OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Small Business Management is 12. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context	113
An exploration of digital servitization business models in manufacturing SMEs	96
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes	95
Moderation in all things: Industry-university-research alliance portfolio configuration and SMEs’ innovation performance in China	79
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	71
Search behavior and decision confidence in equity crowdfunding: An information search process model perspective	70
Family firm entrepreneurship: An experimental study	69
Forced transgenerational succession: Insights from a South African family business	69
Acquihires by SMEs as a strategic response to industry digitalization	67
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation	57
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education	53
Exploring the effect of institutions on entrepreneurial ecosystems: A meta–analysis	53
Adverse retention of family talent in intrafamily succession	47
Special issue on small business financing: New actors, new opportunities, new challenges	46
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises	40
Formalization of annual performance feedback and employees’ job satisfaction in the SME context	38
About the lives and times of extraordinary entrepreneurs: The methodological contribution of autobiographies to the life course theory of entrepreneurship	38
Why do academic scientists participate in academic entrepreneurship? An empirical investigation of department context and the antecedents of entrepreneurial behavior	34
In search of creative qualitative methods to capture current entrepreneurship research challenges	33
Conditioned to care: Gender differences in entrepreneurs’ socially responsible behaviors	32
Applying resource-based theory to social value creation: A conceptual model of contributive advantage	28
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications	28
Why I persist while others leave? Investigating the path from passion to persistence in entrepreneurship	28
The role of work-to-venture role conflict on hybrid entrepreneurs’ transition into entrepreneurship	27
Lead user innovation and entrepreneurship: Analyzing the current state of research	27

The interplay of core self-evaluation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in predicting entrepreneurial orientation	27
Effectuation processes of social media and student entrepreneurs in South Korea	26
Understanding international CSR in SMEs	25
Gender and entrepreneurship: Research frameworks, barriers and opportunities for women entrepreneurship worldwide	25
The social and economic outputs of SME-GSI research collaboration in an emerging economy: An ecosystem perspective	24
The role of board design in small-firm crisis response	23
Business model redesign through effectual action in times of crisis	23
Does intergenerational leadership hinder the realization of innovation potential? A resource orchestration perspective	22
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding	22
Lessons on small business resilience	22
Gendered identity: Narratives from behind the entrepreneurial pitch	21
Decoding decision-making: The interplay of cognitive processes and working capital management constraints in new ventures	21
How small business owners navigate stress for improved performance: Building psychological capital through peer interactions	21
Transforming entrepreneurial orientation into performance in family SMEs: Are nonfamily CEOs better than family CEOs?	20
Is “accredited crowdfunding” a lemons market? Evidence from 506(c) filings	20
Resource reconfiguration by surviving SMEs in a disrupted industry	20
Performance implications of technological uncertainty, age, and size for small businesses	19
Knowledge management practices and innovation: A deliberate innovation management model for SMEs	19
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance	19
Gender role congruity and crowdfunding success	18
Assessing the importance of managerial and entrepreneurial experience in entrepreneurial training programs	17
“Yes and. . ., but wait. . ., heck no!”: A socially situated cognitive approach towards understanding how startup entrepreneurs process critical feedback	17
Entrepreneurial challenges of COVID-19: Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis	17
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents	17
Business model scaling and growth hacking in digital entrepreneurship	16
Improving the performance of governmental venture capital firms: Reforms at Shenzhen Capital Group	16
The room where it happened: Conversation analysis of entrepreneur meetups	16
Unpacking entrepreneurial alertness: How character matters for entrepreneurial thinking	16
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?	16
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery	15
Who is willing to be rich and king? Founder-CEOs’ IPO and M&A intentions	15
How micro-firms innovate: A qualitative study on the role of networks	14
The Journal of Small Business Management: A bibliometric overview of 1996–2019	14
More than capital? Transaction costs, trade-offs, and value for small businesses in novel funding transactions	14
Causal cognitive mapping in the entrepreneurial cognition field: A comparison of two alternative methods	14
Opening the black box of venture capitalists’ evaluation of entrepreneurial teams	14
“Hasta la vista, baby” – will machine learning terminate human literature reviews in entrepreneurship?	14
What we say = what we think? How implicit beliefs shape nascent entrepreneurial behavior	13
When owner, family, and community roles intertwine: Examining entrepreneurs’ persistence decisions and the gender effect	13
Gestation in new technology ventures: Causal brakes and effectual pedals	13
Public administration and new venture startups: The association between economic development and the role of bureaucracy in startup activity	13
New ventures going global: Cognition and context	13
Transitional entrepreneurship: Elevating research into marginalized entrepreneurs	12
Board–TMT task conflict: The impact on shared strategic vision and moderating effect of shared leadership	12
Founders’ education, social capital, and their interplay in the intensity of new-venture internationalization	12
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa	12
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms	12