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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	310
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	129
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	107
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	104
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	72
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	71
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	61
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	58
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	54
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	52
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	51
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	48
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	48
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	46
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	46
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	43
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	43
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	41
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	41
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	41
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	39
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	38
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	36
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	35
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	35

Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	34
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	32
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	31
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	31
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	31
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	31
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	31
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	31
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	31