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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes	133
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises	123
Re-examining the team reflexivity–innovation relationship: The roles of team resilience and team dominant functional diversity	90
Entrepreneurship at the edge of informality and digitalization: Mapping hybrid business models in underinstitutionalized contexts	70
Diagnostic control systems and boundary systems: Pathway or barrier to SMEs’ entrepreneurial success	66
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance	65
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery	54
Big data driven supply chains in SMEs: The role of industry digitalization	54
The role of flexibility, digitalization, and crisis response strategy for SMEs: Case of COVID-19	54
Microfoundations of entrepreneurial leadership: Successful women entrepreneurs in a developing economy	46
The paths leading to harmonious and obsessive entrepreneurial passion	45
External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England	44
From belief to action: How constructive rule beliefs influence rule-breaking in entrepreneurial settings	42
Cultivating social entrepreneurs: Shaping self-evaluations for positive social change in impact careers	37
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates	36
The female role model tactic: Theorizing change in tech entrepreneurship	34
The power of family firm image in rewards-based crowdfunding	32
Business model innovation and SME performance and performance variability: The role of CEO persistence	32
I make my own rules: The role of rule-breaking and ethics in driving entrepreneurial intention and involvement	32
Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance	30
Achieving high international market performance via simple vs complex configuration of international managerial network ties: A set theoretic approach across two countries	30
He-said, she-said: A family science and gendered perspective of communication in small family businesses	29
The antecedents of family-centered performance in SME family firms: An organizational positivity perspective	28
Multi-level entrepreneurial ecosystem framework: Founder, incubator, and country characteristics for start-up performance	27
A RICH resilience capability portfolio: Linking resiliency to strategic entrepreneurship behavior	26

Intersectional dimensions of entrepreneurship among immigrant Hispanic women	26
Origin of Korean entrepreneurship	24
Choice or chance: How successful entrepreneurs talk about luck	24
The impact of startup subsidies on survival, growth, and stakeholder value	24
Unconventional philosophies and practices: Vietnamese family firm performance in multiple countries	23
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	21
Eco-innovations in family SMEs: Understanding the role of financial performance satisfaction	21
Hybrid entrepreneurs: The value of experience	21
Enhancing digital innovation in developing countries: Organizational improvisation and resource constraints in digital entrepreneurial firms	21
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	20
Vision communication in turbulent times: How startup leaders navigate dynamic environments	19
Leverage cyclicality and the role of collateral: A comparative study of SMEs and large firms	19
The impact of distance on social capital in high-tech born global companies	19
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation	18
Government finance, loans, and guarantees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (2000–2021): A systematic review	18
Lessons on small business resilience	18
A psychological rating instrument: The entrepreneurial pitching success scale and its reliability and validity	18
Can playing defense yield gains? Examining the relationships among regulatory focus, innovation, and SME performance	18
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?	17
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications	17
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa	17
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education	17
The process of growing in small firms: Exploring dialectic adjustments to nonroutine disruption	17
Agility and improvisation in Ontario’s craft breweries: Capabilities for constraints-based innovation	16
Family firms’ survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity	16
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms	16
Making the case for digital transformation: Digital entrepreneurship and on-demand service innovation	16
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters	16
The gendered art of the pitch: How entrepreneurs’ gender identity in roadshows affects financing performance	15
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review	15
The implications of crypto hacker attacks on financing new ventures	15
The short- and long-term influences of personal values in predicting new venture creation	15
R&D investment, innovation, and export performance: An analysis of SME and large firms	14
Building strategic human capital resources: The effects of strategic entrepreneurship on employee recruitment and retention	14
Peer-to-peer lending: Exploring borrowers’ motivations and expectations	13
The phantom push: a reevaluation of necessity entrepreneurship	13
Clearing the hurdles: Revisiting the under-performance hypothesis for women-led VC funded firms	13
Getting to the one: Prioritizing an idea set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics	13
Dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurship—DyCE: A new domain for theoretical and empirical research	13
Applicant attraction to new ventures: The combined effects of entrepreneurs’ physical attractiveness and gender	12
Mobilizing potential slack and firm performance: Evidence from French SMEs before and during the COVID-19 period	12
FsQCA in entrepreneurship research: Opportunities and best practices	12
Life satisfaction of family business members: The role of socioemotional wealth goals and psychological functioning	12
Resilience building among small businesses in low-income neighborhoods	11
It’s “time” to “talk” about entrepreneurial alertness	11
Financing women entrepreneurship in the developing world: An fsQCA analysis of informal financing schemes	11
Entrepreneurs as influencers: The role of female entrepreneurs in small business development	11
Angel time horizon and industry preferences: The moderating role of personal wealth	11
Exploring innovation ecosystems to facilitate the adoption of sustainable entrepreneurship: Looking beyond the Western World	11

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