Small Business Economics

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	307
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	125
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	105
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	91
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	72
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	62
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	59
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	56
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	51
Is the German Mittelstand more resistant to crises?	51
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	51
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	47
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	46
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	44
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	43
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	43
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	43
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	42
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	40
Relationship lending and the use of trade credit: the role of relational capital and private information	38
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	37
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	36
Small matching grants for women entrepreneurs: lessons from the past recession	35
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	35
Friend or foe? Co-opetition and entrepreneurial networking	35

Does mobile money enable women-owned businesses to invest? Firm-level evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	33
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	32
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	31
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	31
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	30
Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	30
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	29
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	29
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	29
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	29
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related policies on new firm creation: an analysis of the Italian case	29
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	29
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	29
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	28
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	28
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	28
Governors’ Tenure and Venture Capital Firms’ Early-stage Investing: A Subnational Institutional Perspective	27
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?	27
Digital equity and government support during COVID-19	27
The role of culture in family firms	27
Re-entrepreneurial experience and learning during challenging times	26
Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study	26
The impact of trade facilitation on African SMEs’ performance	26
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	25
Financing A Free-for-All: Crowdfunding Open-Source Software	25
The times they are a‐changin’: how venture capital firms change their investment practices under the COVID-19 pandemic	25
Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation	25
From imposter fears to authenticity: a typology of women entrepreneurs	25
Tech on the ROC: export threshold and technology adoption interacted	25
Who is lending to small and micro family business in China: evidence from CHFS data	24
Why SMEs go to crowdfunding? The role of financial constraints and agency issues	24
Driving change in higher education: the role of dynamic capabilities in strengthening universities’ third mission	24
Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being	24
Labor market regulation and gendered entrepreneurship: a cross-national perspective	23
Ownership types, institutions, and the internationalization of emerging economy new ventures: evidence from Africa	23
Accountants in family firms—a systematic literature review	23
The Paycheck Protection Program and small business performance: Evidence from craft breweries	22
Save for a rainy day? How regional household savings constrain entrepreneurship after a natural disaster	22
Outside or inside the firm? The impact of debt financing on the exit routes of start-up firms	22
On why women-owned businesses take more time to secure microloans	22
Digital adoption and human capital upscaling: a regional study of the manufacturing sector	22
Gender bias in high stakes pitching: an NLP approach	21
Hybrid entrepreneurship and risk	21
Fostering SME survival through insolvency proceedings: a legitimacy perspective on retrenchment, age, and firm-specific distress	21
Stagnating or flourishing? How entrepreneurial support organizations navigate constraints in nascent ecosystems	21
Indirect effects of R&D subsidies: labor mobility as a channel for knowledge spillovers	21
Effectuation and causation models: an integrative theoretical framework	21
SMEs, R &D financing, and credit shocks	21
Amundsen versus Scott: are growth paths related to firm performance?	20
Family firm network strategies in regional clusters: evidence from Italy	20

Small grant subsidy application effects on productivity improvement: evidence from Japanese SMEs	20
In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand	20
Intellectual property among incorporated and unincorporated entrepreneurs	20
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs?	20
Gender differences in business performance: evidence from Kenya and South Africa	19
Security token offerings	19
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation	19
Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	19
Network-based principles of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a case study of a start-up network	19
The social benefit of being destructive: entrepreneurship and loan diversion	19
How do successful exits impact regional development? Longitudinal evidence from European cities	18
Gender productivity gap: does gender-equal ownership compensate for female entrepreneurs’ lack of prior industry experience?	18
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles	18
Correction to: Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs	18
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies	18
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems	18
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	18
Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs	18
Coping with high decline: firms’ resilience to adversity	17
Crisis as a catalyst: how the pre-existing values of entrepreneurs shape strategic crisis responses	17
Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets	17
Christina Guenther: a commemoration	17
The protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: inside the black box	17
Missing links of knowledge spillover effects on firm intensity and regional development	16
Cultural diversity, social integration, and migrant entrepreneurship—evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey	16
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes	16
Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	16
Truth, knowledge, and entrepreneurship theory: arguments for a rationalist scientific epistemology	16
Preparing fertile ground: how does the quality of business environments affect MSE growth?	16
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	15
Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship	15
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms	15
Correction: Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures	15
Correction: Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation	15
Correction to: A second chance for failed entrepreneurs: a good idea?	15
Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation	15
Questions worth asking for futures worth making: an effectual approach	15
Exploring spatial network structures in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a network and clustering analysis of global venture funding flows	15
Targeted monetary policy, SMEs’ loan availability, and corporate investment: evidence from China	14
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture	14
The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses	14
Entrepreneurial accessibility, eudaimonic well-being, and inequality	14
The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises	14
The role of accelerator programmes on the capital structure of start-ups	14
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy	14
Managing destructive entrepreneurship in place: formal and informal institutions for the achievement of regional economic growth	14
Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms	14
Does digitalization sufficiently empower female entrepreneurs? Evidence from their online gender identities and crowdfunding performance	13
Digital innovation in family firms: The roles of non-family managers and transgenerational control intentions	13
Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda	13
Correction to: The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms	13
The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs	13
Importing knowledge from psychology: how it broadens the scope of entrepreneurship research—and helps it avoid the “multi-tower effect”	13
New venture creation: innovativeness, speed-to-breakeven, and revenue tradeoffs	12
Entrepreneurs’ impatience and digital technologies	12
Re-viewing entrepreneurial universities through alumni engagement	12
The Virus and the Citadel: exploring the performance impact of business group affiliation for small businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs	12
Role conflict, entrepreneurial identity, and academic entrepreneurship: the effects of immigration status	12
A path-centric account of action-oriented entrepreneurship training	12
Financial performance of hidden champions: Evidence from German manufacturing firms	12
Exploring the contribution of micro firms to innovation: does competition matter?	12
We are in this together: leading resource exchange between entrepreneurial ecosystems to strategically steer their development	12
Topic-based classification and identification of global trends for startup companies	11
Community-level social capital and investment decisions in equity crowdfunding	11
Passion and attractiveness on display: an examination of gender bias in crowdfunding	11
Learning from different types of failure: evidence from non-severe and severe work accidents in SMEs	11
The cost of health insurance and entry into entrepreneurship	11
Effects of immigration on native entrepreneurship in the US: an analysis of self-employment over 1980–2018	11
HGX: the anatomy of high growth exporters	11
European funds and firm performance: evidence from a natural experiment	11
How unemployment benefit duration shapes startup motivation and growth	11
The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms	11
The role of entrepreneurial absorptive capacity for knowledge spillover entrepreneurship	11
Advisors for micro-entrepreneurs: is one as good as another in accessing alternative finance?	11
Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross-countries study	11
“Exhale the old and inhale the new”: Comparing the impact of anti-corruption campaign on entrepreneurship and exiting markets in China	11
Sexual orientation, entrepreneurship, and firm survival	10
Token governance in initial coin offerings: Implications of token retention and resale restrictions for ICO success	10
Opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship: do linguistic structures matter?	10

Logics at play: How logics shape interactions across entrepreneurial ecosystems	10
Three waves of immigrant entrepreneurship: a cross-national comparative study	10
What drives the valuation of entrepreneurial ventures? A map to navigate the literature and research directions	10
Financial statement audit and regulatory focus in equity crowdfunding decisions	10
Comprehensive and multifaceted perspectives on sustainability, urban studies, and entrepreneurship	10
Institutional enablers for sustainable entrepreneurship: a configurational analysis	10
Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship	10
From poverty trap to commodity trap: entrepreneurship and well-being among the poor	10
Becoming an academic entrepreneur: how scientists develop an entrepreneurial identity	10
Shaping and furthering core conversations in entrepreneurship research: Dean A. Shepherd recipient of the 2025 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	10
Does equity crowdfunding benefit ventures located in high unemployment regions?	10
From flashlight to spotlight: Illuminating gray shadows that shape entrepreneurship’s dark sides	9
Persistence of culture: how the entrepreneurial culture of origin contributes to migrant entrepreneurship	9
The interplay of context and entrepreneurship: the new frontier for contextualisation research	9
Pushing the boundaries of entrepreneurial ecosystems: antecedents to international network activity of entrepreneurial firms	9
The dynamic construction of an incubation context: a practice theory perspective	9
Entrepreneurial organizing activities and nascent venture performance	9
Stuck in short-term, daily operations, or not?: Unraveling SME’s long-term orientation	9
Peer support and value creation among women entrepreneurs	9
Competition and firm recovery post-COVID-19	9
Hidden costs of entering self-employment: the spouse’s psychological well-being	9
Per Davidsson: recipient of the 2023 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	9
Multinational enterprise spillover mechanisms in the genesis and evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems	8
Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience	8
Crowdfunding investors, intermediaries and risky entrepreneurs	8
Re-viewing the entrepreneurial university: strategic challenges and theory building opportunities	8
What restricts SMEs from adopting sophisticated capital budgeting practices?	8
Hiring family or non-family managers when non-economic (sustainability) goals matter? A multitask agency model	8
Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy	8
Colors and Entrepreneurial Activities: An Exploratory Study	8
Early-stage start-up hiring: the interplay between start-ups’ initial resources and innovation orientation	8
What drives micro-entrepreneurs’ value-oriented innovative behavior in microfinance: an entrepreneurial resourcefulness perspective	8
Creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem in a ‘knowledge desert’: the role of international connectivity and public institutional support	8
Is sustainable entrepreneurship profitable? ESG disclosure and the financial performance of SMEs	8
Cultural diversity and innovative entrepreneurship	8
Bribery, on-the-job training, and firm performance	8
Historiography and the excavation of nascent business venturing	7
Does religion matter to angels? Exploring the influence of religion in entrepreneurial investor decision-making	7
The role of cognitive legitimacy in social entrepreneurship: a multilevel analysis	7
Agencing entrepreneurial ecosystems for sustainability: A systematic review to rethink values, transformation, and boundaries	7
Only the brave: improving self-rationing efficiency among discouraged Swiss SMEs	7
Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups	7
Artificial intelligence and firm growth — catch-up processes of SMEs through integrating AI into their knowledge bases	7
Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban development	7
Heterogeneity and state dependence in firms’ access to bank credit	7
Entrepreneurial finance and regional ecosystem emergence	7
Estimating the innovation benefits of first-mover and second-mover strategies when micro-businesses adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning	7
Embracing the “fail fast and learn fast” mindset: conceptualizing learning from failure in knowledge-intensive SMEs	7
Organizing transactions between entrepreneurs and human capital resources under Knightian uncertainty	7
The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries	7
The dynamic impact of inter-firm network agreements	7
Family firm heterogeneity and patenting. Revising the role of size and age	7
Assessing the impact of the EIB’s intermediated lending to SMEs during funding shocks	7
Sustainability orientation of academic spinoffs: does it pay?	7
High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth	7
Soft and hard information in equity crowdfunding: network effects in the digitalization of entrepreneurial finance	7
Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective	7
“Status” concerns and self-employment transitions	7
Unveiling the role of entrepreneurial teams in the equity crowdfunding journey	7
Culture and social entrepreneurship: the role of value-practice misalignment	7
Keeping pace with the digital transformation — exploring the digital orientation of SMEs	6
Values and entrepreneurship in the sustainable society: toward a multilevel understanding of entrepreneurial value practices	6
Narcissism, workaholism, family support and new venture performance: a moderated mediation model	6
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an Asian perspective	6
Power and entrepreneurship	6
Redefining the entrepreneurial ecosystem in China from a network-based view: A review and proposal for future research	6
Different response paths to organizational resilience	6
The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective	6
Right of association and new business entry: country-level evidence from the market sector	6
A fatigue model of social venturing	6
The productivity shock in business services	6
Refugee entrepreneurship motivations in Sweden and Germany: a comparative case study	6
Firm growth and financial constraints: evidence from a policy-based loan program	6
The external effects of offshoring on job security in SMEs	6
Graduation of initial public offering firms from junior stock markets: evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange	6
Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids	6
Getting off to a good start: emerging academic fields and early-stage equity financing	5
The role of lead investors in equity crowdfunding campaigns with a secondary market	5
Achieving aging well through senior entrepreneurship: a three-country empirical study	5
Gender diversity at entrepreneurial firm IPOs: responding to changing societal norms	5
Decentralized finance (DeFi) markets for startups: search frictions, intermediation, and the efficiency of the ICO market	5
Exploring resource synergies: strategic and versatile resources in venture growth	5
Is digitalization a source of innovation? Exploring the role of digital diffusion in SME innovation performance	5
Becoming global billionaires from mainland China: 2004–2018	5
Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation	5
Connectedness of entrepreneurial ecosystems: evidence from the mobility of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurs	5
Correction to: Core business prospects and the management of internal corporate ventures	5
Correction to: Resilient entrepreneurs? — revisiting the relationship between the Big Five and self-employment	5
Intensive personal mentoring: accelerators’ secret sauce	5
Evolution of micro and small enterprises’ work safety behavior in high-risk industries	5
Responding to unexpected crises: The roles of slack resources and entrepreneurial attitude to build resilience	4
Corporate entrepreneurship: a systematic literature review and future research agenda	4
Productivity and firm exit during the COVID-19 crisis: cross-country evidence	4
Contextualizing emotional intelligence for commercial and social entrepreneurship	4
Learning from success and failure: implications for entrepreneurs, SMEs, and policy	4