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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes	116
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents	114
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises	114
The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context	107
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding	95
Lead user innovation and entrepreneurship: Analyzing the current state of research	93
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance	88
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery	86
The role of flexibility, digitalization, and crisis response strategy for SMEs: Case of COVID-19	84
Culture values and entrepreneurial innovativeness: A comparative study of Malaysian ethnic entrepreneurs	65
Transitional entrepreneurship: Elevating research into marginalized entrepreneurs	60
Financial literacy in SMEs: A systematic literature review and a framework for further inquiry	58
The paths leading to harmonious and obsessive entrepreneurial passion	57
The female role model tactic: Theorizing change in tech entrepreneurship	47
The power of family firm image in rewards-based crowdfunding	44
Does prior experience matter? A meta-analysis of the relationship between prior experience of entrepreneurs and firm performance	44
Business model innovation and SME performance and performance variability: The role of CEO persistence	39
He-said, she-said: A family science and gendered perspective of communication in small family businesses	37
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates	35
Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance	33
From belief to action: How constructive rule beliefs influence rule-breaking in entrepreneurial settings	32
External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England	32
Achieving high international market performance via simple vs complex configuration of international managerial network ties: A set theoretic approach across two countries	32
Choice or chance: How successful entrepreneurs talk about luck	30
Women entrepreneurship in developing economies: A gender-based growth model	30

Social innovation in Saudi Arabia: The role of entrepreneurs’ spirituality, ego resilience and alertness	29
The impact of startup subsidies on survival, growth, and stakeholder value	29
Intersectional dimensions of entrepreneurship among immigrant Hispanic women	28
Understanding micro-level resilience enactment of everyday entrepreneurs under threat	27
Open innovation in SMEs: A process view towards business model innovation	27
Origin of Korean entrepreneurship	27
Eco-innovations in family SMEs: Understanding the role of financial performance satisfaction	26
Unconventional philosophies and practices: Vietnamese family firm performance in multiple countries	26
CEO succession game in family firms: Owners vs. advisors	25
Hybrid entrepreneurs: The value of experience	24
Enhancing digital innovation in developing countries: Organizational improvisation and resource constraints in digital entrepreneurial firms	22
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	22
Forced transgenerational succession: Insights from a South African family business	21
Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior	21
Government finance, loans, and guarantees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (2000–2021): A systematic review	21
Cross-level effects of entrepreneurial orientation and ambidexterity on the resilience of small business owners	21
Can playing defense yield gains? Examining the relationships among regulatory focus, innovation, and SME performance	21
Exploring the benefits and risks of displayed passion in entrepreneurial pitches	21
Lessons on small business resilience	20
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation	20
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications	20
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?	18
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education	18
Gender role congruity and crowdfunding success	17
Making the case for digital transformation: Digital entrepreneurship and on-demand service innovation	17
The process of growing in small firms: Exploring dialectic adjustments to nonroutine disruption	17
Family firms’ survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity	17
What we say = what we think? How implicit beliefs shape nascent entrepreneurial behavior	15
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters	15
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms	15
The spectrum of perceived uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: Impacts on effectuation	14
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa	14
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review	14
Agility and improvisation in Ontario’s craft breweries: Capabilities for constraints-based innovation	14
The Effect of Online Discussion Boards on Equity Crowdfunding Dynamics	13
Pre-start-up internationalization mindsets trigger action	13
Building strategic human capital resources: The effects of strategic entrepreneurship on employee recruitment and retention	13
Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance	13
Serial entrepreneurs: A review of literature and guidance for future research	13
R&D investment, innovation, and export performance: An analysis of SME and large firms	13
Life satisfaction of family business members: The role of socioemotional wealth goals and psychological functioning	13
Peer-to-peer lending: Exploring borrowers’ motivations and expectations	12
Getting to the one: Prioritizing an idea set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics	12
The phantom push: a reevaluation of necessity entrepreneurship	12
Labor productivity response of the micro-and-small-firm sector to business entries and exits	12
Clearing the hurdles: Revisiting the under-performance hypothesis for women-led VC funded firms	11
Valuing failure: An experiment of VC reactions to an entrepreneur’s record of business creation	11
Mobilizing potential slack and firm performance: Evidence from French SMEs before and during the COVID-19 period	11
Applicant attraction to new ventures: The combined effects of entrepreneurs’ physical attractiveness and gender	11
Resilience building among small businesses in low-income neighborhoods	10

Angel time horizon and industry preferences: The moderating role of personal wealth	10
Exploring innovation ecosystems to facilitate the adoption of sustainable entrepreneurship: Looking beyond the Western World	10
Exploring the effects of institutional logics on entrepreneurial opportunity evaluations in emerging economies	10
Financing women entrepreneurship in the developing world: An fsQCA analysis of informal financing schemes	10
It’s “time” to “talk” about entrepreneurial alertness	10
FsQCA in entrepreneurship research: Opportunities and best practices	10
The prediction of future cash flow for UK private companies	10
Building entrepreneurship research for impact: Scope, phenomenon, and translation	10
A systematic literature review on SME financing: Trends and future directions	10
Equity split evolution in entrepreneurial teams: Assessing financial contributions and human capital	10
Digital communities of inquiry: How online communities support entrepreneurial opportunity development	9
Artificial intelligence machines as relational nonhuman actors in entrepreneurial teams	9
Signaling theory in entrepreneurial fundraising and crowdfunding research	9
From athletes to entrepreneurs: Participation in youth sports as a precursor to future business endeavors	9
Entrepreneurial identity formation in family firms: the transgenerational impact of parents’ fear of failure	9
A guide to becoming green: Insights from angel investors developing sustainability-specific knowledge	8
Industry-relatedness, geographic proximity and strategic decisions of corporate and independent venture capital-backed companies	8
Entrepreneurial alertness: Exploring its psychological antecedents and effects on firm outcomes	8
Assessing the importance of managerial and entrepreneurial experience in entrepreneurial training programs	8
Decoding decision-making: The interplay of cognitive processes and working capital management constraints in new ventures	7
Entrepreneurial challenges of COVID-19: Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis	7
The role of board design in small-firm crisis response	7
Why I persist while others leave? Investigating the path from passion to persistence in entrepreneurship	7
Effectuation processes of social media and student entrepreneurs in South Korea	7
Family firm entrepreneurship: An experimental study	7
Applying resource-based theory to social value creation: A conceptual model of contributive advantage	6
Heroes of the Green Room – How able successors revitalize and reinvent family firms	6
Owner-manager emotions and strategic responses of small family businesses to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
How university business incubation supports entrepreneurs in technology-based and creative industries: A comparative study	6
The impact of explorative and exploitative collaborations on SMEs innovative performance	6
Opening the black box of venture capitalists’ evaluation of entrepreneurial teams	6
Are bricoleurs more satisfied? How bricolage affects entrepreneur job satisfaction among experienced versus novice entrepreneurs	6
Party platforms and entrepreneurial pathways: Exploring the impact of political parties on venture formation	6
The pre-foundation evolution of proactiveness in born global and non-born global USOs	6
Challenges for growing SMEs: A managerial perspective	6
Decoding evidence-based entrepreneurship: A systematic review of meta-analytic choices and reporting	6
Women entrepreneurs’ negotiation of the work–family balance in patriarchal society	6
“Hasta la vista, baby” – will machine learning terminate human literature reviews in entrepreneurship?	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	5
The importance of literature reviews in small business and entrepreneurship research	5
Linking green marketing and SMEs performance: A psychometric meta-analysis	5
How the tone of mass media news affects pledge amounts in reward crowdfunding campaigns	5
How frugal innovation and inclusive business are linked to tackle low-income markets	5
“Living the dream” – a psychoanalytical exploration of franchisee autonomy	5
How does a subsequent entrepreneurship career choice develop? A set-theoretic analysis testing hope theory	4
The family business CEO: A review of insights and opportunities for advancement	4
International new ventures: Beyond definitional debates to advancing the cornerstone of international entrepreneurship	4
Bourdieusian and resource-based perspectives on ethnic minority microbusinesses: The construction of a culture-induced entrepreneurship model	4
Generative artificial intelligence use and configurational pathways to innovation performance in start-ups	4
A new business ecosystem for SMEs development in China: Key-node industry and industrial net	4
Entrepreneurial mindset shift and the role of cycles of learning	4
Bricolage and new-venture performance: conditions of digitalization, causation, and effectuation	4
Loan size concentration under the UK enterprise finance guarantee scheme and SME access to finance	4
Beyond educating students about business failure: The role of optimism training and hope	4
Attracting nonfamily applicants to the family firm: A signaling theory approach	4
Digital marketing in SMEs via data-driven strategies: Reviewing the current state of research	4
Exploring the role of managerial and organizational capabilities for the inbound internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises	4
Racial disparities in the small business loan market	4
Academics and entrepreneurs: Enablers of hybrid identity centrality among university researchers	4
Toward a theory of entrepreneurial orientation and technology fit in SMEs	4
The board as a guide for learning in growing SMEs	4
The new normal: The status quo of AI adoption in SMEs	4