OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Small Business Economics is 13. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	161
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	95
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	95
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	92
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	90
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	87
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	84
Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation	83
Rooted in place and potential to change: how sense of place and openness to change influence community entrepreneurship intentions	76
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	74
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	60
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	59
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	59
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	55
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	54
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	52
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	52
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	51
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	50
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	50
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	50
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	48
The entrepreneurial creation of private institutions: exchange platform innovations and economic development	45
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	45
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	44

The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	43
Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research	42
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	42
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	41
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	41
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size	40
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	39
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	39
How humiliation reconstructs (or ruins) the entrepreneurial self	39
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	37
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	37
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	36
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	36
The adoption of artificial intelligence methods in entrepreneurship research: current state and pathways forward	36
Entrepreneurial stakeholder enrollment: discriminating alignment under intersubjective uncertainty	35
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	34
Practices of European and American venture capitalists: homogeneity and heterogeneity at work	34
External pressures, internal priorities: how socially oriented NGOs condition the performance effects of SMEs’ sustainability orientation	34
Digital equity and government support during COVID-19	33
The impact of trade facilitation on African SMEs’ performance	32
Re-entrepreneurial experience and learning during challenging times	32
Governors’ Tenure and Venture Capital Firms’ Early-stage Investing: A Subnational Institutional Perspective	32
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?	31
The role of culture in family firms	31
A tale of two startups: the loss and gain of startups in the U.S. economy in the pandemic	31
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	31
Accountants in family firms—a systematic literature review	30
Entrepreneurship under ambiguity: extending Aghion and Howitt	30
The times they are a‐changin’: how venture capital firms change their investment practices under the COVID-19 pandemic	30
The Paycheck Protection Program and small business performance: Evidence from craft breweries	29
Save for a rainy day? How regional household savings constrain entrepreneurship after a natural disaster	29
Who is lending to small and micro family business in China: evidence from CHFS data	28
Financing A Free-for-All: Crowdfunding Open-Source Software	28
On why women-owned businesses take more time to secure microloans	27
Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation	27
From imposter fears to authenticity: a typology of women entrepreneurs	26
Effectuation and causation models: an integrative theoretical framework	26
Labor market regulation and gendered entrepreneurship: a cross-national perspective	26
Outside or inside the firm? The impact of debt financing on the exit routes of start-up firms	26
Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being	26
Why SMEs go to crowdfunding? The role of financial constraints and agency issues	26
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs?	25
Digital adoption and human capital upscaling: a regional study of the manufacturing sector	25
The social benefit of being destructive: entrepreneurship and loan diversion	25
Driving change in higher education: the role of dynamic capabilities in strengthening universities’ third mission	25
SMEs, R &D financing, and credit shocks	25
Small grant subsidy application effects on productivity improvement: evidence from Japanese SMEs	25
Rural entrepreneurship: leveraging social media for circular economies and green activism	24
Hybrid entrepreneurship and risk	24
Intellectual property among incorporated and unincorporated entrepreneurs	24

Sustainable innovation in craft-based SMEs: a mixed-method study of Indonesian batik communities	24
Family firm network strategies in regional clusters: evidence from Italy	23
Network-based principles of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a case study of a start-up network	23
Stagnating or flourishing? How entrepreneurial support organizations navigate constraints in nascent ecosystems	23
Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	23
Fostering SME survival through insolvency proceedings: a legitimacy perspective on retrenchment, age, and firm-specific distress	23
Indirect effects of R&D subsidies: labor mobility as a channel for knowledge spillovers	22
Christina Guenther: a commemoration	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
Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs	21
Truth, knowledge, and entrepreneurship theory: arguments for a rationalist scientific epistemology	20
Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation	20
How do successful exits impact regional development? Longitudinal evidence from European cities	20
Entrepreneurship at the periphery: financial constraints, firm growth, and the liability of distance in island contexts	20
Growth expectations of entrepreneurs during crisis: the role of social, environmental, and economic motivations	19
Preparing fertile ground: how does the quality of business environments affect MSE growth?	19
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles	19
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation	19
Gender productivity gap: does gender-equal ownership compensate for female entrepreneurs’ lack of prior industry experience?	19
Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	19
Coping with high decline: firms’ resilience to adversity	18
Missing links of knowledge spillover effects on firm intensity and regional development	18
Crisis as a catalyst: how the pre-existing values of entrepreneurs shape strategic crisis responses	18
Cumulative versus punctuated patterns of R&D learning, productivity and R&D persistence	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
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems	18
Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets	18
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	17
Targeted monetary policy, SMEs’ loan availability, and corporate investment: evidence from China	17
Learning to grow in entrepreneurial ecosystems	17
Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship	17
Exploring spatial network structures in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a network and clustering analysis of global venture funding flows	17
The impact of education on entrepreneurial entry in rural areas: the role of village entrepreneurial intensity and clan culture in emerging economies	17
Correction: Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation	17
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms	17
Questions worth asking for futures worth making: an effectual approach	17
National environmental regulations and green market participation by SMEs	17
How institutional soil nourishes entrepreneurial seeds: natural experimental evidence from China’s IPR protection	17
Managing destructive entrepreneurship in place: formal and informal institutions for the achievement of regional economic growth	17
The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises	17
The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses	16
Orchestrating entrepreneurial ecosystems through transactive memory systems: a learning-based framework	16
Importing knowledge from psychology: how it broadens the scope of entrepreneurship research—and helps it avoid the “multi-tower effect”	16
Does digitalization sufficiently empower female entrepreneurs? Evidence from their online gender identities and crowdfunding performance	16
Correction: Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures	16
Does Berger and Udell (1998) financial life-cycle theory hold for loan interest rates?	16
New venture creation: innovativeness, speed-to-breakeven, and revenue tradeoffs	16
Digital innovation in family firms: The roles of non-family managers and transgenerational control intentions	16
The political economy of entrepreneurship	16
Correction to: The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms	16
Entrepreneurs and sleep: a scoping review of barriers, recovery strategies, and effects on performance	15
Entrepreneurs’ impatience and digital technologies	15
We are in this together: leading resource exchange between entrepreneurial ecosystems to strategically steer their development	15
Taking stock and looking ahead: research on antecedents and impact of sustainable entrepreneurship	15
Childhood exposure to natural disasters and future entrepreneurship in adulthood	15
Re-viewing entrepreneurial universities through alumni engagement	15
The Virus and the Citadel: exploring the performance impact of business group affiliation for small businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Technology transfer and academic entrepreneurship: a personal journey, lessons learned from the literature, and new directions	15
A path-centric account of action-oriented entrepreneurship training	15
Effects of immigration on native entrepreneurship in the US: an analysis of self-employment over 1980–2018	14
Sowing the seeds of rural prosperity? The limited impact of USDA investments on county-level business dynamics	14
Persuasive communications in the rapidly evolving area of entrepreneurial investment: the past, present, and future	14
Learning from different types of failure: evidence from non-severe and severe work accidents in SMEs	14
The impact of on-the-job training subsidies on firm-level outcomes: evidence from Flemish SMEs	14
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs	14
Training and innovation in microbusinesses	13
Giving something back: how reciprocal motivation drives entrepreneurs to contribute to their entrepreneurial ecosystem	13
Community-level social capital and investment decisions in equity crowdfunding	13
Advisors for micro-entrepreneurs: is one as good as another in accessing alternative finance?	13
Policy failure in public support for small business innovation: the case of innovation vouchers in China	13
Uneven gains: understanding LOF and multiculturalism impacts for immigrant and native-founded firms	13
European funds and firm performance: evidence from a natural experiment	13
ADHD and entrepreneurship: the role of perceived team conflict and gender on well-being	13
Passion and attractiveness on display: an examination of gender bias in crowdfunding	13
The cost of health insurance and entry into entrepreneurship	13
Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship	13