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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of a digital strategy on the digitalization of new ventures: The mediating effect of digital capabilities and a digital culture	97
A systematic literature review on SME financing: Trends and future directions	91
Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior	89
Entrepreneurial challenges of COVID-19: Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis	75
Women entrepreneurship in developing economies: A gender-based growth model	71
Corporate social responsibility in family firms: A systematic literature review	69
Psychological resilience of entrepreneurs: A review and agenda for future research	67
The importance of literature reviews in small business and entrepreneurship research	66
Entrepreneurial mindset: An integrated definition, a review of current insights, and directions for future research	62
What motivates social entrepreneurs? A meta-analysis on predictors of the intention to found a social enterprise	61
Digital marketing in SMEs via data-driven strategies: Reviewing the current state of research	57
Exploring digital transformation and dynamic capabilities in agrifood SMEs	52
Open innovation in SMEs: A process view towards business model innovation	50
Gender and entrepreneurship: Research frameworks, barriers and opportunities for women entrepreneurship worldwide	47
Entrepreneurial alertness: Exploring its psychological antecedents and effects on firm outcomes	46
Process innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises: The critical roles of external knowledge sourcing and absorptive capacity	45
Serial entrepreneurs: A review of literature and guidance for future research	40
Transitional entrepreneurship: Elevating research into marginalized entrepreneurs	38
Entrepreneurial mindset shift and the role of cycles of learning	34
“Let them not make me a stone”—repositioning entrepreneurship	33
“Hasta la vista, baby” – will machine learning terminate human literature reviews in entrepreneurship?	31
Equity crowdfunding: Forecasting market development, platform evolution, and regulation	29
Credit risk in the microfinance industry: The role of gender affinity	28
Understanding how and when personal values foster entrepreneurial behavior: A humane perspective	28
Humane Entrepreneurial Framework: A model for effective corporate entrepreneurship	27

Transforming entrepreneurial orientation into performance in family SMEs: Are nonfamily CEOs better than family CEOs?	27
Entrepreneurial mindset in corporate entrepreneurship: Forms, impediments, and actions for research	27
The entrepreneurial mindset and poverty	26
The why and the how: A nexus on how opportunity, risk and personality affect entrepreneurial intention	25
Inheriting the legacy but not the business: When and where do family nonsuccessors become entrepreneurial?	25
Why I persist while others leave? Investigating the path from passion to persistence in entrepreneurship	24
Performance implications of technological uncertainty, age, and size for small businesses	24
Gazelles, ponies, and the impact of business angels’ characteristics on firm growth	24
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review	22
A multilevel analysis of the technological impact of university-SME joint innovations	22
Lessons on small business resilience	22
Building entrepreneurship research for impact: Scope, phenomenon, and translation	22
Familiness and innovation outcomes in family firms: The mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation	21
In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges	21
The Journal of Small Business Management: A bibliometric overview of 1996–2019	20
Does ambidexterity consistency benefit small and medium-sized enterprises’ resilience?	20
An evaluation of the effectiveness of innovation ecosystems in facilitating the adoption of sustainable entrepreneurship	20
From entrepreneurial experience to expertise: A self-regulated learning perspective	19
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	19
Understanding micro-level resilience enactment of everyday entrepreneurs under threat	18
Culture values and entrepreneurial innovativeness: A comparative study of Malaysian ethnic entrepreneurs	18
Capabilities and Performance of Early Internationalizing Firms: A Systematic Literature Review	18
Revisiting SME default predictors: The Omega Score	17
The influence of religion on the humane orientation of entrepreneurs	17
Dividends and tax avoidance as drivers of earnings management: Evidence from dividend-paying private SMEs in Finland	17
The spectrum of perceived uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: Impacts on effectuation	17
FsQCA in entrepreneurship research: Opportunities and best practices	17
The key to scaling in the digital era: Simultaneous automation, individualization and interdisciplinarity	16
Board secretary’s financial experience, overconfidence, and SMEs’ financing preference: Evidence from China’s NEEQ market	16
Are you part of the crowd? The role of sex and environmental characteristics for crowdfunding awareness	16
Resilience building among small businesses in low-income neighborhoods	16
How frugal innovation and inclusive business are linked to tackle low-income markets	16
Business model scaling and growth hacking in digital entrepreneurship	16
Configurations of business founder resources, strategy, and environment determining new venture performance	16
The Dark Triad’s incremental influence on entrepreneurial intentions	16
Gender role congruity and crowdfunding success	16
Antecedents of strategic ambidexterity in firms’ product innovation: External knowledge and internal information sharing	15
United or divided? Entrepreneurial passion and faultlines in new venture teams	14
Why do academic scientists participate in academic entrepreneurship? An empirical investigation of department context and the antecedents of entrepreneurial behavior	14
Viewing entrepreneurship “in motion”: Exploring current uses and future possibilities of video-based entrepreneurship research	14
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding	13
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents	13
Lead user innovation and entrepreneurship: Analyzing the current state of research	13
Stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainable entrepreneurship within the context of a developing economy	13
Knowledge management practices and innovation: A deliberate innovation management model for SMEs	13
“Yes and. . ., but wait. . ., heck no!”: A socially situated cognitive approach towards understanding how startup entrepreneurs process critical feedback	13
Analysis of the digital platform economy around the world: A network DEA model for identifying policy priorities	12
Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance	12
Moderation in all things: Industry-university-research alliance portfolio configuration and SMEs’ innovation performance in China	12
Using functional neuroimaging to advance entrepreneurial cognition research	12

Financial literacy in SMEs: A systematic literature review and a framework for further inquiry	12
Cross-level effects of entrepreneurial orientation and ambidexterity on the resilience of small business owners	12
COVID-19 as an external enabler: The role of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial orientation	12
Unpacking entrepreneurial alertness: How character matters for entrepreneurial thinking	12
Gender and quality signals: How does gender influence the effectiveness of signals in crowdfunding?	11
Double-threshold effect of technological innovation on environmental-responsibility fulfillment: Evidence from high-polluting SMEs in China	11
What we say = what we think? How implicit beliefs shape nascent entrepreneurial behavior	11
A critical analysis of the Nigerian entrepreneurial ecosystem on transformational entrepreneurship	11
Challenges for growing SMEs: A managerial perspective	11
Resource reconfiguration by surviving SMEs in a disrupted industry	11
CEO succession game in family firms: Owners vs. advisors	11
Gestation in new technology ventures: Causal brakes and effectual pedals	11
Does financial development really spur nascent entrepreneurship in Europe? — A panel data analysis	10
Does prior experience matter? A meta-analysis of the relationship between prior experience of entrepreneurs and firm performance	10
The effect of institutions on intrapreneurship: An analysis of developed vs developing countries	10
The role of work-to-venture role conflict on hybrid entrepreneurs’ transition into entrepreneurship	10
The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context	10
International new ventures: Beyond definitional debates to advancing the cornerstone of international entrepreneurship	9
Equity crowdfunding for university spin-offs: Unveiling the motivations, benefits, and risks related to its adoption	9
Editorial: Contemporary Perspectives on Social and Humane Entrepreneurship	9
Founders’ education, social capital, and their interplay in the intensity of new-venture internationalization	9
Market orientation and SME performance: Moderating role of IoT and mediating role of creativity	9
Exploring founder identity tension, resolution, and venture pursuit	9
Performing and unperforming entrepreneurial success: Confessions of a female role model	8
When owner, family, and community roles intertwine: Examining entrepreneurs’ persistence decisions and the gender effect	8
Owner-manager emotions and strategic responses of small family businesses to the COVID-19 pandemic	8
The interplay of core self-evaluation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in predicting entrepreneurial orientation	8
Can playing defense yield gains? Examining the relationships among regulatory focus, innovation, and SME performance	8
Environmental practice adoption in SMEs: The effects of firm proactive orientation and regulatory pressure	8
A behavioral view of SME product termination decisions	7
The social and economic outputs of SME-GSI research collaboration in an emerging economy: An ecosystem perspective	7
SMEs and dividend payout policy in case of poor legal environment	7
Search behavior and decision confidence in equity crowdfunding: An information search process model perspective	7
Pre-start-up internationalization mindsets trigger action	7
Conditioned to care: Gender differences in entrepreneurs’ socially responsible behaviors	7
Digital communities of inquiry: How online communities support entrepreneurial opportunity development	6
SME default prediction: A systematic methodology-focused review	6
Achieving high international market performance via simple vs complex configuration of international managerial network ties: A set theoretic approach across two countries	6
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?	6
Keeping a keen edge: Social support among new venture team members and venture goal commitment	6
Ambidexterity: Size matters! Reflexive climate and organizational TMS’s influence and the contingent effect of size	6
Social innovation in Saudi Arabia: The role of entrepreneurs’ spirituality, ego resilience and alertness	6
The early bird catches the worm: The role of regulatory uncertainty in early adoption of blockchain’s cryptocurrency by fintech ventures	6
Government finance, loans, and guarantees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (2000–2021): A systematic review	6
Debt maturity and SMEs: Do auditor’s quality and ownership structure matter?	6
The pre-foundation evolution of proactiveness in born global and non-born global USOs	6
Are bricoleurs more satisfied? How bricolage affects entrepreneur job satisfaction among experienced versus novice entrepreneurs	6
Contextualizing founder identity in coworking spaces	5
How university business incubation supports entrepreneurs in technology-based and creative industries: A comparative study	5
Acquihires by SMEs as a strategic response to industry digitalization	5
Predicting New Venture Gestation Outcomes With Machine Learning Methods	5
Perceived importance of intellectual property protection methods by Korean SMEs involved in product innovation and their value appropriation	5
Industry-relatedness, geographic proximity and strategic decisions of corporate and independent venture capital-backed companies	5
How the tone of mass media news affects pledge amounts in reward crowdfunding campaigns	5
Forced transgenerational succession: Insights from a South African family business	5
Causal cognitive mapping in the entrepreneurial cognition field: A comparison of two alternative methods	4
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education	4
Friends for richer or poorer: Economic connectedness, regional social capital, and county entrepreneurial activity	4
Pitching with your heart (on your sleeve): Getting to the heart of how display authenticity matters in crowdfunding	4
Entrepreneur and organizational resilience: A multilevel perspective on Italian SMEs	4
The Effect of Online Discussion Boards on Equity Crowdfunding Dynamics	4
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters	4
About the lives and times of extraordinary entrepreneurs: The methodological contribution of autobiographies to the life course theory of entrepreneurship	4
A new business ecosystem for SMEs development in China: Key-node industry and industrial net	4
Bourdieusian and resource-based perspectives on ethnic minority microbusinesses: The construction of a culture-induced entrepreneurship model	4
Psychological capital and emotions on “surviving” or “thriving” during uncertainty: Evidence from women entrepreneurs	4
Entrepreneurship, age, and social value creation: A constraint-based individual perspective	4
Measuring workplace innovation: Scale development	4
A guide to becoming green: Insights from angel investors developing sustainability-specific knowledge	4
The family business CEO: A review of insights and opportunities for advancement	4
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates	4