OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 35. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	138
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	83
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	81
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	81
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	78
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	73
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	72
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	70
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	68
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	68
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	68
Rooted in place and potential to change: how sense of place and openness to change influence community entrepreneurship intentions	54
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	50
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	50
Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation	50
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	49
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	48
The entrepreneurial creation of private institutions: exchange platform innovations and economic development	47
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	47
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	44
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	43
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	41
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	41
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	40
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	40

Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research	40
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	40
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	40
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	39
How humiliation reconstructs (or ruins) the entrepreneurial self	37
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	37
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	36
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	35
Entrepreneurial stakeholder enrollment: discriminating alignment under intersubjective uncertainty	35
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	35
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	35