Small Business Economics

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	132
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	108
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	104
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	76
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	76
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	61
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	61
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	58
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	53
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	51
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	50
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	49
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	48
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	46
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	46
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	46
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	42
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	42
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	41
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	39
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	39
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	37
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	36
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	35
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	35

Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	34
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	33
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	32
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	32
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	32
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size	31
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	31
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	31
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	31
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	30
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	30
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	29
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related policies on new firm creation: an analysis of the Italian case	29
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	29
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	29
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	28
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	28
The impact of trade facilitation on African SMEs’ performance	28
Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study	27
Re-entrepreneurial experience and learning during challenging times	27
Governors’ Tenure and Venture Capital Firms’ Early-stage Investing: A Subnational Institutional Perspective	27
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?	27
Digital equity and government support during COVID-19	27
The role of culture in family firms	27
Gender bias in high stakes pitching: an NLP approach	26
Financing A Free-for-All: Crowdfunding Open-Source Software	26
Why SMEs go to crowdfunding? The role of financial constraints and agency issues	26
The times they are a‐changin’: how venture capital firms change their investment practices under the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Tech on the ROC: export threshold and technology adoption interacted	26
Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being	25
Ownership types, institutions, and the internationalization of emerging economy new ventures: evidence from Africa	25
Who is lending to small and micro family business in China: evidence from CHFS data	25
Driving change in higher education: the role of dynamic capabilities in strengthening universities’ third mission	25
Digital adoption and human capital upscaling: a regional study of the manufacturing sector	24
Outside or inside the firm? The impact of debt financing on the exit routes of start-up firms	24
Effectuation and causation models: an integrative theoretical framework	24
Save for a rainy day? How regional household savings constrain entrepreneurship after a natural disaster	24
On why women-owned businesses take more time to secure microloans	23
Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation	23
Accountants in family firms—a systematic literature review	23
Labor market regulation and gendered entrepreneurship: a cross-national perspective	23
The Paycheck Protection Program and small business performance: Evidence from craft breweries	23
From imposter fears to authenticity: a typology of women entrepreneurs	23
Hybrid entrepreneurship and risk	22
Small grant subsidy application effects on productivity improvement: evidence from Japanese SMEs	22
The social benefit of being destructive: entrepreneurship and loan diversion	22
In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand	22
Stagnating or flourishing? How entrepreneurial support organizations navigate constraints in nascent ecosystems	22
Intellectual property among incorporated and unincorporated entrepreneurs	22
Gender differences in business performance: evidence from Kenya and South Africa	22

Family firm network strategies in regional clusters: evidence from Italy	21
SMEs, R &D financing, and credit shocks	21
Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	20
Indirect effects of R&D subsidies: labor mobility as a channel for knowledge spillovers	20
Network-based principles of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a case study of a start-up network	20
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs?	20
The protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: inside the black box	19
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation	19
Fostering SME survival through insolvency proceedings: a legitimacy perspective on retrenchment, age, and firm-specific distress	19
Coping with high decline: firms’ resilience to adversity	19
Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	19
Christina Guenther: a commemoration	19
Gender productivity gap: does gender-equal ownership compensate for female entrepreneurs’ lack of prior industry experience?	19
How do successful exits impact regional development? Longitudinal evidence from European cities	18
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles	18
Correction to: Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs	18
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 parks	18
Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs	18
Crisis as a catalyst: how the pre-existing values of entrepreneurs shape strategic crisis responses	18
Cultural diversity, social integration, and migrant entrepreneurship—evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey	17
Preparing fertile ground: how does the quality of business environments affect MSE growth?	17
Truth, knowledge, and entrepreneurship theory: arguments for a rationalist scientific epistemology	17
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies	17
Missing links of knowledge spillover effects on firm intensity and regional development	17
Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets	17
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	17
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems	17
Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation	17
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes	17
Correction: Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures	16
Correction to: A second chance for failed entrepreneurs: a good idea?	16
Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship	16
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture	16
Questions worth asking for futures worth making: an effectual approach	16
Correction: Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation	16
The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses	15
Targeted monetary policy, SMEs’ loan availability, and corporate investment: evidence from China	15
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy	15
Exploring spatial network structures in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a network and clustering analysis of global venture funding flows	15
Managing destructive entrepreneurship in place: formal and informal institutions for the achievement of regional economic growth	14
The role of accelerator programmes on the capital structure of start-ups	14
Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms	14
Correction to: The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms	14
Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality	14
Digital innovation in family firms: The roles of non-family managers and transgenerational control intentions	14
Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda	14
The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises	14
Importing knowledge from psychology: how it broadens the scope of entrepreneurship research—and helps it avoid the “multi-tower effect”	14
Does digitalization sufficiently empower female entrepreneurs? Evidence from their online gender identities and crowdfunding performance	14
The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs	14
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms	14
We are in this together: leading resource exchange between entrepreneurial ecosystems to strategically steer their development	14
A path-centric account of action-oriented entrepreneurship training	13
Entrepreneurs’ impatience and digital technologies	13
The Virus and the Citadel: exploring the performance impact of business group affiliation for small businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Re-viewing entrepreneurial universities through alumni engagement	13
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs	13
New venture creation: innovativeness, speed-to-breakeven, and revenue tradeoffs	13
Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms	13
“Exhale the old and inhale the new”: Comparing the impact of anti-corruption campaign on entrepreneurship and exiting markets in China	12
European funds and firm performance: evidence from a natural experiment	12
Advisors for micro-entrepreneurs: is one as good as another in accessing alternative finance?	12
The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms	12
ADHD and entrepreneurship: the role of perceived team conflict and gender on well-being	12
Learning from different types of failure: evidence from non-severe and severe work accidents in SMEs	12
How unemployment benefit duration shapes startup motivation and growth	12
Effects of immigration on native entrepreneurship in the US: an analysis of self-employment over 1980–2018	12
Topic-based classification and identification of global trends for startup companies	12
Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross-countries study	12
The cost of health insurance and entry into entrepreneurship	12
Community-level social capital and investment decisions in equity crowdfunding	12
HGX: the anatomy of high growth exporters	12
Passion and attractiveness on display: an examination of gender bias in crowdfunding	11
Exploring the contribution of micro firms to innovation: does competition matter?	11
Does equity crowdfunding benefit ventures located in high unemployment regions?	11
Financial statement audit and regulatory focus in equity crowdfunding decisions	11
Persistence of culture: how the entrepreneurial culture of origin contributes to migrant entrepreneurship	11
Three waves of immigrant entrepreneurship: a cross-national comparative study	11
Policy failure in public support for small business innovation: the case of innovation vouchers in China	11
Opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship: do linguistic structures matter?	11

Logics at play: How logics shape interactions across entrepreneurial ecosystems	11
Institutional enablers for sustainable entrepreneurship: a configurational analysis	11
Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship	11
The role of entrepreneurial absorptive capacity for knowledge spillover entrepreneurship	11
Role conflict, entrepreneurial identity, and academic entrepreneurship: the effects of immigration status	11
Token governance in initial coin offerings: Implications of token retention and resale restrictions for ICO success	11
What drives the valuation of entrepreneurial ventures? A map to navigate the literature and research directions	11
Sexual orientation, entrepreneurship, and firm survival	11
Competition and firm recovery post-COVID-19	10
Hidden costs of entering self-employment: the spouse’s psychological well-being	10
The dynamic construction of an incubation context: a practice theory perspective	10
Shaping and furthering core conversations in entrepreneurship research: Dean A. Shepherd recipient of the 2025 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	10
Entrepreneurial organizing activities and nascent venture performance	10
Comprehensive and multifaceted perspectives on sustainability, urban studies, and entrepreneurship	10
From poverty trap to commodity trap: entrepreneurship and well-being among the poor	10
The interplay of context and entrepreneurship: the new frontier for contextualisation research	9
Corruption, democracy, and entrepreneurship: the role of technology	9
What drives micro-entrepreneurs’ value-oriented innovative behavior in microfinance: an entrepreneurial resourcefulness perspective	9
Cultural diversity and innovative entrepreneurship	9
Peer support and value creation among women entrepreneurs	9
From flashlight to spotlight: Illuminating gray shadows that shape entrepreneurship’s dark sides	9
Pushing the boundaries of entrepreneurial ecosystems: antecedents to international network activity of entrepreneurial firms	9
Re-viewing the entrepreneurial university: strategic challenges and theory building opportunities	9
Grow, grow, grow? Stakeholder value creation by high-growth firms	9
Becoming an academic entrepreneur: how scientists develop an entrepreneurial identity	9
Per Davidsson: recipient of the 2023 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	9
What restricts SMEs from adopting sophisticated capital budgeting practices?	9
Bribery, on-the-job training, and firm performance	9
Is sustainable entrepreneurship profitable? ESG disclosure and the financial performance of SMEs	8
Early-stage start-up hiring: the interplay between start-ups’ initial resources and innovation orientation	8
Multinational enterprise spillover mechanisms in the genesis and evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems	8
Embracing the “fail fast and learn fast” mindset: conceptualizing learning from failure in knowledge-intensive SMEs	8
High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth	8
Crowdfunding investors, intermediaries and risky entrepreneurs	8
Stuck in short-term, daily operations, or not?: Unraveling SME’s long-term orientation	8
Colors and Entrepreneurial Activities: An Exploratory Study	8
Heterogeneity and state dependence in firms’ access to bank credit	8
Does religion matter to angels? Exploring the influence of religion in entrepreneurial investor decision-making	8
Hiring family or non-family managers when non-economic (sustainability) goals matter? A multitask agency model	8
Creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem in a ‘knowledge desert’: the role of international connectivity and public institutional support	8
Entrepreneurial finance and regional ecosystem emergence	8
The role of cognitive legitimacy in social entrepreneurship: a multilevel analysis	7
Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience	7
From ambition to evidence: a practical tool for startup impact assessment	7
Culture and social entrepreneurship: the role of value-practice misalignment	7
The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries	7
Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban development	7
Estimating the innovation benefits of first-mover and second-mover strategies when micro-businesses adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning	7
Firm dynamics and productivity by age—evidence from Ireland	7
Agencing entrepreneurial ecosystems for sustainability: A systematic review to rethink values, transformation, and boundaries	7
Artificial intelligence and firm growth — catch-up processes of SMEs through integrating AI into their knowledge bases	7
The dynamic impact of inter-firm network agreements	7
Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups	7
Historiography and the excavation of nascent business venturing	7
Assessing the impact of the EIB’s intermediated lending to SMEs during funding shocks	7
Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy	7
Sustainability orientation of academic spinoffs: does it pay?	7
“Status” concerns and self-employment transitions	7
Unveiling the role of entrepreneurial teams in the equity crowdfunding journey	7
Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective	7
The productivity shock in business services	6
Family firm heterogeneity and patenting. Revising the role of size and age	6
The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective	6
Graduation of initial public offering firms from junior stock markets: evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange	6
Values and entrepreneurship in the sustainable society: toward a multilevel understanding of entrepreneurial value practices	6
Power and entrepreneurship	6
The growth paradox: mental health perceptions, ecosystem support, and growth aspirations of ADHD entrepreneurs	6
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an Asian perspective	6
Refugee entrepreneurship motivations in Sweden and Germany: a comparative case study	6
Firm growth and financial constraints: evidence from a policy-based loan program	6
Narcissism, workaholism, family support and new venture performance: a moderated mediation model	6
A fatigue model of social venturing	6
Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids	6
Keeping pace with the digital transformation — exploring the digital orientation of SMEs	6
Organizing transactions between entrepreneurs and human capital resources under Knightian uncertainty	6
Right of association and new business entry: country-level evidence from the market sector	6
The external effects of offshoring on job security in SMEs	6
Different response paths to organizational resilience	6
Redefining the entrepreneurial ecosystem in China from a network-based view: A review and proposal for future research	6
Connectedness of entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from the mobility of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurs	5
Becoming global billionaires from mainland China: 2004–2018	5
Correction to: Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment	5
Government procurement contracts, external audit certification, and financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises	5
Planning ahead or dragging one’s feet? Organizational structure and high-growth events	5
Is digitalization a source of innovation? Exploring the role of digital diffusion in SME innovation performance	5
Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets for startups: search frictions, intermediation, and the efficiency of the ICO market	5
How does government-backed finance affect SMEs’ crisis predictors?	5
Intensive personal mentoring: accelerators’ secret sauce	5
Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation	5
Evolution of micro and small enterprises’ work safety behavior in high-risk industries	5
Achieving aging well through senior entrepreneurship: a three-country empirical study	5
Gender diversity at entrepreneurial firm IPOs: responding to changing societal norms	5
Achieving entrepreneurial growth despite resource and capability constraints: the role of service intermediaries	5
Small Business Property Tax Reductions and Firm Productivity	5
Balancing act or two roads to travel: Evaluating the trade-offs between digitalization and net zero innovation in SMEs	5