OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Small Business Management is 4. 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
The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context	113
An exploration of digital servitization business models in manufacturing SMEs	96
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes	95
Moderation in all things: Industry-university-research alliance portfolio configuration and SMEs’ innovation performance in China	79
Small-business owners and their choice of banks: Some lessons from the banking literature and game theory in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic	71
Search behavior and decision confidence in equity crowdfunding: An information search process model perspective	70
Family firm entrepreneurship: An experimental study	69
Forced transgenerational succession: Insights from a South African family business	69
Acquihires by SMEs as a strategic response to industry digitalization	67
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation	57
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education	53
Exploring the effect of institutions on entrepreneurial ecosystems: A meta–analysis	53
Adverse retention of family talent in intrafamily succession	47
Special issue on small business financing: New actors, new opportunities, new challenges	46
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises	40
Formalization of annual performance feedback and employees’ job satisfaction in the SME context	38
About the lives and times of extraordinary entrepreneurs: The methodological contribution of autobiographies to the life course theory of entrepreneurship	38
Why do academic scientists participate in academic entrepreneurship? An empirical investigation of department context and the antecedents of entrepreneurial behavior	34
In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges	33
Conditioned to care: Gender differences in entrepreneurs’ socially responsible behaviors	32
Why I persist while others leave? Investigating the path from passion to persistence in entrepreneurship	28
Applying resource-based theory to social value creation: A conceptual model of contributive advantage	28
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications	28
The interplay of core self-evaluation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in predicting entrepreneurial orientation	27
The role of work-to-venture role conflict on hybrid entrepreneurs’ transition into entrepreneurship	27

Lead user innovation and entrepreneurship: Analyzing the current state of research	27
Effectuation processes of social media and student entrepreneurs in South Korea	26
Gender and entrepreneurship: Research frameworks, barriers and opportunities for women entrepreneurship worldwide	25
Understanding international CSR in SMEs	25
The social and economic outputs of SME-GSI research collaboration in an emerging economy: An ecosystem perspective	24
The role of board design in small-firm crisis response	23
Business model redesign through effectual action in times of crisis	23
Does intergenerational leadership hinder the realization of innovation potential? A resource orchestration perspective	22
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding	22
Lessons on small business resilience	22
Gendered identity: Narratives from behind the entrepreneurial pitch	21
Decoding decision-making: The interplay of cognitive processes and working capital management constraints in new ventures	21
How small business owners navigate stress for improved performance: Building psychological capital through peer interactions	21
Transforming entrepreneurial orientation into performance in family SMEs: Are nonfamily CEOs better than family CEOs?	20
Is “accredited crowdfunding” a lemons market? Evidence from 506(c) filings	20
Resource reconfiguration by surviving SMEs in a disrupted industry	20
Performance implications of technological uncertainty, age, and size for small businesses	19
Knowledge management practices and innovation: A deliberate innovation management model for SMEs	19
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance	19
Gender role congruity and crowdfunding success	18
Assessing the importance of managerial and entrepreneurial experience in entrepreneurial training programs	17
“Yes and. . ., but wait. . ., heck no!”: A socially situated cognitive approach towards understanding how startup entrepreneurs process critical feedback	17
Entrepreneurial challenges of COVID-19: Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis	17
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents	17
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?	16
Business model scaling and growth hacking in digital entrepreneurship	16
Improving the performance of governmental venture capital firms: Reforms at Shenzhen Capital Group	16
The room where it happened: Conversation analysis of entrepreneur meetups	16
Unpacking entrepreneurial alertness: How character matters for entrepreneurial thinking	16
Who is willing to be rich and king? Founder-CEOs’ IPO and M&A intentions	15
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery	15
Opening the black box of venture capitalists’ evaluation of entrepreneurial teams	14
“Hasta la vista, baby” – will machine learning terminate human literature reviews in entrepreneurship?	14
How micro-firms innovate: A qualitative study on the role of networks	14
The Journal of Small Business Management: A bibliometric overview of 1996–2019	14
More than capital? Transaction costs, trade-offs, and value for small businesses in novel funding transactions	14
Causal cognitive mapping in the entrepreneurial cognition field: A comparison of two alternative methods	14
What we say = what we think? How implicit beliefs shape nascent entrepreneurial behavior	13
When owner, family, and community roles intertwine: Examining entrepreneurs’ persistence decisions and the gender effect	13
Gestation in new technology ventures: Causal brakes and effectual pedals	13
Public administration and new venture startups: The association between economic development and the role of bureaucracy in startup activity	13
New ventures going global: Cognition and context	13
Transitional entrepreneurship: Elevating research into marginalized entrepreneurs	12
Board–TMT task conflict: The impact on shared strategic vision and moderating effect of shared leadership	12
Founders’ education, social capital, and their interplay in the intensity of new-venture internationalization	12
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa	12
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms	12
Humane Entrepreneurial Framework: A model for effective corporate entrepreneurship	11
Are bricoleurs more satisfied? How bricolage affects entrepreneur job satisfaction among experienced versus novice entrepreneurs	11
The process of growing in small firms: Exploring dialectic adjustments to nonroutine disruption	11

Heroes of the Green Room – How able successors revitalize and reinvent family firms	11
Agility and improvisation in Ontario’s craft breweries: Capabilities for constraints-based innovation	11
Perceived importance of intellectual property protection methods by Korean SMEs involved in product innovation and their value appropriation	10
Inside-out and outside-in: How entrepreneurial ecosystems can build legitimacy through signaling	10
Owner-manager emotions and strategic responses of small family businesses to the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Environmental practice adoption in SMEs: The effects of firm proactive orientation and regulatory pressure	10
From entrepreneurial experience to expertise: A self-regulated learning perspective	10
The role of flexibility, digitalization, and crisis response strategy for SMEs: Case of COVID-19	10
Credit risk in the microfinance industry: The role of gender affinity	9
Childhood trauma and entrepreneurs’ individual entrepreneurial orientation	9
The entrepreneurial mindset and poverty	9
Entrepreneurship, age, and social value creation: A constraint-based individual perspective	9
The spectrum of perceived uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: Impacts on effectuation	9
The mediating roles of financialization and vertical integration in the innovation culture and performance relationship: An examination of SME investment firms	9
Advice seeking and mentors’ influence on entrepreneurs’ role identity and business-model change	9
Family firms’ survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity	8
Drivers and outcomes of CSR engagement in UK SMES	8
Creativity, alertness, and entrepreneurship: A multilevel meta-analysis	8
The paths leading to harmonious and obsessive entrepreneurial passion	8
Decoding evidence-based entrepreneurship: A systematic review of meta-analytic choices and reporting	8
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review	7
Financial literacy in SMEs: A systematic literature review and a framework for further inquiry	7
How university business incubation supports entrepreneurs in technology-based and creative industries: A comparative study	7
Women entrepreneurs’ negotiation of the work–family balance in patriarchal society	7
Challenges for growing SMEs: A managerial perspective	7
Culture values and entrepreneurial innovativeness: A comparative study of Malaysian ethnic entrepreneurs	7
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters	7
Women entrepreneurship in developing economies: A gender-based growth model	6
The influence of religion on the humane orientation of entrepreneurs	6
Explaining technological innovation of the clustered firms: Internal and relational factors	6
Exploring the relationship between hybrid founder social identities and entrepreneurs’ psychological resilience	6
Better-prepared to face COVID-19: Organizational learning from SMEs’ experience with banking crises	6
Serial entrepreneurs: A review of literature and guidance for future research	6
How frugal innovation and inclusive business are linked to tackle low-income markets	6
Pre-start-up internationalization mindsets trigger action	6
The localness effect of family firm branding on consumer perceptions and purchase intention: An experimental approach	6
The jazz jam session improvisation model of stakeholder engagement in entrepreneurial ecosystems	6
The family factor: How collaborative dialogue between owner managers and the owner family shapes firm-level outcomes	6
The Effect of Online Discussion Boards on Equity Crowdfunding Dynamics	6
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates	5
Linking green marketing and SMEs performance: A psychometric meta-analysis	5
The pre-foundation evolution of proactiveness in born global and non-born global USOs	5
The impact of explorative and exploitative collaborations on SMEs innovative performance	5
The importance of literature reviews in small business and entrepreneurship research	5
Achieving high international market performance via simple vs complex configuration of international managerial network ties: A set theoretic approach across two countries	5
Selling to “the man”: How dependence on sales to the government affects new venture performance	5
The role of geographical distance for investment decisions in crowdinvesting	4
Mitigating the impact of late internationalization of emerging market SMEs: A dynamic capability perspective	4
R&D investment, innovation, and export performance: An analysis of SME and large firms	4
External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England	4
Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance	4
Psychological resilience of entrepreneurs: A review and agenda for future research	4
Institutional forces and knowledge search strategies as predictors of entrepreneurial venture performance	4
Entrepreneurial competencies influence subjective well-being of subsistence entrepreneurs: Examining the mediating role of business performance	4
Does prior experience matter? A meta-analysis of the relationship between prior experience of entrepreneurs and firm performance	4
Building strategic human capital resources: The effects of strategic entrepreneurship on employee recruitment and retention	4
He-said, she-said: A family science and gendered perspective of communication in small family businesses	4
Equity crowdfunding for university spin-offs: Unveiling the motivations, benefits, and risks related to its adoption	4
The Dark Triad’s incremental influence on entrepreneurial intentions	4
Assessing motivational factors and effectual mechanisms’ impact on developing radical innovation in small firms	4
The early bird catches the worm: The role of regulatory uncertainty in early adoption of blockchain’s cryptocurrency by fintech ventures	4
Psychological capital and emotions on “surviving” or “thriving” during uncertainty: Evidence from women entrepreneurs	4
The impact of managerial goal attention alignment on dynamic capabilities: Insights from Taiwanese social enterprises	4
Tweeting to Triumph: Gender differences in harnessing social media for crowdfunding	4