Journal of Small Business Management

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Small Business Management is 13. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents153
The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context107
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance67
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes63
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises49
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding48
Microfoundations of entrepreneurial leadership: Successful women entrepreneurs in a developing economy43
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery42
Financial literacy in SMEs: A systematic literature review and a framework for further inquiry39
The role of flexibility, digitalization, and crisis response strategy for SMEs: Case of COVID-1938
The paths leading to harmonious and obsessive entrepreneurial passion38
I make my own rules: The role of rule-breaking and ethics in driving entrepreneurial intention and involvement37
The female role model tactic: Theorizing change in tech entrepreneurship36
He-said, she-said: A family science and gendered perspective of communication in small family businesses34
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates31
Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance30
External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England29
Business model innovation and SME performance and performance variability: The role of CEO persistence27
From belief to action: How constructive rule beliefs influence rule-breaking in entrepreneurial settings27
The power of family firm image in rewards-based crowdfunding26
Choice or chance: How successful entrepreneurs talk about luck26
Achieving high international market performance via simple vs complex configuration of international managerial network ties: A set theoretic approach across two countries26
The impact of startup subsidies on survival, growth, and stakeholder value26
Social innovation in Saudi Arabia: The role of entrepreneurs’ spirituality, ego resilience and alertness25
Intersectional dimensions of entrepreneurship among immigrant Hispanic women25
Understanding micro-level resilience enactment of everyday entrepreneurs under threat24
Hybrid entrepreneurs: The value of experience23
Origin of Korean entrepreneurship23
Contextualizing talent management: A practice-based study of Turkish SMEs and large organizations22
Exploring the benefits and risks of displayed passion in entrepreneurial pitches22
Unconventional philosophies and practices: Vietnamese family firm performance in multiple countries21
Eco-innovations in family SMEs: Understanding the role of financial performance satisfaction21
Enhancing digital innovation in developing countries: Organizational improvisation and resource constraints in digital entrepreneurial firms21
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda20
Can playing defense yield gains? Examining the relationships among regulatory focus, innovation, and SME performance18
Cross-level effects of entrepreneurial orientation and ambidexterity on the resilience of small business owners18
Government finance, loans, and guarantees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (2000–2021): A systematic review18
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications17
Lessons on small business resilience17
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation16
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?16
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education16
Agility and improvisation in Ontario’s craft breweries: Capabilities for constraints-based innovation15
Making the case for digital transformation: Digital entrepreneurship and on-demand service innovation15
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review14
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters14
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms14
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa14
Family firms’ survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity14
The process of growing in small firms: Exploring dialectic adjustments to nonroutine disruption14
The spectrum of perceived uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: Impacts on effectuation13
Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance13
The phantom push: a reevaluation of necessity entrepreneurship13
The gendered art of the pitch: How entrepreneurs’ gender identity in roadshows affects financing performance13
Pre-start-up internationalization mindsets trigger action13
Dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurship—DyCE: A new domain for theoretical and empirical research13
Building strategic human capital resources: The effects of strategic entrepreneurship on employee recruitment and retention13
The Effect of Online Discussion Boards on Equity Crowdfunding Dynamics13
R&D investment, innovation, and export performance: An analysis of SME and large firms13
The implications of crypto hacker attacks on financing new ventures13
Life satisfaction of family business members: The role of socioemotional wealth goals and psychological functioning13
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