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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on entrepreneurship and small businesses	231
The early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business sales	120
Women’s entrepreneurship and culture: gender role expectations and identities, societal culture, and the entrepreneurial environment	118
Macroeconomic lockdown and SMEs: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	88
Small firms and the COVID-19 insolvency gap	79
Contextualizing small business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from small business owner-managers	78
The evolution of the global digital platform economy: 1971–2021	74
When the rainy day is the worst hurricane ever: the effects of governmental policies on SMEs during COVID-19	71
Necessity or opportunity? Government size, tax policy, corruption, and implications for entrepreneurship	68
The determinants of bootstrap financing in crises: evidence from entrepreneurial ventures in the COVID-19 pandemic	65
Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	59
Working from home: small business performance and the COVID-19 pandemic	59
Initial coin offerings, information disclosure, and fraud	58
Risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis	55
Evolutionary entrepreneurial ecosystems: a research pathway	51
Digital affordances: how entrepreneurs access support in online communities during the COVID-19 pandemic	50
Signalling entrepreneurs’ credibility and project quality for crowdfunding success: cases from the Kickstarter and Indiegogo environments	45
Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements	43
The power of shared positivity: organizational psychological capital and firm performance during exogenous crises	42
Understanding firm exit: a systematic literature review	42
Discrimination in lending? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program	39
Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed	39
Does entrepreneurship fit her? Women entrepreneurs, gender-role orientation, and entrepreneurial culture	39
SMEs’ line of credit under the COVID-19: evidence from China	38
Women entrepreneurs’ progress in the venturing process: the impact of risk aversion and culture	38

Barriers to innovation and innovation performance: the mediating role of external knowledge search in emerging economies	36
The organizational architecture of entrepreneurial universities across the stages of entrepreneurship: a conceptual framework	36
Crowdfunding cultural and commercial entrepreneurs: an empirical study on motivation in distinct backer communities	36
Security token offerings	34
Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program get disbursed to minority communities in the early stages of COVID-19?	34
Ecosystem dynamics: exploring the interplay within fintech entrepreneurial ecosystems	33
Subjective value in entrepreneurship	33
Determinants of financing constraints	31
The future of entrepreneurship: the few or the many?	30
Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	29
The mediating role of values in the relationship between religion and entrepreneurship	29
Productivity and firm exit during the COVID-19 crisis: cross-country evidence	28
Innovation ambidexterity, resource configuration and firm growth: is smallness a liability or an asset?	28
Mapping SME productivity research: a systematic review of empirical evidence and future research agenda	26
Practice rather than preach: cultural practices and female social entrepreneurship	26
Different response paths to organizational resilience	26
Recovery and exit of zombie firms in Portugal	25
Entrepreneurship in the twenty-first century	23
Examining the cohesiveness and nestedness entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from British FinTechs	23
Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda	23
Business failure and institutions in entrepreneurship: a systematic review and research agenda	23
Do Nonfamily Managers Enhance Family Firm Performance?	23
Responding to unexpected crises: The roles of slack resources and entrepreneurial attitude to build resilience	23
Becoming an academic entrepreneur: how scientists develop an entrepreneurial identity	22
The entrepreneurial financing of the immigrant entrepreneurs: a literature review	22
Disentangling succession and entrepreneurship gender gaps: gender norms, culture, and family	22
Who benefits from SMEs’ radical innovations?—empirical evidence from German biotechnology	22
Entrepreneurial learning in online communities	22
Mind the gender gap: the impact of university education on the entrepreneurial entry of female and male STEM graduates	21
Does the entrepreneurial state crowd out entrepreneurship?	21
Artificial intelligence and radical innovation: an opportunity for all companies?	21
Experts in the crowd and their influence on herding in reward-based crowdfunding of cultural projects	21
Does patenting always help new firm survival? Understanding heterogeneity among exit routes	20
Procurement policy and SME participation in public purchasing	20
Buddhist entrepreneurs, charitable behaviors, and social entrepreneurship: evidence from China	19
The well-being of women entrepreneurs: the role of gender inequality and gender roles	19
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	19
The Italian Start Up Act: a microeconometric program evaluation	19
Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids	19
Social network research in the family business literature: a review and integration	19
Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy	19
Does personality matter? Small business owners and modes of innovation	19
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy	19
Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective	19
COVID-19 and the global venture capital landscape	19
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?	18
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	18
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities: evidence from Brazil	18
Does the adoption of emerging technologies improve technical efficiency? Evidence from Korean manufacturing SMEs	18
Soft and hard information in equity crowdfunding: network effects in the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance	18

Narratives in entrepreneurial ecosystems: drivers of effectuation versus causation	18
Short-term financial constraints and SMEs’ investment decision: evidence from the working capital channel	18
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies	18
Entrepreneurial ecosystems, institutional quality, and the unexpected role of the sustainability orientation of entrepreneurs	17
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	17
What drives the valuation of entrepreneurial ventures? A map to navigate the literature and research directions	17
Historical roots of entrepreneurship in different regional contexts—the case of Poland	17
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	17
In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand	16
Gender, culture, and implicit theories about entrepreneurs: a cross-national investigation	16
Topic-based classification and identification of global trends for startup companies	16
The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit?	16
Culture and gender in entrepreneurial teams: the effect on team processes and outcomes	16
Rethinking stabilization policies; Including supply-side measures and entrepreneurial processes	16
One swallow does not make a summer: episodes and persistence in high growth	16
Institutions, financial development, and small business survival: evidence from European emerging markets	16
Natural disasters, entrepreneurship activity, and the moderating role of country governance	16
Innovation and borrower discouragement in SMEs	16
Decision-making style in entrepreneurial finance and growth	15
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an Asian perspective	15
Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms	15
Fostering regional innovation, entrepreneurship and growth through public procurement	15
The salience of ethnic identity in entrepreneurship: an ethnic strategies of business action framework	15
Graduates of venture creation programs – where do they apply their entrepreneurial competencies?	15
Entrepreneur fund-seeking: toward a theory of funding fit in the era of equity crowdfunding	14
Can corporate social responsibility mitigate the liability of newness? Evidence from China	14
How gender stereotypes shape venture growth expectations	14
Entrepreneurs’ actions and venture success: a structured literature review and suggestions for future research	14
Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups	14
CEOs’ religiosity and corporate green initiatives	14
The growth of entrepreneurial human capital: origins and development of skill variety	14
Overcoming the ability-willingness paradox in small family firms’ collaborations	14
Public research and the quality of inventions: the role and impact of entrepreneurial universities and regional network embeddedness	14
Cognitive financial constraints and firm growth	14
Innovation drivers of external competitiveness in the great recession	14
Liminal spaces: A review of the art in entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship in art	13
Crowdfunding to overcome the immigrant entrepreneurs’ liability of outsidership: the role of internal social capital	13
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and industry knowledge: does the winning region take all?	13
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	13
Does globalization affect perceptions about entrepreneurship? The role of economic development	13
Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross-countries study	13
Industrial policy, innovative entrepreneurship, and the human capital of founders	13
Regional entrepreneurship and innovation: historical roots and the impact on the growth of regions	13
Homophily and peer influence in early-stage new venture informal investment	13
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	13
Motivational drivers to choose worker cooperatives as an entrepreneurial alternative: evidence from Spain	13
The role of distinct ADHD symptoms for pre-entry entrepreneurial behavior: when intentions do not translate into action	13
Effective policy mixes in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a configurational analysis in China	12
Same same, but different: capital structures in single family offices compared with private equity firms	12
Formal and informal entrepreneurship: a cross-country policy perspective	12
Openness to knowledge: does corporate social responsibility mediate the relationship between familiness and absorptive capacity?	12
Power and entrepreneurship	12
Proximity and inter-firm corruption: A transaction cost approach	12
Whirlwind model of entrepreneurial ecosystem path dependence	12
Digital platforms and entrepreneurial support: a field experiment in online mentoring	12
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	12
The nascent ecology of social enterprise	11
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	11
Gender differences in business performance: evidence from Kenya and South Africa	11
Three waves of immigrant entrepreneurship: a cross-national comparative study	11
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs	11
Whom do nascent ventures search for? Resource scarcity and linkage formation activities during new product development processes	11
Is there a gender gap in equity-based crowdfunding?	11
Remittances, ethnic diversity, and entrepreneurship in developing countries	11
The interplay of context and entrepreneurship: the new frontier for contextualisation research	11
CEO age, shareholder monitoring, and the organic growth of European firms	11
Capacity constraints as a trigger for high growth	11
The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields	11
Do African resource rents promote rent-seeking at the expense of entrepreneurship?	11
Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships	11
Taking mental models seriously: institutions, entrepreneurship, and the mediating role of socio-cognitive traits	11
Has previous loan rejection scarred firms from applying for loans during Covid-19?	11
Distinguishing unpredictability from uncertainty in entrepreneurial action theory	11