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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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
When do firms learn? Learning before versus after exporting	47
Embracing the “fail fast and learn fast” mindset: conceptualizing learning from failure in knowledge-intensive SMEs	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
International linkages between entrepreneurial ecosystems: understanding the role of corporate accelerators	39
Educational diversity and work experience paths towards entrepreneurship	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
The influence of start-up motivation on entrepreneurial performance	30
Bursting the bubble: why sustainability initiatives often lack adequate intention to action translation	30
High-growth firms’ contribution to aggregate productivity growth	30
From independent inventor to inventor entrepreneur: an application of the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship	29
Divergent thinking and post-launch entrepreneurial outcomes: non-linearities and the moderating role of experience	29
Different outcomes for different founders? Local organizational sponsorship and entrepreneurial finance	28
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
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hours lost by self-employed racial minorities: evidence from Brazil	27
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem in a ‘knowledge desert’: the role of international connectivity and public institutional support	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
Entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urban development	17
Are there wages from “sin”? Working conditions spillover from paying bribe in Vietnam	17
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
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
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
Enter the Prince of Denmark: Entrepreneurship for a Resilient and Sustainable Economy	15
The role of accelerator programmes on the capital structure of start-ups	15
The non-linear impact of risk tolerance on entrepreneurial profit and business survival	14
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
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
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
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
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