OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Small Business Economics is 11. 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 2021-01-01 to 2025-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Do institutional dimensions matter at different stages of the entrepreneurial process? A multi-country study	244
The psychological strain of becoming self-employed: a longitudinal investigation of honeymoon-hangover effects	130
What conditions favor high-potential entrepreneurship? Unpacking the nexus between the industrial structure and startup typologies	128
Turmoil over the crisis: innovation capabilities and firm exit	93
Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets	88
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles	79
How scientists interpret and address funding criteria: value creation and undesirable side effects	78
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation	72
Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience	71
Beware the community type: engagement and growth in core vs. open online communities	65
Financial Access and Entrepreneurship by Gender: Evidence from Rural India	61
Questions worth asking for futures worth making: an effectual approach	59
Angel investors: the impact of regret from missed opportunities	59
Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program get disbursed to minority communities in the early stages of COVID-19?	57
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities: evidence from Brazil	56
Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	55
Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships	54
Gender productivity gap: does gender-equal ownership compensate for female entrepreneurs’ lack of prior industry experience?	47
The role of cognitive legitimacy in social entrepreneurship: a multilevel analysis	42
Preparing fertile ground: how does the quality of business environments affect MSE growth?	42
The role of distinct ADHD symptoms for pre-entry entrepreneurial behavior: when intentions do not translate into action	39
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	39
Historiography and the excavation of nascent business venturing	38
Assessing the impact of the EIB’s intermediated lending to SMEs during funding shocks	38
When do firms learn? Learning before versus after exporting	36

SME participation in research grant consortia—the emergence of coordinated attention in collaborative innovation	36
Financial and social sustainability in the European microfinance sector	35
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	35
You are only as strong as your weakest link: Founder and community social capital and start-up survival	35
The effects of social spending on entrepreneurship in developed nations	34
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	34
Does religion matter to angels? Exploring the influence of religion in entrepreneurial investor decision-making	33
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies	32
Coping with high decline: firms’ resilience to adversity	32
Colors and Entrepreneurial Activities: An Exploratory Study	29
From independent inventor to inventor entrepreneur: an application of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship	28
“All that glitters is not gold!”: The (Unexplored) Determinants of Equity Crowdfunding	26
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	26
Innovation ambidexterity, resource configuration and firm growth: is smallness a liability or an asset?	25
Entrepreneurial finance and regional ecosystem emergence	25
The evolution of the global digital platform economy: 1971–2021	23
Does competition from informal firms hurt job creation by formal manufacturing SMEs in developing and emerging countries? Evidence using firm-level survey data	23
Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation	23
Who benefits from SMEs’ radical innovations?—empirical evidence from German biotechnology	23
Embracing the “fail fast and learn fast” mindset: conceptualizing learning from failure in knowledge-intensive SMEs	23
Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs	23
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	23
A contingency model of employees’ turnover intent in young ventures	22
Heterogeneity and state dependence in firms’ access to bank credit	22
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	22
Different outcomes for different founders? Local organizational sponsorship and entrepreneurial finance	21
The protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: inside the black box	21
Enablers of exit through trade sale: the case of early-stage research-based spin-offs	21
Female self-employment: prevalence and performance effects of having a high-income spouse	21
Do exploration and exploitation in university research drive early-stage equity financing of university spin-offs?	21
Trans-contextual work: doing entrepreneurial contexts in the periphery	21
CEOs’ religiosity and corporate green initiatives	20
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes	20
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	19
Mapping SME productivity research: a systematic review of empirical evidence and future research agenda	19
Estimating the innovation benefits of first-mover and second-mover strategies when micro-businesses adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning	19
Local banking development and SME conservative financing policy. Does bank branch density matter?	19
SMEs’ line of credit under the COVID-19: evidence from China	19
Quid pro quota: a cross-country study on the impacts of immigration quotas on early-stage entrepreneurship	19
Subjective value in entrepreneurship	19
Missing links of knowledge spillover effects on firm intensity and regional development	19
Remittances, ethnic diversity, and entrepreneurship in developing countries	19
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	18
Graduates of venture creation programs – where do they apply their entrepreneurial competencies?	18
The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit?	18
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	18
Contextualizing small business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from small business owner-managers	18
Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy	18
COVID-19 and the global venture capital landscape	17
Soft and hard information in equity crowdfunding: network effects in the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance	17

Crowdfunding investors, intermediaries and risky entrepreneurs	17
Cultural diversity, social integration, and migrant entrepreneurship—evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey	17
The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance	17
Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements	17
Making, unmaking and remaking of context in entrepreneurial identity construction and experiences: a comparative analysis between Türkiye and the Netherlands	17
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems	17
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	16
Correction to: Entrepreneurship capital spillovers at the local level	16
Institutions, financial development, and small business survival: evidence from European emerging markets	16
Cognitive financial constraints and firm growth	16
Correction to: The global technology frontier: productivity growth and the relevance of Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship	16
Proximity and inter-firm corruption: A transaction cost approach	16
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	16
European SMEs’ growth: the role of market-based finance and public financial support	16
Correction to: Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs	15
The early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business sales	15
Informal institutions, transaction risk, and firm productivity in Myanmar	15
High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth	15
Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment	15
Is sustainable entrepreneurship profitable? ESG disclosure and the financial performance of SMEs	15
Exploration-exploitation and acquisition likelihood in new ventures	14
I believe I can fly: how target venture CEO overconfidence affects acquisition completion	14
Learning to ride the high growth “Rollercoaster”: the role of publicly funded business accelerator programmes	14
“Remembering David J Storey, a pioneer of the entrepreneurship field”	14
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	14
The contribution of board experience to opportunity development in high-tech ventures	14
Does local government corruption inhibit entrepreneurship?	14
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	14
Fostering regional innovation, entrepreneurship and growth through public procurement	14
Bank failures, local business dynamics, and government policy	14
Are there wages from “sin”? Working conditions spillover from paying bribe in Vietnam	13
Spatial variations in financial constraints of SMEs—evidence from firm-level estimates of investment-cash flow sensitivities in Sweden	13
The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields	13
The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries	13
Can corporate social responsibility mitigate the liability of newness? Evidence from China	13
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms	13
The dynamic impact of inter-firm network agreements	13
Persistence in firm growth: inference from conditional quantile transition matrices	13
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	13
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture	13
The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs	12
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	12
Entry-regulation and corruption: grease or sand in the wheels of entrepreneurship? Fresh evidence according to entrepreneurial motives	12
Being your own boss and bossing others: the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees	12
Public research and the quality of inventions: the role and impact of entrepreneurial universities and regional network embeddedness	12
Do Nonfamily Managers Enhance Family Firm Performance?	12
Innovation and borrower discouragement in SMEs	12
Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms	12
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	12
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	12
Stickiness of entrepreneurs: an exploratory study of migration in two mid-sized US cities	12
Financing constraints and SME growth: the suppression effect of cost-saving management innovations	11
Signalling entrepreneurs’ credibility and project quality for crowdfunding success: cases from the Kickstarter and Indiegogo environments	11
Is there a gender gap in equity-based crowdfunding?	11
A Quantum view of entrepreneurial opportunity: moving beyond the Discovery and Creation views	11
Does climate risk affect entrepreneurial growth aspirations? The moderating effects of gender and solo-founded ventures	11
Experts in the crowd and their influence on herding in reward-based crowdfunding of cultural projects	11
Recovery and exit of zombie firms in Portugal	11
Artificial intelligence and firm growth — catch-up processes of SMEs through integrating AI into their knowledge bases	11
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	11
The creation of digital innovative start-ups: the role of digital knowledge spillovers and digital skill endowment	11
Initial coin offerings, information disclosure, and fraud	11
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy	11
Unveiling the role of entrepreneurial teams in the equity crowdfunding journey	11
Motivational drivers to choose worker cooperatives as an entrepreneurial alternative: evidence from Spain	11