OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Small Business Economics is 10. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

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	128
What conditions favor high-potential entrepreneurship? Unpacking the nexus between the industrial structure and startup typologies	93
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	88
Gender differences in entrepreneurial equity financing—a systematic literature review	79
Turmoil over the crisis: innovation capabilities and firm exit	78
Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets	72
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles	71
How scientists interpret and address funding criteria: value creation and undesirable side effects	61
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation	59
Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience	59
Beware the community type: engagement and growth in core vs. open online communities	57
Financial Access and Entrepreneurship by Gender: Evidence from Rural India	56
Angel investors: the impact of regret from missed opportunities	55
Questions worth asking for futures worth making: an effectual approach	54
Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program get disbursed to minority communities in the early stages of COVID-19?	47
Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	42
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities: evidence from Brazil	42
Gender productivity gap: does gender-equal ownership compensate for female entrepreneurs’ lack of prior industry experience?	39
Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships	39
Preparing fertile ground: how does the quality of business environments affect MSE growth?	38
The role of cognitive legitimacy in social entrepreneurship: a multilevel analysis	38
Assessing the impact of the EIB’s intermediated lending to SMEs during funding shocks	36
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	36
When do firms learn? Learning before versus after exporting	35

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

Contextualizing small business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from small business owner-managers	17
The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance	16
Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements	16
Making, unmaking and remaking of context in entrepreneurial identity construction and experiences: a comparative analysis between Türkiye and the Netherlands	16
Soft and hard information in equity crowdfunding: network effects in the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance	16
Cultural diversity, social integration, and migrant entrepreneurship—evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey	16
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems	16
COVID-19 and the global venture capital landscape	16
Institutions, financial development, and small business survival: evidence from European emerging markets	15
Correction to: Entrepreneurship capital spillovers at the local level	15
European SMEs’ growth: the role of market-based finance and public financial support	15
Correction to: The global technology frontier: productivity growth and the relevance of Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneurship	15
Crowdfunding investors, intermediaries and risky entrepreneurs	15
Proximity and inter-firm corruption: A transaction cost approach	15
Truth, knowledge, and entrepreneurship theory: arguments for a rationalist scientific epistemology	14
Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment	14
Cognitive financial constraints and firm growth	14
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	14
Correction to: Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs	14
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	14
Is sustainable entrepreneurship profitable? ESG disclosure and the financial performance of SMEs	14
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	14
“Remembering David J Storey, a pioneer of the entrepreneurship field”	13
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	13
Do African resource rents promote rent-seeking at the expense of entrepreneurship?	13
The dynamic impact of inter-firm network agreements	13
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	13
Small business stories in the formation of enterprise policy: a narrative policy analysis of the UK Bolton Committee	13
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	13
Bank failures, local business dynamics, and government policy	13
Fostering regional innovation, entrepreneurship and growth through public procurement	13
The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs	12
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	12
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	12
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	12
Can corporate social responsibility mitigate the liability of newness? Evidence from China	12
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	12
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	12
Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective	12
Stickiness of entrepreneurs: an exploratory study of migration in two mid-sized US cities	12
Are there wages from “sin”? Working conditions spillover from paying bribe in Vietnam	12
Spatial variations in financial constraints of SMEs—evidence from firm-level estimates of investment-cash flow sensitivities in Sweden	11
Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms	11
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture	11
Women in the boardroom: a bottom–up approach to the trickle-down effect	11
The contribution of board experience to opportunity development in high-tech ventures	11
The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields	11
Entry-regulation and corruption: grease or sand in the wheels of entrepreneurship? Fresh evidence according to entrepreneurial motives	11
The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries	11
Persistence in firm growth: inference from conditional quantile transition matrices	11
Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban development	11
Venture creation in the aftermath of COVID-19: The impact of US governor party affiliation and discretion	11
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	11
Learning to ride the high growth “Rollercoaster”: the role of publicly funded business accelerator programmes	11
Was Robert Gibrat right? A test based on the graphical model methodology	10
Being your own boss and bossing others: the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees	10
Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship	10
Motivational drivers to choose worker cooperatives as an entrepreneurial alternative: evidence from Spain	10
I believe I can fly: how target venture CEO overconfidence affects acquisition completion	10
Greening the future: how venture capital nurtures cleantech companies’ growth in Europe	10
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	10
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	10
The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses	10
The relationship between business regulation and nascent and young business entrepreneurship revisited	10
Political participation and new venture decentralization: an attention-based view	10
An empirical examination of firm growth in the MENA region through the lens of Gibrat’s law	10
Education, social identity and self-employment over time: evidence from a developing country	10
Culture and social entrepreneurship: the role of value-practice misalignment	10
Skill improvement by product imitation	10