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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes	142
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises	129
Re-examining the team reflexivity–innovation relationship: The roles of team resilience and team dominant functional diversity	92
Entrepreneurship at the edge of informality and digitalization: Mapping hybrid business models in underinstitutionalized contexts	73
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance	68
Diagnostic control systems and boundary systems: Pathway or barrier to SMEs’ entrepreneurial success	67
The role of flexibility, digitalization, and crisis response strategy for SMEs: Case of COVID-19	55
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery	55
The paths leading to harmonious and obsessive entrepreneurial passion	55
Big data driven supply chains in SMEs: The role of industry digitalization	51
Microfoundations of entrepreneurial leadership: Successful women entrepreneurs in a developing economy	47
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates	46
Cultivating social entrepreneurs: Shaping self-evaluations for positive social change in impact careers	44
The power of family firm image in rewards-based crowdfunding	39
Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance	37
Business model innovation and SME performance and performance variability: The role of CEO persistence	35
From belief to action: How constructive rule beliefs influence rule-breaking in entrepreneurial settings	33
He-said, she-said: A family science and gendered perspective of communication in small family businesses	32
External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England	30
I make my own rules: The role of rule-breaking and ethics in driving entrepreneurial intention and involvement	30
The female role model tactic: Theorizing change in tech entrepreneurship	28
Multi-level entrepreneurial ecosystem framework: Founder, incubator, and country characteristics for start-up performance	27
The antecedents of family-centered performance in SME family firms: An organizational positivity perspective	26
The impact of startup subsidies on survival, growth, and stakeholder value	26
A RICH resilience capability portfolio: Linking resiliency to strategic entrepreneurship behavior	25

Choice or chance: How successful entrepreneurs talk about luck	24
Intersectional dimensions of entrepreneurship among immigrant Hispanic women	24
Origin of Korean entrepreneurship	24
Unconventional philosophies and practices: Vietnamese family firm performance in multiple countries	23
Enhancing digital innovation in developing countries: Organizational improvisation and resource constraints in digital entrepreneurial firms	22
Contextualizing talent management: A practice-based study of Turkish SMEs and large organizations	22
Exploring the benefits and risks of displayed passion in entrepreneurial pitches	22
Eco-innovations in family SMEs: Understanding the role of financial performance satisfaction	22
Hybrid entrepreneurs: The value of experience	21
Vision communication in turbulent times: How startup leaders navigate dynamic environments	21
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	21
The impact of distance on social capital in high-tech born global companies	20
Government finance, loans, and guarantees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (2000–2021): A systematic review	19
Leverage cyclicality and the role of collateral: A comparative study of SMEs and large firms	19
Can playing defense yield gains? Examining the relationships among regulatory focus, innovation, and SME performance	19
A psychological rating instrument: The entrepreneurial pitching success scale and its reliability and validity	19
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications	18
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education	18
Lessons on small business resilience	18
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?	18
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms	17
Agility and improvisation in Ontario’s craft breweries: Capabilities for constraints-based innovation	17
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa	17
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation	17
The process of growing in small firms: Exploring dialectic adjustments to nonroutine disruption	17
Making the case for digital transformation: Digital entrepreneurship and on-demand service innovation	17
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review	16
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters	16
Family firms’ survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity	16
The short- and long-term influences of personal values in predicting new venture creation	15
The role of socialization for transgenerational entrepreneurship: The historical case of the Florio family	15
The gendered art of the pitch: How entrepreneurs’ gender identity in roadshows affects financing performance	14
Building strategic human capital resources: The effects of strategic entrepreneurship on employee recruitment and retention	14
R&D investment, innovation, and export performance: An analysis of SME and large firms	14
The implications of crypto hacker attacks on financing new ventures	14
Peer-to-peer lending: Exploring borrowers’ motivations and expectations	13
Mobilizing potential slack and firm performance: Evidence from French SMEs before and during the COVID-19 period	13
Getting to the one: Prioritizing an idea set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics	13
Applicant attraction to new ventures: The combined effects of entrepreneurs’ physical attractiveness and gender	13
The phantom push: a reevaluation of necessity entrepreneurship	13
Clearing the hurdles: Revisiting the under-performance hypothesis for women-led VC funded firms	12
Life satisfaction of family business members: The role of socioemotional wealth goals and psychological functioning	12
FsQCA in entrepreneurship research: Opportunities and best practices	12
Dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurship—DyCE: A new domain for theoretical and empirical research	12
It’s “time” to “talk” about entrepreneurial alertness	11
Exploring the effects of institutional logics on entrepreneurial opportunity evaluations in emerging economies	11
Angel time horizon and industry preferences: The moderating role of personal wealth	11
Entrepreneurs as influencers: The role of female entrepreneurs in small business development	11
Entrepreneurial overconfidence and SME financing decisions	11
The prediction of future cash flow for UK private companies	11

Equity split evolution in entrepreneurial teams: Assessing financial contributions and human capital	11
Financing women entrepreneurship in the developing world: An fsQCA analysis of informal financing schemes	11
Digital communities of inquiry: How online communities support entrepreneurial opportunity development	10
Generative artificial intelligence in environmental entrepreneurship: Emerging roles and challenges to achieve a dual mission	10
Industry-relatedness, geographic proximity and strategic decisions of corporate and independent venture capital-backed companies	10
From athletes to entrepreneurs: Participation in youth sports as a precursor to future business endeavors	10
Why owls fly while ostriches flounder: An empirical study of advice takers and non–advice takers	10
Exploring innovation ecosystems to facilitate the adoption of sustainable entrepreneurship: Looking beyond the Western World	10
Signaling theory in entrepreneurial fundraising and crowdfunding research	10
A guide to becoming green: Insights from angel investors developing sustainability-specific knowledge	9
Inhibitors and facilitators of talent management and succession in family-owned firms: A multilevel perspective	9
Decoding decision-making: The interplay of cognitive processes and working capital management constraints in new ventures	9
Artificial intelligence machines as relational nonhuman actors in entrepreneurial teams	9
Entrepreneurial identity formation in family firms: the transgenerational impact of parents’ fear of failure	9
Business associations, access to finance, and institutional quality: Drivers of SMEs’ circular economy transformation	8
Family business research: The next generation	8
Entrepreneurial authenticity: The five-dimensional framework of entrepreneurial authenticity in strategic value creation for SMEs	8
Applying resource-based theory to social value creation: A conceptual model of contributive advantage	8
Family firm entrepreneurship: An experimental study	8
Assessing the importance of managerial and entrepreneurial experience in entrepreneurial training programs	8
The role of board design in small-firm crisis response	8
Are bricoleurs more satisfied? How bricolage affects entrepreneur job satisfaction among experienced versus novice entrepreneurs	7
The effects of perceived shame on novice entrepreneurs’ re-entry intention	7
Owner-manager emotions and strategic responses of small family businesses to the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Challenges for growing SMEs: A managerial perspective	7
Entrepreneurial challenges of COVID-19: Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis	7
Women entrepreneurs’ negotiation of the work–family balance in patriarchal society	7
Different strokes for different folks: A review of SME decline and turnaround	7
Decoding evidence-based entrepreneurship: A systematic review of meta-analytic choices and reporting	7
Industry versus firm effects on dividend policy: Evidence from privately held SMEs	7
Entrepreneurship in the shadow of clan culture: Informal institutions and entrepreneurs’ subjective well-being	7
Heroes of the Green Room – How able successors revitalize and reinvent family firms	7
Opening the black box of venture capitalists’ evaluation of entrepreneurial teams	7
Enhancing sustainable performance through sustainable business model innovation	6
Linking green marketing and SMEs performance: A psychometric meta-analysis	6
When the tank is empty: Reviewing burnout in entrepreneurship	6
Assessing motivational factors and effectual mechanisms’ impact on developing radical innovation in small firms	6
The impact of explorative and exploitative collaborations on SMEs innovative performance	6
Two acts, one stage: Crowdfunding and the power of self-presentation in times of crisis	6
Party platforms and entrepreneurial pathways: Exploring the impact of political parties on venture formation	6
Entrepreneurial resilience in the digital era: The role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and passion	6
Strategic retail expansion for artisanal producers: Quality signaling through geographic proximity in small business distribution decisions	6
Beyond educating students about business failure: The role of optimism training and hope	5
Toward a theory of entrepreneurial orientation and technology fit in SMEs	5
The eudaimonic well-being of entrepreneurs: A gendered perspective	5
Racial disparities in the small business loan market	5
Academics and entrepreneurs: Enablers of hybrid identity centrality among university researchers	5
Retaining reluctant successors in family firms: The roles of childhood exposure and affective commitment	5
Attracting nonfamily applicants to the family firm: A signaling theory approach	5
More than just money: Single-family offices as guardians of the family legacy	5
The board as a guide for learning in growing SMEs	5
Loan size concentration under the UK enterprise finance guarantee scheme and SME access to finance	5
Ownership mindset, autonomy, and innovation: Contingent pathways to entrepreneurial success in emerging economies	5
Creators or adopters: Entrepreneurial team experience and AI startup emergence	5
The family business CEO: A review of insights and opportunities for advancement	5
Bricolage and new-venture performance: conditions of digitalization, causation, and effectuation	5
International new ventures: Beyond definitional debates to advancing the cornerstone of international entrepreneurship	5
How does a subsequent entrepreneurship career choice develop? A set-theoretic analysis testing hope theory	4
Generative artificial intelligence use and configurational pathways to innovation performance in start-ups	4
Exploring the role of managerial and organizational capabilities for the inbound internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises	4
Leading through paradox: How and when lead founder paradoxical leadership navigates entrepreneurial tensions	4
Inside-out and outside-in: How entrepreneurial ecosystems can build legitimacy through signaling	4
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	4
An exploration of digital servitization business models in manufacturing SMEs	4
The new normal: The status quo of AI adoption in SMEs	4
Acquihires by SMEs as a strategic response to industry digitalization	4
Exploring the effect of institutions on entrepreneurial ecosystems: A meta–analysis	4
Entrepreneurship, age, and social value creation: A constraint-based individual perspective	4
Acquiring for growth: Goals and motivations in entrepreneurship through acquisition	4
Bourdieusian and resource-based perspectives on ethnic minority microbusinesses: The construction of a culture-induced entrepreneurship model	4
Family firms and sensegiving in a global crisis: Nudging toward a sunspot	4
Adverse retention of family talent in intrafamily succession	4
Understanding international CSR in SMEs	4