Small Business Economics

Article	Citations
Site entrepreneurship: desolation to destination	117
Recognizing the need for a non-academic cofounder: competence (mis)perceptions in academic spin-off team formation	115
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	96
The timing dilemma: understanding the determinants of innovative startups’ patent collateralization for loans	71
Hubristic founders and entrepreneurial exit: a proposed framework	67
High-tech entrepreneurship in regional innovativeness: the role of government innovation intervention	63
Adaptive capacity in the relationship between organizational sensitivity and crisis recovery	62
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	60
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	60
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	59
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	58
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	53
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	53
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	51
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	51
From modesty to market: shareholder reactions to humility rhetoric in family and nonfamily firms under media scrutiny	50
Institutional distance, geographic distance, and Chinese venture capital investment: do networks and trust matter?	43
Imprinting parental signals: a key driver of network status for new spinoff firms	43
Towards a comprehensive framework of the institutional dimensions in entrepreneurship research	40
No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	40
Complementary funding: how location links crowdfunding and venture capital	39
The entrepreneurial creation of private institutions: exchange platform innovations and economic development	39
ECB unconventional monetary policy and SME access to finance	38
A meta-analysis of entrepreneurial ecosystem elements and entrepreneurial activity	38
Seeds in rocky soil: the interactive role of entrepreneurial legacy and bridging in family firms’ organizational ambidexterity	38

Does education enhance entrepreneurship?	36
Regional entrepreneurial ecosystems: learning from forest ecosystems	36
AI, robots and innovation in European SMEs	36
Mobile money, traditional financial services and firm productivity in Africa	35
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	34
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	34
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size	34
Natural disasters, personal attributes, and social entrepreneurship: an attention-based view	33
Green signals of new ventures: investigating the impact of environmental orientation on funding and the moderating role of lead venture capitalists	33
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	33
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related policies on new firm creation: an analysis of the Italian case	32
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	31
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	31
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	30
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	30
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	30
Digital equity and government support during COVID-19	29
The impact of trade facilitation on African SMEs’ performance	29
Were small businesses more likely to permanently close in the pandemic?	29
Governors’ Tenure and Venture Capital Firms’ Early-stage Investing: A Subnational Institutional Perspective	29
Re-entrepreneurial experience and learning during challenging times	29
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	28
The role of culture in family firms	28
Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study	28
The Paycheck Protection Program and small business performance: Evidence from craft breweries	27
Why SMEs go to crowdfunding? The role of financial constraints and agency issues	26
The times they are a‐changin’: how venture capital firms change their investment practices under the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Digital adoption and human capital upscaling: a regional study of the manufacturing sector	26
Tech on the ROC: export threshold and technology adoption interacted	26
Outside or inside the firm? The impact of debt financing on the exit routes of start-up firms	25
Unpacking the relationship between sense of place and entrepreneurs’ well-being	25
Who is lending to small and micro family business in China: evidence from CHFS data	25
Accountants in family firms—a systematic literature review	25
Save for a rainy day? How regional household savings constrain entrepreneurship after a natural disaster	25
From imposter fears to authenticity: a typology of women entrepreneurs	24
On why women-owned businesses take more time to secure microloans	24
Financing A Free-for-All: Crowdfunding Open-Source Software	24
Driving change in higher education: the role of dynamic capabilities in strengthening universities’ third mission	24
Ownership types, institutions, and the internationalization of emerging economy new ventures: evidence from Africa	24
Labor market regulation and gendered entrepreneurship: a cross-national perspective	24
Innovation as a mixed gamble in family firms: the moderating effect of inter-organizational cooperation	24
Effectuation and causation models: an integrative theoretical framework	24
Indirect effects of R&D subsidies: labor mobility as a channel for knowledge spillovers	23
Fostering SME survival through insolvency proceedings: a legitimacy perspective on retrenchment, age, and firm-specific distress	23
Gender bias in high stakes pitching: an NLP approach	23
SMEs, R &D financing, and credit shocks	23
The social benefit of being destructive: entrepreneurship and loan diversion	23
Hybrid entrepreneurship and risk	23
Stagnating or flourishing? How entrepreneurial support organizations navigate constraints in nascent ecosystems	22
Family firm network strategies in regional clusters: evidence from Italy	22

Intellectual property among incorporated and unincorporated entrepreneurs	22
Small grant subsidy application effects on productivity improvement: evidence from Japanese SMEs	22
Gender differences in business performance: evidence from Kenya and South Africa	22
Mapping the venture capital and private equity research: a bibliometric review and future research agenda	22
Third-party signals in crowdfunded microfinance: which microfinance institutions boost crowdfunding among refugee entrepreneurs?	21
Network-based principles of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a case study of a start-up network	21
In the eye of the beholder? Differentiating between SMEs and Mittelstand	21
Entrepreneurship in religious organizations: How the Church of England developed an entrepreneurial orientation	21
Coping with high decline: firms’ resilience to adversity	20
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	20
The protestant ethic and entrepreneurship: inside the black box	20
Correction to: Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs	19
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes	19
Truth, knowledge, and entrepreneurship theory: arguments for a rationalist scientific epistemology	19
Preparing fertile ground: how does the quality of business environments affect MSE growth?	19
Cultural diversity, social integration, and migrant entrepreneurship—evidence from the China migrants dynamic survey	19
Entrepreneurship at the periphery: financial constraints, firm growth, and the liability of distance in island contexts	19
Christina Guenther: a commemoration	19
Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs	19
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles	18
Missing links of knowledge spillover effects on firm intensity and regional development	18
Crisis as a catalyst: how the pre-existing values of entrepreneurs shape strategic crisis responses	17
Questions worth asking for futures worth making: an effectual approach	17
Entrepreneurship and innovation in worker cooperatives and conventional firms: the role of external cooperation	17
How do successful exits impact regional development? Longitudinal evidence from European cities	17
Assessing the influence of institutions on students’ entrepreneurial dynamics: evidence from European post-socialist and market-oriented economies	17
Saras Sarasvathy: recipient of the 2022 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	17
Women-led ventures: target margins in emerging markets	17
Defining networks in entrepreneurial ecosystems: the openness of ecosystems	16
Correction to: A second chance for failed entrepreneurs: a good idea?	16
Correction: Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation	16
Gender productivity gap: does gender-equal ownership compensate for female entrepreneurs’ lack of prior industry experience?	16
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	16
Orchestrating entrepreneurial ecosystems through transactive memory systems: a learning-based framework	15
Knowledge-based information and the effectiveness of R&D in small firms	15
Digital innovation in family firms: The roles of non-family managers and transgenerational control intentions	15
Managing destructive entrepreneurship in place: formal and informal institutions for the achievement of regional economic growth	15
Translational research: from basic research to regional biomedical entrepreneurship	15
Fluffy cuffs: SME’s innovation in alliances with buyer firms	15
Targeted monetary policy, SMEs’ loan availability, and corporate investment: evidence from China	15
Correction: Accelerating emergence: the causal (but contextual) effect of social impact accelerators on nascent for-profit social ventures	15
The “open family firm”: openness as boundary work in family enterprises	14
Importing knowledge from psychology: how it broadens the scope of entrepreneurship research—and helps it avoid the “multi-tower effect”	14
Entrepreneurs’ impatience and digital technologies	14
The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses	14
My mother-in-law does not like it: resources, social norms, and entrepreneurial intentions of women in an emerging economy	14
Refugee entrepreneurship: systematic and thematic analyses and a research agenda	14
A path-centric account of action-oriented entrepreneurship training	14
Does digitalization sufficiently empower female entrepreneurs? Evidence from their online gender identities and crowdfunding performance	14
Reexamining the gender gap in microlending funding decisions: the role of borrower culture	14
Exploring spatial network structures in entrepreneurial ecosystems: a network and clustering analysis of global venture funding flows	14
Correction to: The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms	14
The interplay between human, social and cognitive resources of nascent entrepreneurs	14
Sowing the seeds of rural prosperity? The limited impact of USDA investments on county-level business dynamics	13
Role conflict, entrepreneurial identity, and academic entrepreneurship: the effects of immigration status	13
Re-viewing entrepreneurial universities through alumni engagement	13
ADHD and entrepreneurship: the role of perceived team conflict and gender on well-being	13
Empowering female entrepreneurs through university affiliation: evidence from Italian academic spinoffs	13
We are in this together: leading resource exchange between entrepreneurial ecosystems to strategically steer their development	13
Policy failure in public support for small business innovation: the case of innovation vouchers in China	13
The Virus and the Citadel: exploring the performance impact of business group affiliation for small businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic	13
New venture creation: innovativeness, speed-to-breakeven, and revenue tradeoffs	13
The impact of on-the-job training subsidies on firm-level outcomes: evidence from Flemish SMEs	12
“Exhale the old and inhale the new”: Comparing the impact of anti-corruption campaign on entrepreneurship and exiting markets in China	12
HGX: the anatomy of high growth exporters	12
The cost of health insurance and entry into entrepreneurship	12
Advisors for micro-entrepreneurs: is one as good as another in accessing alternative finance?	12
European funds and firm performance: evidence from a natural experiment	12
Giving something back: how reciprocal motivation drives entrepreneurs to contribute to their entrepreneurial ecosystem	12
Effects of immigration on native entrepreneurship in the US: an analysis of self-employment over 1980–2018	12
The role of entrepreneurial absorptive capacity for knowledge spillover entrepreneurship	12
How unemployment benefit duration shapes startup motivation and growth	11
Narrative entrepreneurship: bringing (his)story back to entrepreneurship	11
Peer support and value creation among women entrepreneurs	11
Does gender matter for corporate entrepreneurship? A cross-countries study	11
Learning from different types of failure: evidence from non-severe and severe work accidents in SMEs	11
Opportunity and necessity entrepreneurship: do linguistic structures matter?	11
Comprehensive and multifaceted perspectives on sustainability, urban studies, and entrepreneurship	11
Three waves of immigrant entrepreneurship: a cross-national comparative study	11
Community-level social capital and investment decisions in equity crowdfunding	11

Topic-based classification and identification of global trends for startup companies	11
Persistence of culture: how the entrepreneurial culture of origin contributes to migrant entrepreneurship	11
The role of similarity and complementarity in the selection of potential partners for open innovation projects in family firms	11
Passion and attractiveness on display: an examination of gender bias in crowdfunding	11
Entrepreneurial organizing activities and nascent venture performance	10
From poverty trap to commodity trap: entrepreneurship and well-being among the poor	10
Shaping and furthering core conversations in entrepreneurship research: Dean A. Shepherd recipient of the 2025 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	10
The dynamic construction of an incubation context: a practice theory perspective	10
Logics at play: How logics shape interactions across entrepreneurial ecosystems	10
Financial statement audit and regulatory focus in equity crowdfunding decisions	10
Does equity crowdfunding benefit ventures located in high unemployment regions?	10
Competition and firm recovery post-COVID-19	10
The interplay of context and entrepreneurship: the new frontier for contextualisation research	10
Hidden costs of entering self-employment: the spouse’s psychological well-being	10
Institutional enablers for sustainable entrepreneurship: a configurational analysis	10
What drives the valuation of entrepreneurial ventures? A map to navigate the literature and research directions	10
Token governance in initial coin offerings: Implications of token retention and resale restrictions for ICO success	10
Sexual orientation, entrepreneurship, and firm survival	10
Stuck in short-term, daily operations, or not?: Unraveling SME’s long-term orientation	9
Pushing the boundaries of entrepreneurial ecosystems: antecedents to international network activity of entrepreneurial firms	9
Per Davidsson: recipient of the 2023 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research	9
What restricts SMEs from adopting sophisticated capital budgeting practices?	9
Cultural diversity and innovative entrepreneurship	9
Bribery, on-the-job training, and firm performance	9
Early-stage start-up hiring: the interplay between start-ups’ initial resources and innovation orientation	9
Corruption, democracy, and entrepreneurship: the role of technology	9
The impact of communication, gender, and risk aversion on family businesses’ sustainable practices: a game theoretical and experimental approach	9
Grow, grow, grow? Stakeholder value creation by high-growth firms	9
Re-viewing the entrepreneurial university: strategic challenges and theory building opportunities	9
Hiring family or non-family managers when non-economic (sustainability) goals matter? A multitask agency model	9
From flashlight to spotlight: Illuminating gray shadows that shape entrepreneurship’s dark sides	9
Publisher Correction: Understanding the role of place in emerging organisational fields: a comparative analysis of nascent ICT entrepreneurial ecosystems in Japan	9
What drives micro-entrepreneurs’ value-oriented innovative behavior in microfinance: an entrepreneurial resourcefulness perspective	9
From ambition to evidence: a practical tool for startup impact assessment	8
Assessing the impact of the EIB’s intermediated lending to SMEs during funding shocks	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
Colors and Entrepreneurial Activities: An Exploratory Study	8
The emergence and impact of the entrepreneurship industry	8
Multinational enterprise spillover mechanisms in the genesis and evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems	8
High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth	8
Historiography and the excavation of nascent business venturing	8
Firm dynamics and productivity by age—evidence from Ireland	8
Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience	8
Publisher Correction: No islands of entrepreneurship—mapping the trans-local dimension of entrepreneurial ecosystems through networks of accelerator participation	8
Entrepreneurial finance and regional ecosystem emergence	8
Embracing the “fail fast and learn fast” mindset: conceptualizing learning from failure in knowledge-intensive SMEs	8
Family firm heterogeneity and patenting. Revising the role of size and age	7
Building a space entrepreneurship industry: The role of entrepreneurial support programs for startup growth	7
Board openness and family firm internationalization: a social capital perspective	7
Does religion matter to angels? Exploring the influence of religion in entrepreneurial investor decision-making	7
Crowdfunding: different types of legitimacy	7
“Status” concerns and self-employment transitions	7
Agencing entrepreneurial ecosystems for sustainability: A systematic review to rethink values, transformation, and boundaries	7
Sustainability orientation of academic spinoffs: does it pay?	7
Estimating the innovation benefits of first-mover and second-mover strategies when micro-businesses adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning	7
Crowdfunding investors, intermediaries and risky entrepreneurs	7
The dynamic impact of inter-firm network agreements	7
Culture and social entrepreneurship: the role of value-practice misalignment	7
Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban development	7
The productivity impact of short-term labor mobility across industries	7
Unveiling the role of entrepreneurial teams in the equity crowdfunding journey	7
The role of cognitive legitimacy in social entrepreneurship: a multilevel analysis	7
Organizing transactions between entrepreneurs and human capital resources under Knightian uncertainty	6
Right of association and new business entry: country-level evidence from the market sector	6
Firm growth and financial constraints: evidence from a policy-based loan program	6
Redefining the entrepreneurial ecosystem in China from a network-based view: A review and proposal for future research	6
A fatigue model of social venturing	6
Social innovation, goal orientation, and openness: insights from social enterprise hybrids	6
Correction to: Core business prospects and the management of internal corporate ventures	6
Artificial intelligence and firm growth — catch-up processes of SMEs through integrating AI into their knowledge bases	6
Graduation of initial public offering firms from junior stock markets: evidence from the Tokyo Stock Exchange	6
The future-time reference of home-country language and immigrant self-employment: an imprinting perspective	6
Power and entrepreneurship	6
Narcissism, workaholism, family support and new venture performance: a moderated mediation model	6
Refugee entrepreneurship motivations in Sweden and Germany: a comparative case study	6
Values and entrepreneurship in the sustainable society: toward a multilevel understanding of entrepreneurial value practices	6
Self-efficacy and entrepreneurial performance of start-ups	6
The external effects of offshoring on job security in SMEs	6
The growth paradox: mental health perceptions, ecosystem support, and growth aspirations of ADHD entrepreneurs	6
The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: an Asian perspective	6
Keeping pace with the digital transformation — exploring the digital orientation of SMEs	6
Different response paths to organizational resilience	6
Government procurement contracts, external audit certification, and financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises	5
Informal institutions meet organizational resilience: evidence from Chinese farmer cooperatives	5
Achieving entrepreneurial growth despite resource and capability constraints: the role of service intermediaries	5
How does government-backed finance affect SMEs’ crisis predictors?	5
Technology sourcing ambidexterity in corporate venture capital: limitations of learning from open innovation	5
From values to ventures: how value priorities influence entrepreneurial well-being	5
Africa’s businesswomen – underfunded or underperforming?	5
Technological progress, financial constrains, and digital financial inclusion	5
Do intangible assets help SMEs in underdeveloped markets gain access to external finance?—the case of Vietnam	5
Colonialism versus independence—the role of entrepreneurial ecosystems in Azerbaijan over time	5
Immigrant self-employment in turbulent times	5
The forgetting curve in entrepreneurship: decaying learning benefits of past entrepreneurial experience	5