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies	15
What money cannot buy: a new approach to measure venture capital ability to add non-financial resources	15
Former Communist party membership and present-day entrepreneurship	15
One swallow does not make a summer: episodes and persistence in high growth	15
The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment	15
Financial fragmentation and SMEs’ access to finance	15
Culture and gender in entrepreneurial teams: the effect on team processes and outcomes	15
The entrepreneurial financing of the immigrant entrepreneurs: a literature review	15
Entrepreneurial experiences of Syrian refugee women in Canada: a feminist grounded qualitative study	15
Becoming an academic entrepreneur: how scientists develop an entrepreneurial identity	14
Fostering regional innovation, entrepreneurship and growth through public procurement	14
Short-term financial constraints and SMEs’ investment decision: evidence from the working capital channel	14
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	14
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an Asian perspective	14
Rethinking stabilization policies; Including supply-side measures and entrepreneurial processes	13
Buddhist entrepreneurs, charitable behaviors, and social entrepreneurship: evidence from China	13
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy	13
A decade of research on the genetics of entrepreneurship: a review and view ahead	13
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?	13
Does the adoption of emerging technologies improve technical efficiency? Evidence from Korean manufacturing SMEs	13
Institutions, financial development, and small business survival: evidence from European emerging markets	13
Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy	13
Historical roots of entrepreneurship in different regional contexts—the case of Poland	13
Topic-based classification and identification of global trends for startup companies	13
Identifying innovative opportunities in the entrepreneurship classroom: a new approach and empirical test	13
The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit?	13
COVID-19 and the global venture capital landscape	13
The growth of entrepreneurial human capital: origins and development of skill variety	12
Entrepreneur fund-seeking: toward a theory of funding fit in the era of equity crowdfunding	12
Nascent ventures’ green initiatives and angel investor judgments of legitimacy and funding	12
Male and female entrepreneurs’ employment growth ambitions: the contingent role of regulatory efficiency	12
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	12
Public research and the quality of inventions: the role and impact of entrepreneurial universities and regional network embeddedness	12
The role of distinct ADHD symptoms for pre-entry entrepreneurial behavior: when intentions do not translate into action	12
In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand	12
Examining the cohesiveness and nestedness entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from British FinTechs	12
Arts majors as entrepreneurs and innovators	12
Regional entrepreneurship and innovation: historical roots and the impact on the growth of regions	12
Narratives in entrepreneurial ecosystems: drivers of effectuation versus causation	12
Productivity and firm exit during the COVID-19 crisis: cross-country evidence	11
Gender, culture, and implicit theories about entrepreneurs: a cross-national investigation	11
Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms	11
Whom do nascent ventures search for? Resource scarcity and linkage formation activities during new product development processes	11
Innovation and borrower discouragement in SMEs	11
Corruption and formal-sector entrepreneurship in a middle-income country: spatial analysis of firm births in the Mexican states	11
Does personality matter? Small business owners and modes of innovation	11
Targeted monetary policy and financing constraints of Chinese small businesses	11
Decision-making style in entrepreneurial finance and growth	11
The smart contract revolution: a solution for the holdup problem?	11
Motivational drivers to choose worker cooperatives as an entrepreneurial alternative: evidence from Spain	11
How gender stereotypes shape venture growth expectations	11
Estimating the uncertainty–R&D investment relationship and its interactions with firm size	11
The salience of ethnic identity in entrepreneurship: an ethnic strategies of business action framework	11
Capacity constraints as a trigger for high growth	11
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	11
Cognitive financial constraints and firm growth	11
Organizational capabilities and SME exports: the moderating role of external funding intentions and managerial capacity	10
Social network research in the family business literature: a review and integration	10
Liminal spaces: A review of the art in entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship in art	10
Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross-countries study	10
Proximity and inter-firm corruption: A transaction cost approach	10
Does globalization affect perceptions about entrepreneurship? The role of economic development	10
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	10
Designing for sustainable work during industrial startups—the case of a high-growth entrepreneurial firm	9
Remittances, ethnic diversity, and entrepreneurship in developing countries	9
Natural disasters, entrepreneurship activity, and the moderating role of country governance	9
Are cooperative firms more agile? A contingency perspective on small and medium-sized enterprises in agglomerations and peripheral areas	9
Has previous loan rejection scarred firms from applying for loans during Covid-19?	9
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture	9
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	9
The impact of the third sector of R&D on the innovative performance of entrepreneurial firms	9
Growth paths and routes to exit: 'shadow of death' effects for new firms in Japan	9
Bribery from a micro, demand-side perspective	9
Do African resource rents promote rent-seeking at the expense of entrepreneurship?	9
CEOs’ religiosity and corporate green initiatives	9

Lockdown, employment adjustment, and financial frictions	9
Innovation drivers of external competitiveness in the great recession	9
Power and entrepreneurship	9
Gender differences in business performance: evidence from Kenya and South Africa	8
Entrepreneurial homeworkers	8
Crowdfunding to overcome the immigrant entrepreneurs’ liability of outsidership: the role of internal social capital	8
Same same, but different: capital structures in single family offices compared with private equity firms	8
Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids	8
The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields	8
Does democracy foster entrepreneurship?	8
Labor flows across firm size, age, and economic sector in Colombia vs. the United States	8
Female entrepreneurs managing from home	8
Industrial policy, innovative entrepreneurship, and the human capital of founders	8
Corporate taxes and high-quality entrepreneurship	8
Going public with public money	8
The nascent ecology of social enterprise	8
Homophily and peer influence in early-stage new venture informal investment	8
What drives the valuation of entrepreneurial ventures? A map to navigate the literature and research directions	8
Entrepreneurs’ actions and venture success: a structured literature review and suggestions for future research	8
Digital platforms and entrepreneurial support: a field experiment in online mentoring	8
Social trust and new firm formation: a regional perspective	8
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	8
CEO age, shareholder monitoring, and the organic growth of European firms	7
Banking stability and borrower discouragement: a multilevel analysis for SMEs in the EU-28	7
The contribution of board experience to opportunity development in high-tech ventures	7
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	7
Heterogeneity and state dependence in firms’ access to bank credit	7
Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships	7
Responding to unexpected crises: The roles of slack resources and entrepreneurial attitude to build resilience	7
Gendered regulations and SME performance in transition economies	7
Ownership, governance, and internationalization in family firms: a replication and extension	7
Artists as public sector intrapreneurs: an experiment	7
How much state ownership do hybrid firms need for better performance?	7
Is there a gender gap in equity-based crowdfunding?	7
Can corporate social responsibility mitigate the liability of newness? Evidence from China	7
Does team diversity really matter? The connection between networks, access to financial resources, and performance in the context of university spin-offs	7
Committed to the venture or the family? A study of entrepreneurial persistence in distressed ventures	7
Exploring the contribution of micro firms to innovation: does competition matter?	7
The economic psychology of creating and venturing: a comparative behavioural portrait of artists and entrepreneurs	7
Artificial intelligence and radical innovation: an opportunity for all companies?	7
Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups	7
Overcoming the ability-willingness paradox in small family firms’ collaborations	7
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	7
Graduates of venture creation programs – where do they apply their entrepreneurial competencies?	7
Openness to knowledge: does corporate social responsibility mediate the relationship between familiness and absorptive capacity?	7
The interplay of context and entrepreneurship: the new frontier for contextualisation research	7
Bankruptcy laws, entrepreneurs’ socio-cognitions, and the pursuit of innovative opportunities	7
The elusive quest for high-growth firms in Africa: when other metrics of performance say nothing	6
Analyzing the returns to entrepreneurship by a modified Lazear model	6
Founder affiliations: jobseeker reactions and impact on employee recruitment by start-up ventures	6
Formal and informal entrepreneurship: a cross-country policy perspective	6
Only the brave: improving self-rationing efficiency among discouraged Swiss SMEs	6
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms	6
The effects of social spending on entrepreneurship in developed nations	6
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs?	6
Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation	6
Employee compensation and new venture performance: does benefit type matter?	6
The entrepreneurial gains from market integration in the new EU member states	6
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	6
The role of accelerator programmes on the capital structure of start-ups	6
Informality, regulation and productivity: do small firms escape EPL through shadow employment?	6
Managers’ work and behaviour patterns in profitable growth SMEs	6
Entrepreneurial ecosystems, institutional quality, and the unexpected role of the sustainability orientation of entrepreneurs	6
Entrepreneurial organizing activities and nascent venture performance	6
Achieving aging well through senior entrepreneurship: a three-country empirical study	6
Productivity growth over the business cycle: cleansing effects of recessions	6
Management turnover, ownership change, and post-bankruptcy failure of small businesses	6
Creative and resourceful: How human, social, and psychological resources affect creative workers’ ability to rebound after failure	6
New and small firms in a modern working life: how do we make entrepreneurship healthy?	6
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	5
Innovation in immigrant-owned firms	5
The role of entrepreneurial absorptive capacity for knowledge spillover entrepreneurship	5
The struggle of small firms to retain high-skill workers: job duration and the importance of knowledge intensity	5
Whirlwind model of entrepreneurial ecosystem path dependence	5
When does market hostility curtail competitive performance through diminished entrepreneurial efforts? Buffering effects of women entrepreneurs’ family business support	5
Age effect on entry to entrepreneurship: embedded in life expectancy	5
Digital economic activity and resilience for metros and small businesses during Covid-19	5
High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth	5
Three waves of immigrant entrepreneurship: a cross-national comparative study	5
Effects of self-employment on hospitalizations: instrumental variables analysis of social security data	5
The economics of PIPEs, revisited	5
Employment effects of payroll tax subsidies	5
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and industry knowledge: does the winning region take all?	5
When do serial entrepreneurs found innovative ventures? Evidence from patent data	5
Where do we go? VC firm heterogeneity and the exit routes of newly listed high-tech firms	5
Bank failures, local business dynamics, and government policy	5
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes	5
Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures	5
Radical innovation and its regional impact—a roadmap for future research	5
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs	5
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	5
Are SMEs less efficient? A Bayesian approach to addressing heterogeneity across firms	5
The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective	5
Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality	5
Exploration-exploitation and acquisition likelihood in new ventures	5