OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 36. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	161
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	95
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	95
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	92
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	90
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	87
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	84
Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation	83
Rooted in place and potential to change: how sense of place and openness to change influence community entrepreneurship intentions	76
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	74
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	60
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	59
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	59
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	55
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	54
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	52
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	52
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	51
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	50
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	50
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	50
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	48
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	45
The entrepreneurial creation of private institutions: exchange platform innovations and economic development	45
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	44

The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	43
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	42
Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research	42
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	41
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	41
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size	40
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	39
How humiliation reconstructs (or ruins) the entrepreneurial self	39
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	39
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	37
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	37
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	36
The adoption of artificial intelligence methods in entrepreneurship research: current state and pathways forward	36
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	36