OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Small Business Economics is 33. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	286
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	104
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	100
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	98
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	89
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	86
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	83
Innovation ambidexterity, resource configuration and firm growth: is smallness a liability or an asset?	80
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	70
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	65
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	63
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	62
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	55
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	53
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	51
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	48
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	48
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	47
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	45
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	45
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	45
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	43
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	42
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	40
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	39

A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	38
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	37
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	37
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	37
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	36
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	35
Small business economics journal editor of the year award	34
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	34