Small Business Economics

Article	Citations
Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses	218
The early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business sales	111
Women’s entrepreneurship and culture: gender role expectations and identities, societal culture, and the entrepreneurial environment	96
The influence of ecosystems on the entrepreneurship process: a comparison across developed and developing economies	95
Macroeconomic lockdown and SMEs: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	77
Contextualizing small business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from small business owner-managers	70
When the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19	68
Small firms and the COVID-19 insolvency gap	66
The evolution of the global digital platform economy: 1971–2021	66
Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship	64
The determinants of bootstrap financing in crises: evidence from entrepreneurial ventures in the COVID-19 pandemic	63
Working from home: small business performance and the COVID-19 pandemic	54
Risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis	53
Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	51
Initial coin offerings, information disclosure, and fraud	49
Evolutionary entrepreneurial ecosystems: a research pathway	46
Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic	46
Signalling entrepreneurs’ credibility and project quality for crowdfunding success: cases from the Kickstarter and Indiegogo environments	40
Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements	39
The power of shared positivity: organizational psychological capital and firm performance during exogenous crises	38
Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed	37
Overcoming the liability of poorness: disadvantage, fragility, and the poverty entrepreneur	36
Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review	36
Does entrepreneurship fit her? Women entrepreneurs, gender-role orientation, and entrepreneurial culture	35
Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program get disbursed to minority communities in the early stages of COVID-19?	34

Does gender still matter? An examination of small business performance	34
Discrimination in lending? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program	34
Crowdfunding cultural and commercial entrepreneurs: an empirical study on motivation in distinct backer communities	34
SMEs’ line of credit under the COVID-19: evidence from China	34
Firm innovation and global value chain participation	34
Barriers to innovation and innovation performance: the mediating role of external knowledge search in emerging economies	33
The organizational architecture of entrepreneurial universities across the stages of entrepreneurship: a conceptual framework	33
Self-employment over the business cycle in the USA: a decomposition	32
Security token offerings	31
Women entrepreneurs’ progress in the venturing process: the impact of risk aversion and culture	31
Subjective value in entrepreneurship	30
Ecosystem dynamics: exploring the interplay within fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	30
ADHD symptoms, entrepreneurial passion, and entrepreneurial performance	29
The future of entrepreneurship: the few or the many?	28
Microfirms and innovation in the service sector	28
Determinants of financing constraints	27
Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	26
The mediating role of values in the relationship between religion and entrepreneurship	25
Innovation ambidexterity, resource configuration and firm growth: is smallness a liability or an asset?	25
Mapping SME productivity research: a systematic review of empirical evidence and future research agenda	24
Practice rather than preach: cultural practices and female social entrepreneurship	24
Recovery and exit of zombie firms in Portugal	23
Who benefits from SMEs’ radical innovations?—empirical evidence from German biotechnology	22
Does external R&D matter for family firm innovation? Evidence from the Italian manufacturing industry	22
Male and female entrepreneurs’ employment growth ambitions: the contingent role of regulatory efficiency	21
Experts in the crowd and their influence on herding in reward-based crowdfunding of cultural projects	21
Individualism, pro-market institutions, and national innovation	21
Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda	21
Business failure and institutions in entrepreneurship: a systematic review and research agenda	21
Entrepreneurship in the twenty-first century	20
Entrepreneurial learning in online communities	20
Different response paths to organizational resilience	20
Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family	20
Do Nonfamily Managers Enhance Family Firm Performance?	20
Depression among entrepreneurs: a scoping review	19
Recession and firm survival: is selection based on cleansing or skill accumulation?	19
The entrepreneurial financing of the immigrant entrepreneurs: a literature review	19
Productivity and firm exit during the COVID-19 crisis: cross-country evidence	19
Financial fragmentation and SMEs’ access to finance	19
Does the entrepreneurial state crowd out entrepreneurship?	19
Does patenting always help new firm survival? Understanding heterogeneity among exit routes	19
Procurement policy and SME participation in public purchasing	19
Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy	19
Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates	18
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies	18
Examining the cohesiveness and nestedness entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from British FinTechs	18
Soft and hard information in equity crowdfunding: network effects in the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance	18
Becoming an academic entrepreneur: how scientists develop an entrepreneurial identity	17
Entrepreneurial experiences of Syrian refugee women in Canada: a feminist grounded qualitative study	17
Nascent ventures’ green initiatives and angel investor judgments of legitimacy and funding	17

The Italian Start Up Act: a microeconometric program evaluation	17
Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective	17
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities: evidence from Brazil	17
What money cannot buy: a new approach to measure venture capital ability to add non-financial resources	17
Buddhist entrepreneurs, charitable behaviors, and social entrepreneurship: evidence from China	17
COVID-19 and the global venture capital landscape	17
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?	16
Social network research in the family business literature: a review and integration	16
Culture and gender in entrepreneurial teams: the effect on team processes and outcomes	16
One swallow does not make a summer: episodes and persistence in high growth	16
The perceived well-being and health costs of exiting self-employment	16
Does personality matter? Small business owners and modes of innovation	16
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy	16
Topic-based classification and identification of global trends for startup companies	15
Short-term financial constraints and SMEs’ investment decision: evidence from the working capital channel	15
Innovation and borrower discouragement in SMEs	15
Narratives in entrepreneurial ecosystems: drivers of effectuation versus causation	15
Identifying innovative opportunities in the entrepreneurship classroom: a new approach and empirical test	15
Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids	15
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	15
Historical roots of entrepreneurship in different regional contexts—the case of Poland	15
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an Asian perspective	15
Fostering regional innovation, entrepreneurship and growth through public procurement	15
The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit?	15
Gender, culture, and implicit theories about entrepreneurs: a cross-national investigation	14
Decision-making style in entrepreneurial finance and growth	14
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	14
CEOs’ religiosity and corporate green initiatives	14
Rethinking stabilization policies; Including supply-side measures and entrepreneurial processes	14
The growth of entrepreneurial human capital: origins and development of skill variety	14
Arts majors as entrepreneurs and innovators	14
Cognitive financial constraints and firm growth	14
Responding to unexpected crises: The roles of slack resources and entrepreneurial attitude to build resilience	14
What drives the valuation of entrepreneurial ventures? A map to navigate the literature and research directions	14
Does the adoption of emerging technologies improve technical efficiency? Evidence from Korean manufacturing SMEs	14
Public research and the quality of inventions: the role and impact of entrepreneurial universities and regional network embeddedness	14
Institutions, financial development, and small business survival: evidence from European emerging markets	14
In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand	14
Innovation drivers of external competitiveness in the great recession	13
Artificial intelligence and radical innovation: an opportunity for all companies?	13
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	13
The role of distinct ADHD symptoms for pre-entry entrepreneurial behavior: when intentions do not translate into action	13
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	13
Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms	13
Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups	13
Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross-countries study	13
Entrepreneurs’ actions and venture success: a structured literature review and suggestions for future research	13
Entrepreneur fund-seeking: toward a theory of funding fit in the era of equity crowdfunding	13
How gender stereotypes shape venture growth expectations	12
The salience of ethnic identity in entrepreneurship: an ethnic strategies of business action framework	12
Can corporate social responsibility mitigate the liability of newness? Evidence from China	12
Proximity and inter-firm corruption: A transaction cost approach	12
Natural disasters, entrepreneurship activity, and the moderating role of country governance	12
Same same, but different: capital structures in single family offices compared with private equity firms	12
Overcoming the ability-willingness paradox in small family firms’ collaborations	12
Graduates of venture creation programs – where do they apply their entrepreneurial competencies?	12
Liminal spaces: A review of the art in entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship in art	12
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	12
Motivational drivers to choose worker cooperatives as an entrepreneurial alternative: evidence from Spain	12
Regional entrepreneurship and innovation: historical roots and the impact on the growth of regions	12
Organizational capabilities and SME exports: the moderating role of external funding intentions and managerial capacity	11
Whom do nascent ventures search for? Resource scarcity and linkage formation activities during new product development processes	11
Entrepreneurial ecosystems, institutional quality, and the unexpected role of the sustainability orientation of entrepreneurs	11
Crowdfunding to overcome the immigrant entrepreneurs’ liability of outsidership: the role of internal social capital	11
Capacity constraints as a trigger for high growth	11
Does globalization affect perceptions about entrepreneurship? The role of economic development	11
Whirlwind model of entrepreneurial ecosystem path dependence	11
Corruption and formal-sector entrepreneurship in a middle-income country: spatial analysis of firm births in the Mexican states	11
Lockdown, employment adjustment, and financial frictions	10
CEO age, shareholder monitoring, and the organic growth of European firms	10
Bribery from a micro, demand-side perspective	10
Corporate taxes and high-quality entrepreneurship	10
Homophily and peer influence in early-stage new venture informal investment	10
Has previous loan rejection scarred firms from applying for loans during Covid-19?	10
Industrial policy, innovative entrepreneurship, and the human capital of founders	10
Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships	10
The interplay of context and entrepreneurship: the new frontier for contextualisation research	10
Are cooperative firms more agile? A contingency perspective on small and medium-sized enterprises in agglomerations and peripheral areas	10
Power and entrepreneurship	10
Formal and informal entrepreneurship: a cross-country policy perspective	10

Remittances, ethnic diversity, and entrepreneurship in developing countries	10
Achieving aging well through senior entrepreneurship: a three-country empirical study	9
Digital platforms and entrepreneurial support: a field experiment in online mentoring	9
Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality	9
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture	9
Do African resource rents promote rent-seeking at the expense of entrepreneurship?	9
Gender differences in business performance: evidence from Kenya and South Africa	9
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems	9
Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation	9
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and industry knowledge: does the winning region take all?	9
Banking stability and borrower discouragement: a multilevel analysis for SMEs in the EU-28	9
Social trust and new firm formation: a regional perspective	9
Designing for sustainable work during industrial startups—the case of a high-growth entrepreneurial firm	9
The well-being of women entrepreneurs: the role of gender inequality and gender roles	9
Openness to knowledge: does corporate social responsibility mediate the relationship between familiness and absorptive capacity?	9
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	9
Female entrepreneurs managing from home	9
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	9
The role of accelerator programmes on the capital structure of start-ups	9
The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields	9
The nascent ecology of social enterprise	9
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	9
Effective policy mixes in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a configurational analysis in China	9
Does democracy foster entrepreneurship?	9
Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures	8
Taking mental models seriously: institutions, entrepreneurship, and the mediating role of socio-cognitive traits	8
How much state ownership do hybrid firms need for better performance?	8
Is there a gender gap in equity-based crowdfunding?	8
Labor flows across firm size, age, and economic sector in Colombia vs. the United States	8
Artists as public sector intrapreneurs: an experiment	8
Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study	8
Digital economic activity and resilience for metros and small businesses during Covid-19	8
Heterogeneity and state dependence in firms’ access to bank credit	8
Bankruptcy laws, entrepreneurs’ socio-cognitions, and the pursuit of innovative opportunities	8
Ownership, governance, and internationalization in family firms: a replication and extension	8
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs	8
The contribution of board experience to opportunity development in high-tech ventures	8
The effects of social spending on entrepreneurship in developed nations	8
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs?	8
Is managerial discretion high in small firms? A theoretical framework	7
Entrepreneurial organizing activities and nascent venture performance	7
Exploring the contribution of micro firms to innovation: does competition matter?	7
Gendered regulations and SME performance in transition economies	7
Productivity growth over the business cycle: cleansing effects of recessions	7
Only the brave: improving self-rationing efficiency among discouraged Swiss SMEs	7
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	7
Committed to the venture or the family? A study of entrepreneurial persistence in distressed ventures	7
Gender bias in high stakes pitching: an NLP approach	7
The economic psychology of creating and venturing: a comparative behavioural portrait of artists and entrepreneurs	7
Employment effects of payroll tax subsidies	7
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms	7
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	7
Does team diversity really matter? The connection between networks, access to financial resources, and performance in the context of university spin-offs	7
Are large firms born or made? Evidence from developing countries	7
Three waves of immigrant entrepreneurship: a cross-national comparative study	7
The role of entrepreneurial absorptive capacity for knowledge spillover entrepreneurship	7
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related policies on new firm creation: an analysis of the Italian case	7
Creative and resourceful: How human, social, and psychological resources affect creative workers’ ability to rebound after failure	7
New and small firms in a modern working life: how do we make entrepreneurship healthy?	7
When does market hostility curtail competitive performance through diminished entrepreneurial efforts? Buffering effects of women entrepreneurs’ family business support	6
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	6
Managers’ work and behaviour patterns in profitable growth SMEs	6
A balancing act: Swedish occupational safety and health inspectors’ reflections on their bureaucratic role when supervising micro-enterprises	6
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
Distinguishing unpredictability from uncertainty in entrepreneurial action theory	6
The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs	6
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	6
Which firms drive employment growth in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from Kenya	6
Deconstructing involuntary financial exclusion: a focus on African SMEs	6
Founder affiliations: jobseeker reactions and impact on employee recruitment by start-up ventures	6
Artificial intelligence and firm growth — catch-up processes of SMEs through integrating AI into their knowledge bases	6
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	6
Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment	6
Bribery, on-the-job training, and firm performance	6
Radical innovation and its regional impact—a roadmap for future research	6
Arts and cultural entrepreneurship	5
The struggle of small firms to retain high-skill workers: job duration and the importance of knowledge intensity	5
Are SMEs less efficient? A Bayesian approach to addressing heterogeneity across firms	5
Being your own boss and bossing others: the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees	5
Does digitalization sufficiently empower female entrepreneurs? Evidence from their online gender identities and crowdfunding performance	5
Exploration-exploitation and acquisition likelihood in new ventures	5
Innovation in immigrant-owned firms	5
The economics of PIPEs, revisited	5
When do serial entrepreneurs found innovative ventures? Evidence from patent data	5
Are there wages from “sin”? Working conditions spillover from paying bribe in Vietnam	5
Women in the boardroom: a bottom–up approach to the trickle-down effect	5
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes	5
The identity of social impact venture capitalists: exploring social linguistic positioning and linguistic distinctiveness through text mining	5
Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship	5
The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective	5
The creation of digital innovative start-ups: the role of digital knowledge spillovers and digital skill endowment	5
Age effect on entry to entrepreneurship: embedded in life expectancy	5
Bank failures, local business dynamics, and government policy	5
High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth	5