OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Small Business Economics is 12. 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.)

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	286
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	104
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	100
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	98
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	89
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	86
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	83
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 loans	65
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	63
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	62
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	55
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	53
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	51
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	48
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	48
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	47
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	45
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
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	43
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	42
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	40
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	39

A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	38
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	37
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	37
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	37
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	36
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	35
Small business economics journal editor of the year award	34
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	34
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	31
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	31
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	30
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	30
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	30
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related policies on new firm creation: an analysis of the Italian case	29
Governors’ Tenure and Venture Capital Firms’ Early-stage Investing: A Subnational Institutional Perspective	28
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	28
The role of culture in family firms	28
Re-entrepreneurial experience and learning during challenging times	28
Digital equity and government support during COVID-19	28
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?	28
The impact of trade facilitation on African SMEs’ performance	27
Entrepreneurial learning in online communities	27
Correction to: Informal institutions, transaction risk, and firm productivity in Myanmar	26
Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study	26
Digital adoption and human capital upscaling: a regional study of the manufacturing sector	26
The times they are a‐changin’: how venture capital firms change their investment practices under the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	26
Outside or inside the firm? The impact of debt financing on the exit routes of start-up firms	25
From imposter fears to authenticity: a typology of women entrepreneurs	25
Tech on the ROC: export threshold and technology adoption interacted	25
On why women-owned businesses take more time to secure microloans	24
Financing A Free-for-All: Crowdfunding Open-Source Software	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
Gender bias in high stakes pitching: an NLP approach	23
Labor market regulation and gendered entrepreneurship: a cross-national perspective	23
Accountants in family firms—a systematic literature review	23
Ownership types, institutions, and the internationalization of emerging economy new ventures: evidence from Africa	23
Driving change in higher education: the role of dynamic capabilities in strengthening universities’ third mission	23
The Paycheck Protection Program and small business performance: Evidence from craft breweries	22
Small grant subsidy application effects on productivity improvement: evidence from Japanese SMEs	22
Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation	22
Who is lending to small and micro family business in China: evidence from CHFS data	22
Why SMEs go to crowdfunding? The role of financial constraints and agency issues	22
Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being	22
Immigrant-native differences in long-term self-employment	22
Indirect effects of R&D subsidies: labor mobility as a channel for knowledge spillovers	21
Gender differences in business performance: evidence from Kenya and South Africa	21
Fostering SME survival through insolvency proceedings: a legitimacy perspective on retrenchment, age, and firm-specific distress	21
Stagnating or flourishing? How entrepreneurial support organizations navigate constraints in nascent ecosystems	21

Amundsen versus Scott: are growth paths related to firm performance?	21
Security token offerings	21
In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand	21
Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	20
Hybrid entrepreneurship and risk	20
Family firm network strategies in regional clusters: evidence from Italy	20
SMEs, R &D financing, and credit shocks	20
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs?	20
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 approach	19
Missing links of knowledge spillover effects on firm intensity and regional development	19
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	19
Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation	19
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation	19
Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	19
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 entrepreneurs	19
Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets	19
Network-based principles of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a case study of a start-up network	19
Truth, knowledge, and entrepreneurship theory: arguments for a rationalist scientific epistemology	18
Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs	18
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems	18
Coping with high decline: firms’ resilience to adversity	18
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies	18
The protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: inside the black box	18
Cultural diversity, social integration, and migrant entrepreneurship—evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey	18
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	17
How do successful exits impact regional development? Longitudinal evidence from European cities	17
The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit?	17
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes	17
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities: evidence from Brazil	17
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles	16
Correction: Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures	16
The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs	16
The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises	15
Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship	15
The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses	15
Correction: Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation	15
Are there wages from “sin”? Working conditions spillover from paying bribe in Vietnam	15
Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms	15
Correction to: A second chance for failed entrepreneurs: a good idea?	15
The role of accelerator programmes on the capital structure of start-ups	15
Exploring spatial network structures in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a network and clustering analysis of global venture funding flows	14
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy	14
Re-viewing entrepreneurial universities through alumni engagement	14
Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda	14
Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality	14
Does digitalization sufficiently empower female entrepreneurs? Evidence from their online gender identities and crowdfunding performance	14
Entrepreneurs’ impatience and digital technologies	14
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms	14
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture	14
Correction to: The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms	14
Digital innovation in family firms: The roles of non-family managers and transgenerational control intentions	14
The Virus and the Citadel: exploring the performance impact of business group affiliation for small businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms	13
Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship	13
Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates	13
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 companies	13
Publishing in Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal	13
We are in this together: leading resource exchange between entrepreneurial ecosystems to strategically steer their development	13
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs	13
Advisors for micro-entrepreneurs: is one as good as another in accessing alternative finance?	13
How unemployment benefit duration shapes startup motivation and growth	12
Community-level social capital and investment decisions in equity crowdfunding	12
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 firms	12
Learning from different types of failure: evidence from non-severe and severe work accidents in SMEs	12
Role conflict, entrepreneurial identity, and academic entrepreneurship: the effects of immigration status	12
HGX: the anatomy of high growth exporters	12
Effects of immigration on native entrepreneurship in the US: an analysis of self-employment over 1980–2018	12
“Exhale the old and inhale the new”: Comparing the impact of anti-corruption campaign on entrepreneurship and exiting markets in China	12