Journal of Small Business Management

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context134
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding107
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes64
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises52
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance51
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents44
The paths leading to harmonious and obsessive entrepreneurial passion42
Microfoundations of entrepreneurial leadership: Successful women entrepreneurs in a developing economy39
Financial literacy in SMEs: A systematic literature review and a framework for further inquiry38
The role of flexibility, digitalization, and crisis response strategy for SMEs: Case of COVID-1938
The female role model tactic: Theorizing change in tech entrepreneurship35
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery35
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates31
I make my own rules: The role of rule-breaking and ethics in driving entrepreneurial intention and involvement31
Achieving high international market performance via simple vs complex configuration of international managerial network ties: A set theoretic approach across two countries30
The power of family firm image in rewards-based crowdfunding30
External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England29
Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance27
From belief to action: How constructive rule beliefs influence rule-breaking in entrepreneurial settings26
Business model innovation and SME performance and performance variability: The role of CEO persistence26
Understanding micro-level resilience enactment of everyday entrepreneurs under threat25
He-said, she-said: A family science and gendered perspective of communication in small family businesses25
The impact of startup subsidies on survival, growth, and stakeholder value25
Intersectional dimensions of entrepreneurship among immigrant Hispanic women25
Social innovation in Saudi Arabia: The role of entrepreneurs’ spirituality, ego resilience and alertness24
Choice or chance: How successful entrepreneurs talk about luck24
Origin of Korean entrepreneurship23
Unconventional philosophies and practices: Vietnamese family firm performance in multiple countries22
Exploring the benefits and risks of displayed passion in entrepreneurial pitches21
Eco-innovations in family SMEs: Understanding the role of financial performance satisfaction21
Contextualizing talent management: A practice-based study of Turkish SMEs and large organizations19
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda19
Enhancing digital innovation in developing countries: Organizational improvisation and resource constraints in digital entrepreneurial firms19
Hybrid entrepreneurs: The value of experience19
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 review17
Can playing defense yield gains? Examining the relationships among regulatory focus, innovation, and SME performance17
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation16
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education16
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?16
Lessons on small business resilience15
The process of growing in small firms: Exploring dialectic adjustments to nonroutine disruption15
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications15
Agility and improvisation in Ontario’s craft breweries: Capabilities for constraints-based innovation14
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa14
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms14
What we say = what we think? How implicit beliefs shape nascent entrepreneurial behavior14
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters14
The gendered art of the pitch: How entrepreneurs’ gender identity in roadshows affects financing performance13
Building strategic human capital resources: The effects of strategic entrepreneurship on employee recruitment and retention13
Making the case for digital transformation: Digital entrepreneurship and on-demand service innovation13
Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance13
Family firms’ survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity13
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review13
The implications of crypto hacker attacks on financing new ventures13
The Effect of Online Discussion Boards on Equity Crowdfunding Dynamics13
The spectrum of perceived uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: Impacts on effectuation13
Life satisfaction of family business members: The role of socioemotional wealth goals and psychological functioning12
R&D investment, innovation, and export performance: An analysis of SME and large firms12
The phantom push: a reevaluation of necessity entrepreneurship12
Serial entrepreneurs: A review of literature and guidance for future research12
Dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurship—DyCE: A new domain for theoretical and empirical research12
Pre-start-up internationalization mindsets trigger action12
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