OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Small Business Management is 6. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior	67
The importance of literature reviews in small business and entrepreneurship research	59
A systematic literature review on SME financing: Trends and future directions	59
The influence of a digital strategy on the digitalization of new ventures: The mediating effect of digital capabilities and a digital culture	56
Entrepreneurial challenges of COVID-19: Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis	54
Corporate social responsibility in family firms: A systematic literature review	51
Women entrepreneurship in developing economies: A gender-based growth model	51
Entrepreneurial leadership of CEOs and employees’ innovative behavior in high-technology new ventures	45
Psychological resilience of entrepreneurs: A review and agenda for future research	44
What motivates social entrepreneurs? A meta-analysis on predictors of the intention to found a social enterprise	43
Entrepreneurial mindset: An integrated definition, a review of current insights, and directions for future research	40
Digital marketing in SMEs via data-driven strategies: Reviewing the current state of research	39
Entrepreneurial alertness: Exploring its psychological antecedents and effects on firm outcomes	38
Exploring digital transformation and dynamic capabilities in agrifood SMEs	36
What can education bring to entrepreneurship? Formal versus non-formal education	35
Gender and entrepreneurship: Research frameworks, barriers and opportunities for women entrepreneurship worldwide	35
Performance, working capital management, and the liability of smallness: A question of opportunity costs?	34
Open innovation in SMEs: A process view towards business model innovation	30
Process innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises: The critical roles of external knowledge sourcing and absorptive capacity	29
Entrepreneurial mindset shift and the role of cycles of learning	29
Does Industry 4.0 really matter for SME innovation?	28
“Let them not make me a stone”—repositioning entrepreneurship	27
Founder-CEOs: Succession planning for the success, growth, and legacy of family firms	26
Transitional entrepreneurship: Elevating research into marginalized entrepreneurs	26
The digitalization of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs): An institutional theory perspective	24

Equity crowdfunding: Forecasting market development, platform evolution, and regulation	24
Serial entrepreneurs: A review of literature and guidance for future research	24
Talking about a revolution? Costly and costless signals and the role of innovativeness in equity crowdfunding	23
Entrepreneurial passion and a firm’s innovation strategies	23
Understanding how and when personal values foster entrepreneurial behavior: A humane perspective	22
Transforming entrepreneurial orientation into performance in family SMEs: Are nonfamily CEOs better than family CEOs?	22
Unpacking the emergence of born global founders: A careers perspective	22
The entrepreneurial mindset and poverty	21
Credit risk in the microfinance industry: The role of gender affinity	21
The why and the how: A nexus on how opportunity, risk and personality affect entrepreneurial intention	21
Failure learning orientation, entrepreneurial orientation, and financial performance among U.S. biotechnology firms	20
The Journal of Small Business Management: A bibliometric overview of 1996–2019	20
Building entrepreneurship research for impact: Scope, phenomenon, and translation	20
Familiness and innovation outcomes in family firms: The mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation	19
“Hasta la vista, baby” – will machine learning terminate human literature reviews in entrepreneurship?	19
Does ambidexterity consistency benefit small and medium-sized enterprises’ resilience?	18
The impact of information technology on product innovation in SMEs: The role of technological orientation	18
Humane Entrepreneurial Framework: A model for effective corporate entrepreneurship	18
Gazelles, ponies, and the impact of business angels’ characteristics on firm growth	18
Predicting startup survival using first years financial statements	18
Entrepreneurial orientation and international opportunity development by SMEs: The mediating role of decision-making logic	17
Inheriting the legacy but not the business: When and where do family nonsuccessors become entrepreneurial?	17
The role of motivations and self-concepts in university graduate entrepreneurs’ creativity and resilience	16
Bank loans access for women business-owners in Bangladesh: Obstacles and dependence on husbands	16
From entrepreneurial experience to expertise: A self-regulated learning perspective	15
Entrepreneurial mindset in corporate entrepreneurship: Forms, impediments, and actions for research	15
Performance implications of technological uncertainty, age, and size for small businesses	15
Board secretary’s financial experience, overconfidence, and SMEs’ financing preference: Evidence from China’s NEEQ market	15
In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges	14
The use of cluster analysis in entrepreneurship research: Review of past research and future directions	14
Why I persist while others leave? Investigating the path from passion to persistence in entrepreneurship	14
Understanding micro-level resilience enactment of everyday entrepreneurs under threat	13
The influence of religion on the humane orientation of entrepreneurs	13
Culture values and entrepreneurial innovativeness: A comparative study of Malaysian ethnic entrepreneurs	13
How do institutional innovation systems affect open innovation?	13
What drives university engineering students to become entrepreneurs? Finding different recipes using a configuration approach	13
Alliance portfolio management capabilities, corporate entrepreneurship, and relative firm performance in SMEs	13
How novice and experienced entrepreneurs name new ventures	13
Examining entrepreneurial experience in relation to pre-launch and post-launch learning activities affecting venture performance	13
Capabilities and Performance of Early Internationalizing Firms: A Systematic Literature Review	13
Firm-environment alignment of entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation in technology-based ventures: A configurational approach	13
From hobby to business: Exploring environmental antecedents of entrepreneurial alertness using fsQCA	13
Resource combination activities and new venture growth: Exploring the role of effectuation, causation, and entrepreneurs’ gender	13
A multilevel analysis of the technological impact of university-SME joint innovations	12
Financial reporting in family firms: a socioemotional wealth approach toward information quality	12
Do tax policies drive innovation by SMEs in China?	12
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents	12
“Yes and. . ., but wait. . ., heck no!”: A socially situated cognitive approach towards understanding how startup entrepreneurs process critical feedback	12
United or divided? Entrepreneurial passion and faultlines in new venture teams	12
How frugal innovation and inclusive business are linked to tackle low-income markets	12

Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review	12
Lessons on small business resilience	12
Revisiting SME default predictors: The Omega Score	12
Dividends and tax avoidance as drivers of earnings management: Evidence from dividend-paying private SMEs in Finland	12
The Dark Triad’s incremental influence on entrepreneurial intentions	12
Evolution of the entrepreneurship and innovation research in Ibero-America between 1986 and 2015	12
Gender role congruity and crowdfunding success	12
Publishing entrepreneurship research: Strategies for success distilled from a review of over 3,500 submissions	11
Are you part of the crowd? The role of sex and environmental characteristics for crowdfunding awareness	11
Configurations of business founder resources, strategy, and environment determining new venture performance	11
Using functional neuroimaging to advance entrepreneurial cognition research	11
Unpacking entrepreneurial alertness: How character matters for entrepreneurial thinking	11
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	10
Antecedents of strategic ambidexterity in firms’ product innovation: External knowledge and internal information sharing	10
FsQCA in entrepreneurship research: Opportunities and best practices	10
Founders’ education, social capital, and their interplay in the intensity of new-venture internationalization	10
Training and performance in SMEs: Empirical evidence from large-scale data from the UK	10
The key to scaling in the digital era: Simultaneous automation, individualization and interdisciplinarity	9
Business model scaling and growth hacking in digital entrepreneurship	9
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding	9
Expectations of access to debt finance for SMEs in times of uncertainty	9
What we say = what we think? How implicit beliefs shape nascent entrepreneurial behavior	9
Does prior experience matter? A meta-analysis of the relationship between prior experience of entrepreneurs and firm performance	9
Why do academic scientists participate in academic entrepreneurship? An empirical investigation of department context and the antecedents of entrepreneurial behavior	9
When the going gets tough: Private equity firms’ role as agents and the resolution of financial distress in buyouts	8
Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance	8
The spectrum of perceived uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: Impacts on effectuation	8
Lead user innovation and entrepreneurship: Analyzing the current state of research	8
CEO succession game in family firms: Owners vs. advisors	8
An evaluation of the effectiveness of innovation ecosystems in facilitating the adoption of sustainable entrepreneurship	8
Nascent entrepreneurship and race: Evidence from the GATE experiment	8
SME managers’ causal beliefs on HRM as success factor of the firm	8
Cognitive styles and entrepreneurial intentions: A cross-cultural comparison	8
Moderation in all things: Industry-university-research alliance portfolio configuration and SMEs’ innovation performance in China	8
“The person with maximum knowledge will win the race”: Conceptualizing knowledge in microbusinesses	8
Navigating belonging as a Muslim Moroccan female entrepreneur	8
Viewing entrepreneurship “in motion”: Exploring current uses and future possibilities of video-based entrepreneurship research	8
The levels of base pay and incentive pay used by small firms to compensate professional employees with general and specific human capital	8
Specialized marketing capabilities and foreign expansion of the international new ventures	8
The moderating effect of ERP system complexity on the growth–profitability relationship in young SMEs	8
Resource reconfiguration by surviving SMEs in a disrupted industry	8
Are the self-employed more stressed? New evidence on an old question	8
Resilience building among small businesses in low-income neighborhoods	8
Economic and institutional determinants of lease financing for European SMEs: An analysis across developing and developed countries	7
COVID-19 as an external enabler: The role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial orientation	7
Opposite effects of R&D cooperation on financial and technological performance in SMEs	7
Equity crowdfunding for university spin-offs: Unveiling the motivations, benefits, and risks related to its adoption	7
The role of work-to-venture role conflict on hybrid entrepreneurs’ transition into entrepreneurship	7
Knowledge management practices and innovation: A deliberate innovation management model for SMEs	7
The influence of family ownership on acquisition activity: The moderating role of acquisition experience	7
Stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainable entrepreneurship within the context of a developing economy	7
Exploring founder identity tension, resolution, and venture pursuit	7
How do role conflict intensity and coping strategies affect the success of women entrepreneurs in Africa? Evidence from Ethiopia	7
The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context	7
Gender and quality signals: How does gender influence the effectiveness of signals in crowdfunding?	7
Does financial development really spur nascent entrepreneurship in Europe? — A panel data analysis	7
Double-threshold effect of technological innovation on environmental-responsibility fulfillment: Evidence from high-polluting SMEs in China	7
Gestation in new technology ventures: Causal brakes and effectual pedals	7
The interplay of core self-evaluation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in predicting entrepreneurial orientation	7
A behavioral view of SME product termination decisions	6
Owner-manager emotions and strategic responses of small family businesses to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Search behavior and decision confidence in equity crowdfunding: An information search process model perspective	6
Market orientation and SME performance: Moderating role of IoT and mediating role of creativity	6
Financial literacy in SMEs: A systematic literature review and a framework for further inquiry	6
Challenges for growing SMEs: A managerial perspective	6
Perceived success of hybrid microorganizations in a contested category	6
Pre-start-up internationalization mindsets trigger action	6
When owner, family, and community roles intertwine: Examining entrepreneurs’ persistence decisions and the gender effect	6
Critical methodological considerations for entrepreneurial cognition research	6
Conditioned to care: Gender differences in entrepreneurs’ socially responsible behaviors	6
International new ventures: Beyond definitional debates to advancing the cornerstone of international entrepreneurship	6