OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Small Business Economics is 12. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

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
Realizing expectations? High-impact entrepreneurship across countries	60
Speed of pro-market reforms and entrepreneurial innovation	60
Initial Coin Offerings: a Hybrid Empirical Review	59
Entrepreneurial prototyping: the role of purpose, prototype recycling, and skills bricolage	58
Administrative reform and the disposal of zombie enterprises: evidence from China	53
The influence of venture capital and university ownership on spin-off’s bank loan access: a synergistic effect	53
Fiscal windfalls and entrepreneurship: fostering entry or promoting incumbents?	51
The complex causality of gender and entrepreneurship: to grow or not to grow?	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
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiative scores and firm performance: the importance and role of firm size	34
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	34
Drivers of fragility in the ventures of poverty entrepreneurs	34
A procedural perspective on academic spin-off creation: the changing relative importance of the academic and the commercial sphere	33
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
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and pandemic-related policies on new firm creation: an analysis of the Italian case	32
Is Nonprofit Entrepreneurship Unique?	31
Bureaucracy, work organization, and the transition to entrepreneurship	31
Customer engagement patterns and new venture outcomes	30
The COVID-19 pandemic and family business performance	30
University technology transfer: leveraging experiential learning and TTO’s resources	30
Re-entrepreneurial experience and learning during challenging times	29
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
Examining the outcomes of entrepreneur pitch training: an exploratory field study	28
Financing decisions in private family firms: a family firm pecking order	28
The role of culture in family firms	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
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
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
The social benefit of being destructive: entrepreneurship and loan diversion	23
Hybrid entrepreneurship and risk	23
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
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

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
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
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
Financial munificence, R&D intensity, and new venture survival: critical roles of CEO attributes	19
Microfranchising and necessity entrepreneurs	19
Correction to: Human capital effects on fundraising for necessity- and opportunity-based entrepreneurs	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
Christina Guenther: a commemoration	19
Missing links of knowledge spillover effects on firm intensity and regional development	18
What gets published and what doesn’t? Exploring optimal distinctiveness and diverse expectations in entrepreneurship articles	18
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
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
Digitalization and trade participation of SMEs	16
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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