Small Business Economics

Article	Citations
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	280
Gender differences in entrepreneurial equity financing—a systematic literature review	101
European SMEs’ growth: the role of market-based finance and public financial support	95
Financial Access and Entrepreneurship by Gender: Evidence from Rural India	94
The role of institutions in supporting SME financing through the trade credit channel: an empirical analysis of Italian provinces	86
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	83
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	79
The role of cognitive legitimacy in social entrepreneurship: a multilevel analysis	71
The psychological strain of becoming self-employed: a longitudinal investigation of honeymoon-hangover effects	69
Time after time: exploring the role of CSR on employees’ long-lasting working relationships in Italy	64
Heterogeneity and state dependence in firms’ access to bank credit	63
Innovation ambidexterity, resource configuration and firm growth: is smallness a liability or an asset?	61
Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment	60
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	57
Truth, knowledge, and entrepreneurship theory: arguments for a rationalist scientific epistemology	50
Embracing the “fail fast and learn fast” mindset: conceptualizing learning from failure in knowledge-intensive SMEs	47
When do firms learn? Learning before versus after exporting	47
Do institutional dimensions matter at different stages of the entrepreneurial process? A multi-country study	45
Angel investors: the impact of regret from missed opportunities	45
Estimating the innovation benefits of first-mover and second-mover strategies when micro-businesses adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning	45
Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	45
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	43
The persistence of family firms: How does performance threshold affect family firm exit?	42
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	42
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	41

Colors and Entrepreneurial Activities: An Exploratory Study	40
Educational diversity and work experience paths towards entrepreneurship	39
International linkages between entrepreneurial ecosystems: understanding the role of corporate accelerators	39
“All that glitters is not gold!”: The (Unexplored) Determinants of Equity Crowdfunding	37
Cognitive financial constraints and firm growth	37
Trans-contextual work: doing entrepreneurial contexts in the periphery	35
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	34
The protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: inside the black box	34
Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets	33
SME participation in research grant consortia—the emergence of coordinated attention in collaborative innovation	32
High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth	30
The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance	30
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	30
Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience	29
From independent inventor to inventor entrepreneur: an application of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship	29
Different outcomes for different founders? Local organizational sponsorship and entrepreneurial finance	28
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities: evidence from Brazil	27
Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs	27
Remittances, ethnic diversity, and entrepreneurship in developing countries	27
Quid pro quota: a cross-country study on the impacts of immigration quotas on early-stage entrepreneurship	27
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	26
Do exploration and exploitation in university research drive early-stage equity financing of university spin-offs?	26
Is sustainable entrepreneurship profitable? ESG disclosure and the financial performance of SMEs	26
Assessing the impact of the EIB’s intermediated lending to SMEs during funding shocks	26
Enablers of exit through trade sale: the case of early-stage research-based spin-offs	26
Social capital and small informal business productivity: the mediating roles of financing and customer relationships	25
Correction to: Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs	25
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes	25
Turmoil over the crisis: innovation capabilities and firm exit	25
Preparing fertile ground: how does the quality of business environments affect MSE growth?	24
Historiography and the excavation of nascent business venturing	24
Graduates of venture creation programs – where do they apply their entrepreneurial competencies?	23
A contingency model of employees’ turnover intent in young ventures	23
How scientists interpret and address funding criteria: value creation and undesirable side effects	23
It is not because it is offered that it is used: an investigation into firm-level determinants of use intensity of buffering services in science parks	22
You are only as strong as your weakest link: Founder and community social capital and start-up survival	21
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation	21
Coping with high decline: firms’ resilience to adversity	21
Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation	21
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles	21
Female self-employment: prevalence and performance effects of having a high-income spouse	21
Does local government corruption inhibit entrepreneurship?	21
Entrepreneurial finance and regional ecosystem emergence	21
COVID-19 and the global venture capital landscape	20
Local banking development and SME conservative financing policy. Does bank branch density matter?	20
Does religion matter to angels? Exploring the influence of religion in entrepreneurial investor decision-making	20
Entrepreneurial teams and gender roles: evidence from equity crowdfunding achievement	20
Financial and social sustainability in the European microfinance sector	20
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	20
Questions worth asking for futures worth making: an effectual approach	20

Missing links of knowledge spillover effects on firm intensity and regional development	20
Gender productivity gap: does gender-equal ownership compensate for female entrepreneurs’ lack of prior industry experience?	20
Does competition from informal firms hurt job creation by formal manufacturing SMEs in developing and emerging countries? Evidence using firm-level survey data	20
Creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem in a ‘knowledge desert’: the role of international connectivity and public institutional support	19
Crowdfunding investors, intermediaries and risky entrepreneurs	19
Did the Paycheck Protection Program and Economic Injury Disaster Loan Program get disbursed to minority communities in the early stages of COVID-19?	19
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies	19
Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy	19
Beware the community type: engagement and growth in core vs. open online communities	19
Proximity and inter-firm corruption: A transaction cost approach	19
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems	19
Making, unmaking and remaking of context in entrepreneurial identity construction and experiences: a comparative analysis between Türkiye and the Netherlands	19
Soft and hard information in equity crowdfunding: network effects in the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance	19
Contextualizing small business resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from small business owner-managers	18
What conditions favor high-potential entrepreneurship? Unpacking the nexus between the industrial structure and startup typologies	18
The evolution of the global digital platform economy: 1971–2021	18
Levels of necessity of entrepreneurial ecosystems elements	18
Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms	17
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	17
Cultural diversity, social integration, and migrant entrepreneurship—evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey	17
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	17
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	17
I believe I can fly: how target venture CEO overconfidence affects acquisition completion	17
Only the brave: improving self-rationing efficiency among discouraged Swiss SMEs	17
Entrepreneurial ecosystem as a spatially fluid concept: new territorial perspectives on entrepreneurship	17
Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban development	17
Are there wages from “sin”? Working conditions spillover from paying bribe in Vietnam	17
Spatial variations in financial constraints of SMEs—evidence from firm-level estimates of investment-cash flow sensitivities in Sweden	16
The relationship between business regulation and nascent and young business entrepreneurship revisited	16
Recovery and exit of zombie firms in Portugal	16
Greening the future: how venture capital nurtures cleantech companies’ growth in Europe	16
Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective	16
Women in the boardroom: a bottom–up approach to the trickle-down effect	16
The role of accelerator programmes on the capital structure of start-ups	15
Enter the Prince of Denmark: Entrepreneurship for a Resilient and Sustainable Economy	15
The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses	14
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	14
Small business stories in the formation of enterprise policy: a narrative policy analysis of the UK Bolton Committee	14
Hiring opportunities for new firms and the business cycle	14
Stickiness of entrepreneurs: an exploratory study of migration in two mid-sized US cities	14
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	14
Digital innovation in family firms: The roles of non-family managers and transgenerational control intentions	14
Persistence in firm growth: inference from conditional quantile transition matrices	14
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	14
Discrimination in lending? Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program	13
An empirical examination of firm growth in the MENA region through the lens of Gibrat’s law	13
A Quantum view of entrepreneurial opportunity: moving beyond the Discovery and Creation views	13
Does digitalization sufficiently empower female entrepreneurs? Evidence from their online gender identities and crowdfunding performance	13
Gender attitudes and business venturing in low gender egalitarianism culture: a study of Egypt and Jordan	13
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	13
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms	13
Is there a gender gap in equity-based crowdfunding?	13
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	13
The dynamic impact of inter-firm network agreements	13
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	13
A ‘deviant men’ theory of business expectations in nascent entrepreneurs	13
Unveiling the role of entrepreneurial teams in the equity crowdfunding journey	13
Entry-regulation and corruption: grease or sand in the wheels of entrepreneurship? Fresh evidence according to entrepreneurial motives	13
Firms’ borrowing costs and neighbors’ flood risk	12
Entrepreneur fund-seeking: toward a theory of funding fit in the era of equity crowdfunding	12
Venture creation in the aftermath of COVID-19: The impact of US governor party affiliation and discretion	12
Bank failures, local business dynamics, and government policy	12
Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship	12
Family firm heterogeneity and patenting. Revising the role of size and age	12
Being your own boss and bossing others: the moderating effect of managing others on work meaning and autonomy for the self-employed and employees	12
Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs	12
The impact of entrepreneurship research on other academic fields	12
The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises	11
Political participation and new venture decentralization: an attention-based view	11
Correction: Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation	11
Learning to ride the high growth “Rollercoaster”: the role of publicly funded business accelerator programmes	11
Correction to: A second chance for failed entrepreneurs: a good idea?	11
Overcoming the ability-willingness paradox in small family firms’ collaborations	11
Does climate risk affect entrepreneurial growth aspirations? The moderating effects of gender and solo-founded ventures	11
Was Robert Gibrat right? A test based on the graphical model methodology	11
Matching entrepreneurs with coaches to ignite entrepreneurial learning	11
The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs	11
Correction to: The Three-Case Argument against the Moral Justificatory Significance of Basic Desert	11
Pre-entry experience, knowledge inheritance, and entrepreneurial resource mobilization	11
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	11

Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	10
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	10
Correction: Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures	10
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	10
The well-being of women entrepreneurs: the role of gender inequality and gender roles	10
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	10
The contribution of board experience to opportunity development in high-tech ventures	10
Financing constraints and SME growth: the suppression effect of cost-saving management innovations	10
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	10
Digital economic activity and resilience for metros and small businesses during Covid-19	10
“Remembering David J Storey, a pioneer of the entrepreneurship field”	10
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture	9
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	9
Education, social identity and self-employment over time: evidence from a developing country	9
Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda	9
Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups	9
Artificial intelligence and firm growth — catch-up processes of SMEs through integrating AI into their knowledge bases	8
The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries	8
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	8
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	8
Social network research in the family business literature: a review and integration	8
Formal and informal entrepreneurship: a cross-country policy perspective	8
The creation of digital innovative start-ups: the role of digital knowledge spillovers and digital skill endowment	8
Causal effects of a tax incentive on SME capital investment	8
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy	8
Culture and social entrepreneurship: the role of value-practice misalignment	8
Innovation and borrower discouragement in SMEs	7
Can corporate social responsibility mitigate the liability of newness? Evidence from China	7
What increases the urban–rural gap in firm entry rates?	7
Small business economics journal editor of the year award	7
The Legacy of Zoltan J. Acs	7
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	7
Signalling entrepreneurs’ credibility and project quality for crowdfunding success: cases from the Kickstarter and Indiegogo environments	7
Does the entrepreneurial state crowd out entrepreneurship?	7
Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality	7
Gender and innovation at the US National Institutes of Health	7
Working from home: small business performance and the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	7
Opening entrepreneurial ecosystem black boxes	7
Adolescent entrepreneurial learning ecosystem and a tech entrepreneurial career—inspiration from theblack swan stories	7
Artificial intelligence and radical innovation: an opportunity for all companies?	7
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs	7
Paradoxes of accelerator programs and new venture performance: Do varieties of experiences make a difference?	6
The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective	6
The economics of PIPEs, revisited	6
A fatigue model of social venturing	6
Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms	6
Whirlwind model of entrepreneurial ecosystem path dependence	6
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	6
A social milieu perspective of parental influence on adolescents’ entrepreneurial and employment intentions	6
Re-viewing entrepreneurial universities through alumni engagement	6
The angels’ share hypothesis in new firms	6
Risk of burnout in French entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 crisis	6
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	6
After successful fundraising: how overfunding and category spanning affect the release and audience-perceived quality of crowdfunded products	6
Ethnic diversity in SME business teams: generating employment growth through digitalisation, innovation, and exporting	6
Navigating challenges: lean inventory management and SMEs performance during the COVID-19 crisis and beyond	6
Graduation of initial public offering firms from junior stock markets: evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange	6
Who shuns entrepreneurship journals? Why? And what should we do about it?	6
Correction to: The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms	6
The external effects of offshoring on job security in SMEs	6
Does working at a start-up pay off?	6
Advancing sustainable entrepreneurial universities: sustainability transformations of university business incubators in Germany	6
Organizing transactions between entrepreneurs and human capital resources under Knightian uncertainty	6
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an Asian perspective	6
‘In the company of cheerful ladies’: whether female entrepreneurs are more productive?	6
Firm growth and financial constraints: evidence from a policy-based loan program	6
Productivity growth over the business cycle: cleansing effects of recessions	6
Business failure and institutions in entrepreneurship: a systematic review and research agenda	6
Linking biases and paradoxes in the family entrepreneurship context: an integrative framework for future research	6
The evolution of the field of family business research over a decade (2012–2022)	5
Narcissism, workaholism, family support and new venture performance: a moderated mediation model	5
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	5
Does market power drive business model innovation? Evidence from Italian family manufacturing firms	5
Decision-making style in entrepreneurial finance and growth	5
Public sector entrepreneurship: an integrative review	5
Financial performance of new circular economy companies in rural settings	5
Franchise ownership types and noneconomic performance among quick service restaurants: do family operated franchises receive fewer health code violations?	5
Keeping pace with the digital transformation — exploring the digital orientation of SMEs	5
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	5
How much state ownership do hybrid firms need for better performance?	5
Capacity constraints as a trigger for high growth	5
Founder affiliations: jobseeker reactions and impact on employee recruitment by start-up ventures	5
What do we know about the choices of entrepreneurs before the equity crowdfunding campaign?	5
Entrepreneurs’ impatience and digital technologies	5
Refugee entrepreneurship motivations in Sweden and Germany: a comparative case study	5
Unemployment benefits, entrepreneurship policies, and new business creation	4
Different response paths to organizational resilience	4
We are in this together: leading resource exchange between entrepreneurial ecosystems to strategically steer their development	4
Entrepreneurship in the twenty-first century	4
Specifying the role of religion in entrepreneurial action: a cognitive perspective	4
Correction: The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	4
Look in to look out: strategy and family business identity during COVID-19	4
Distinguishing unpredictability from uncertainty in entrepreneurial action theory	4
Right of association and new business entry: country-level evidence from the market sector	4