OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 32. 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.)

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	142
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	111
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	109
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	83
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	66
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	63
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	61
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	56
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	53
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	52
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	52
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	51
Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation	51
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	47
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	47
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	46
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	46
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	43
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	39
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	39
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	38
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	37
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	36
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	36
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	36

AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	34
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	33
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	33
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	33
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	33
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	33
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	32