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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	152
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	92
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	88
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	88
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	88
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	83
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	82
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	78
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	75
Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation	71
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	58
Rooted in place and potential to change: how sense of place and openness to change influence community entrepreneurship intentions	57
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	54
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	53
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	52
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	48
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	48
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	48
Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research	48
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	47
The entrepreneurial creation of private institutions: exchange platform innovations and economic development	46
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	46
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	45
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	44
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	44

Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	43
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	41
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	41
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	41
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	40
How humiliation reconstructs (or ruins) the entrepreneurial self	40
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	40
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	39
The adoption of artificial intelligence methods in entrepreneurship research: current state and pathways forward	38
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	38
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	38
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size	37
Entrepreneurial stakeholder enrollment: discriminating alignment under intersubjective uncertainty	36
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	36
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	36
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	35
The impact of trade facilitation on African SMEs’ performance	35
Governors’ Tenure and Venture Capital Firms’ Early-stage Investing: A Subnational Institutional Perspective	34
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	34
The role of culture in family firms	33
External pressures, internal priorities: how socially oriented NGOs condition the performance effects of SMEs’ sustainability orientation	33
Re-entrepreneurial experience and learning during challenging times	31
Digital equity and government support during COVID-19	31
Practices of European and American venture capitalists: homogeneity and heterogeneity at work	31
Accountants in family firms—a systematic literature review	30
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?	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
A tale of two startups: the loss and gain of startups in the U.S. economy in the 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
Labor market regulation and gendered entrepreneurship: a cross-national perspective	29
Financing A Free-for-All: Crowdfunding Open-Source Software	28
Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation	28
Who is lending to small and micro family business in China: evidence from CHFS data	28
On why women-owned businesses take more time to secure microloans	28
Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being	27
Why SMEs go to crowdfunding? The role of financial constraints and agency issues	27
Effectuation and causation models: an integrative theoretical framework	27
From imposter fears to authenticity: a typology of women entrepreneurs	26
Digital adoption and human capital upscaling: a regional study of the manufacturing sector	26
Driving change in higher education: the role of dynamic capabilities in strengthening universities’ third mission	26
Outside or inside the firm? The impact of debt financing on the exit routes of start-up firms	26
Ownership types, institutions, and the internationalization of emerging economy new ventures: evidence from Africa	26
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs?	25
The social benefit of being destructive: entrepreneurship and loan diversion	25
Indirect effects of R&D subsidies: labor mobility as a channel for knowledge spillovers	24
SMEs, R &D financing, and credit shocks	24
Fostering SME survival through insolvency proceedings: a legitimacy perspective on retrenchment, age, and firm-specific distress	24
Small grant subsidy application effects on productivity improvement: evidence from Japanese SMEs	24

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