OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Small Business Management is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context	134
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding	107
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes	64
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises	52
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance	51
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents	44
The paths leading to harmonious and obsessive entrepreneurial passion	42
Microfoundations of entrepreneurial leadership: Successful women entrepreneurs in a developing economy	39
Financial literacy in SMEs: A systematic literature review and a framework for further inquiry	38
The role of flexibility, digitalization, and crisis response strategy for SMEs: Case of COVID-19	38
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery	35
The female role model tactic: Theorizing change in tech entrepreneurship	35
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates	31
I make my own rules: The role of rule-breaking and ethics in driving entrepreneurial intention and involvement	31
The power of family firm image in rewards-based crowdfunding	30
Achieving high international market performance via simple vs complex configuration of international managerial network ties: A set theoretic approach across two countries	30
External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England	29
Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance	27
From belief to action: How constructive rule beliefs influence rule-breaking in entrepreneurial settings	26
Business model innovation and SME performance and performance variability: The role of CEO persistence	26
The impact of startup subsidies on survival, growth, and stakeholder value	25
Intersectional dimensions of entrepreneurship among immigrant Hispanic women	25
Understanding micro-level resilience enactment of everyday entrepreneurs under threat	25
He-said, she-said: A family science and gendered perspective of communication in small family businesses	25
Social innovation in Saudi Arabia: The role of entrepreneurs’ spirituality, ego resilience and alertness	24

Choice or chance: How successful entrepreneurs talk about luck	24
Origin of Korean entrepreneurship	23
Unconventional philosophies and practices: Vietnamese family firm performance in multiple countries	22
Exploring the benefits and risks of displayed passion in entrepreneurial pitches	21
Eco-innovations in family SMEs: Understanding the role of financial performance satisfaction	21
Contextualizing talent management: A practice-based study of Turkish SMEs and large organizations	19
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	19
Enhancing digital innovation in developing countries: Organizational improvisation and resource constraints in digital entrepreneurial firms	19
Hybrid entrepreneurs: The value of experience	19
Cross-level effects of entrepreneurial orientation and ambidexterity on the resilience of small business owners	18
Government finance, loans, and guarantees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (2000–2021): A systematic review	17
Can playing defense yield gains? Examining the relationships among regulatory focus, innovation, and SME performance	17
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation	16
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education	16
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?	16
Lessons on small business resilience	15
The process of growing in small firms: Exploring dialectic adjustments to nonroutine disruption	15
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications	15
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms	14
What we say = what we think? How implicit beliefs shape nascent entrepreneurial behavior	14
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters	14
Agility and improvisation in Ontario’s craft breweries: Capabilities for constraints-based innovation	14
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa	14
Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance	13
Family firms’ survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity	13
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review	13
The implications of crypto hacker attacks on financing new ventures	13
The Effect of Online Discussion Boards on Equity Crowdfunding Dynamics	13
The spectrum of perceived uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: Impacts on effectuation	13
The gendered art of the pitch: How entrepreneurs’ gender identity in roadshows affects financing performance	13
Building strategic human capital resources: The effects of strategic entrepreneurship on employee recruitment and retention	13
Making the case for digital transformation: Digital entrepreneurship and on-demand service innovation	13
R&D investment, innovation, and export performance: An analysis of SME and large firms	12
The phantom push: a reevaluation of necessity entrepreneurship	12
Serial entrepreneurs: A review of literature and guidance for future research	12
Dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurship—DyCE: A new domain for theoretical and empirical research	12
Pre-start-up internationalization mindsets trigger action	12
Life satisfaction of family business members: The role of socioemotional wealth goals and psychological functioning	12
Clearing the hurdles: Revisiting the under-performance hypothesis for women-led VC funded firms	11
Applicant attraction to new ventures: The combined effects of entrepreneurs’ physical attractiveness and gender	11
Mobilizing potential slack and firm performance: Evidence from French SMEs before and during the COVID-19 period	11
Valuing failure: An experiment of VC reactions to an entrepreneur’s record of business creation	11
Peer-to-peer lending: Exploring borrowers’ motivations and expectations	11
Getting to the one: Prioritizing an idea set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics	11
The prediction of future cash flow for UK private companies	10
FsQCA in entrepreneurship research: Opportunities and best practices	10
Angel time horizon and industry preferences: The moderating role of personal wealth	10
Equity split evolution in entrepreneurial teams: Assessing financial contributions and human capital	10
It’s “time” to “talk” about entrepreneurial alertness	9
Financing women entrepreneurship in the developing world: An fsQCA analysis of informal financing schemes	9

Exploring innovation ecosystems to facilitate the adoption of sustainable entrepreneurship: Looking beyond the Western World	9
A guide to becoming green: Insights from angel investors developing sustainability-specific knowledge	8
Resilience building among small businesses in low-income neighborhoods	8
From athletes to entrepreneurs: Participation in youth sports as a precursor to future business endeavors	8
Exploring the effects of institutional logics on entrepreneurial opportunity evaluations in emerging economies	8
Signaling theory in entrepreneurial fundraising and crowdfunding research	8
Entrepreneurial identity formation in family firms: the transgenerational impact of parents’ fear of failure	8
Industry-relatedness, geographic proximity and strategic decisions of corporate and independent venture capital-backed companies	7
Effectuation processes of social media and student entrepreneurs in South Korea	7
Decoding evidence-based entrepreneurship: A systematic review of meta-analytic choices and reporting	7
Entrepreneurial challenges of COVID-19: Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis	7
Artificial intelligence machines as relational nonhuman actors in entrepreneurial teams	7
Family firm entrepreneurship: An experimental study	7
Decoding decision-making: The interplay of cognitive processes and working capital management constraints in new ventures	7
The role of board design in small-firm crisis response	7
Digital communities of inquiry: How online communities support entrepreneurial opportunity development	7
Applying resource-based theory to social value creation: A conceptual model of contributive advantage	7
Assessing the importance of managerial and entrepreneurial experience in entrepreneurial training programs	7
Owner-manager emotions and strategic responses of small family businesses to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Women entrepreneurs’ negotiation of the work–family balance in patriarchal society	6
The impact of explorative and exploitative collaborations on SMEs innovative performance	6
Linking green marketing and SMEs performance: A psychometric meta-analysis	6
Opening the black box of venture capitalists’ evaluation of entrepreneurial teams	6
Challenges for growing SMEs: A managerial perspective	6
Party platforms and entrepreneurial pathways: Exploring the impact of political parties on venture formation	6
How university business incubation supports entrepreneurs in technology-based and creative industries: A comparative study	6
Different strokes for different folks: A review of SME decline and turnaround	6
Are bricoleurs more satisfied? How bricolage affects entrepreneur job satisfaction among experienced versus novice entrepreneurs	6
Heroes of the Green Room – How able successors revitalize and reinvent family firms	6
The pre-foundation evolution of proactiveness in born global and non-born global USOs	6
Racial disparities in the small business loan market	5
When the tank is empty: Reviewing burnout in entrepreneurship	5
How the tone of mass media news affects pledge amounts in reward crowdfunding campaigns	5
Assessing motivational factors and effectual mechanisms’ impact on developing radical innovation in small firms	5
The board as a guide for learning in growing SMEs	5
Loan size concentration under the UK enterprise finance guarantee scheme and SME access to finance	5
Bricolage and new-venture performance: conditions of digitalization, causation, and effectuation	5
Academics and entrepreneurs: Enablers of hybrid identity centrality among university researchers	5
Generative artificial intelligence use and configurational pathways to innovation performance in start-ups	5
Beyond educating students about business failure: The role of optimism training and hope	5
The family business CEO: A review of insights and opportunities for advancement	5
The eudaimonic well-being of entrepreneurs: A gendered perspective	5
Toward a theory of entrepreneurial orientation and technology fit in SMEs	5
How does a subsequent entrepreneurship career choice develop? A set-theoretic analysis testing hope theory	4
Bourdieusian and resource-based perspectives on ethnic minority microbusinesses: The construction of a culture-induced entrepreneurship model	4
Exploring the role of managerial and organizational capabilities for the inbound internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises	4
Family firms and sensegiving in a global crisis: Nudging toward a sunspot	4
Small-business owners and their choice of banks: Some lessons from the banking literature and game theory in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
International new ventures: Beyond definitional debates to advancing the cornerstone of international entrepreneurship	4
Retaining reluctant successors in family firms: The roles of childhood exposure and affective commitment	4
The new normal: The status quo of AI adoption in SMEs	4
An exploration of digital servitization business models in manufacturing SMEs	4
Adverse retention of family talent in intrafamily succession	4
Attracting nonfamily applicants to the family firm: A signaling theory approach	4
A new business ecosystem for SMEs development in China: Key-node industry and industrial net	4
Understanding international CSR in SMEs	4
Acquihires by SMEs as a strategic response to industry digitalization	4
Exploring the effect of institutions on entrepreneurial ecosystems: A meta–analysis	4