OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 31. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	293
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	108
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	102
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	101
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	95
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	85
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	71
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	65
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	57
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	56
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	53
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	53
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	52
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	50
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	49
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	46
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	45
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	43
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	43
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	40
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	39
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	39
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	39
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	38
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	38

Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	37
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	37
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	33
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	32
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	32
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	31