OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 33. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	117
Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation	115
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	96
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	71
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	67
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	63
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	62
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	60
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	60
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	59
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	58
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	53
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	53
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	51
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	51
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	50
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	43
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	43
Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research	40
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	40
The entrepreneurial creation of private institutions: exchange platform innovations and economic development	39
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	39
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	38
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	38
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	38

AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	36
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	36
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	36
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	35
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size	34
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	34
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	34
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	33
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	33
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	33