OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Small Business Management is 5. 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
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises	166
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes	112
Re-examining the team reflexivity–innovation relationship: The roles of team resilience and team dominant functional diversity	83
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents	71
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding	55
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance	51
Big data driven supply chains in SMEs: The role of industry digitalization	47
Microfoundations of entrepreneurial leadership: Successful women entrepreneurs in a developing economy	46
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery	44
The role of flexibility, digitalization, and crisis response strategy for SMEs: Case of COVID-19	44
I make my own rules: The role of rule-breaking and ethics in driving entrepreneurial intention and involvement	39
The paths leading to harmonious and obsessive entrepreneurial passion	39
Financial literacy in SMEs: A systematic literature review and a framework for further inquiry	39
He-said, she-said: A family science and gendered perspective of communication in small family businesses	34
The female role model tactic: Theorizing change in tech entrepreneurship	34
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates	33
Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance	32
From belief to action: How constructive rule beliefs influence rule-breaking in entrepreneurial settings	31
Business model innovation and SME performance and performance variability: The role of CEO persistence	28
External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England	28
The power of family firm image in rewards-based crowdfunding	27
Achieving high international market performance via simple vs complex configuration of international managerial network ties: A set theoretic approach across two countries	27
Choice or chance: How successful entrepreneurs talk about luck	26
Intersectional dimensions of entrepreneurship among immigrant Hispanic women	26
Multi-level entrepreneurial ecosystem framework: Founder, incubator, and country characteristics for start-up performance	26

The antecedents of family-centered performance in SME family firms: An organizational positivity perspective	25
Social innovation in Saudi Arabia: The role of entrepreneurs’ spirituality, ego resilience and alertness	24
Origin of Korean entrepreneurship	23
Understanding micro-level resilience enactment of everyday entrepreneurs under threat	23
Eco-innovations in family SMEs: Understanding the role of financial performance satisfaction	23
The impact of startup subsidies on survival, growth, and stakeholder value	23
Contextualizing talent management: A practice-based study of Turkish SMEs and large organizations	22
Exploring the benefits and risks of displayed passion in entrepreneurial pitches	21
Unconventional philosophies and practices: Vietnamese family firm performance in multiple countries	21
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	19
Can playing defense yield gains? Examining the relationships among regulatory focus, innovation, and SME performance	19
Enhancing digital innovation in developing countries: Organizational improvisation and resource constraints in digital entrepreneurial firms	19
Hybrid entrepreneurs: The value of experience	19
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation	18
Leverage cyclicality and the role of collateral: A comparative study of SMEs and large firms	18
Lessons on small business resilience	18
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications	18
Government finance, loans, and guarantees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (2000–2021): A systematic review	18
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education	17
Family firms’ survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity	16
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?	16
Agility and improvisation in Ontario’s craft breweries: Capabilities for constraints-based innovation	16
The spectrum of perceived uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: Impacts on effectuation	16
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms	15
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa	15
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters	15
Making the case for digital transformation: Digital entrepreneurship and on-demand service innovation	15
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review	15
The process of growing in small firms: Exploring dialectic adjustments to nonroutine disruption	15
The implications of crypto hacker attacks on financing new ventures	14
Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance	14
Pre-start-up internationalization mindsets trigger action	14
Building strategic human capital resources: The effects of strategic entrepreneurship on employee recruitment and retention	14
The Effect of Online Discussion Boards on Equity Crowdfunding Dynamics	14
The gendered art of the pitch: How entrepreneurs’ gender identity in roadshows affects financing performance	14
R&D investment, innovation, and export performance: An analysis of SME and large firms	13
Getting to the one: Prioritizing an idea set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics	12
Valuing failure: An experiment of VC reactions to an entrepreneur’s record of business creation	12
Applicant attraction to new ventures: The combined effects of entrepreneurs’ physical attractiveness and gender	12
Dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurship—DyCE: A new domain for theoretical and empirical research	12
The phantom push: a reevaluation of necessity entrepreneurship	12
Life satisfaction of family business members: The role of socioemotional wealth goals and psychological functioning	12
Mobilizing potential slack and firm performance: Evidence from French SMEs before and during the COVID-19 period	11
Peer-to-peer lending: Exploring borrowers’ motivations and expectations	11
FsQCA in entrepreneurship research: Opportunities and best practices	11
Clearing the hurdles: Revisiting the under-performance hypothesis for women-led VC funded firms	11
Entrepreneurs as influencers: The role of female entrepreneurs in small business development	10
The prediction of future cash flow for UK private companies	10
Equity split evolution in entrepreneurial teams: Assessing financial contributions and human capital	10
Entrepreneurial identity formation in family firms: the transgenerational impact of parents’ fear of failure	9

Resilience building among small businesses in low-income neighborhoods	9
A guide to becoming green: Insights from angel investors developing sustainability-specific knowledge	9
Why owls fly while ostriches flounder: An empirical study of advice takers and non–advice takers	9
Financing women entrepreneurship in the developing world: An fsQCA analysis of informal financing schemes	9
Angel time horizon and industry preferences: The moderating role of personal wealth	9
From athletes to entrepreneurs: Participation in youth sports as a precursor to future business endeavors	9
Exploring innovation ecosystems to facilitate the adoption of sustainable entrepreneurship: Looking beyond the Western World	9
It’s “time” to “talk” about entrepreneurial alertness	9
Exploring the effects of institutional logics on entrepreneurial opportunity evaluations in emerging economies	9
Industry-relatedness, geographic proximity and strategic decisions of corporate and independent venture capital-backed companies	8
Signaling theory in entrepreneurial fundraising and crowdfunding research	8
Applying resource-based theory to social value creation: A conceptual model of contributive advantage	8
Artificial intelligence machines as relational nonhuman actors in entrepreneurial teams	8
Decoding decision-making: The interplay of cognitive processes and working capital management constraints in new ventures	8
Digital communities of inquiry: How online communities support entrepreneurial opportunity development	8
Assessing the importance of managerial and entrepreneurial experience in entrepreneurial training programs	8
Business associations, access to finance, and institutional quality: Drivers of SMEs’ circular economy transformation	7
Entrepreneurial challenges of COVID-19: Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis	7
Family firm entrepreneurship: An experimental study	7
Owner-manager emotions and strategic responses of small family businesses to the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Are bricoleurs more satisfied? How bricolage affects entrepreneur job satisfaction among experienced versus novice entrepreneurs	7
Family business research: The next generation	7
Enhancing sustainable performance through sustainable business model innovation	7
Women entrepreneurs’ negotiation of the work–family balance in patriarchal society	7
Decoding evidence-based entrepreneurship: A systematic review of meta-analytic choices and reporting	7
The role of board design in small-firm crisis response	7
Opening the black box of venture capitalists’ evaluation of entrepreneurial teams	7
How university business incubation supports entrepreneurs in technology-based and creative industries: A comparative study	7
Heroes of the Green Room – How able successors revitalize and reinvent family firms	7
The impact of explorative and exploitative collaborations on SMEs innovative performance	6
Bricolage and new-venture performance: conditions of digitalization, causation, and effectuation	6
The eudaimonic well-being of entrepreneurs: A gendered perspective	6
Different strokes for different folks: A review of SME decline and turnaround	6
Party platforms and entrepreneurial pathways: Exploring the impact of political parties on venture formation	6
Academics and entrepreneurs: Enablers of hybrid identity centrality among university researchers	6
How the tone of mass media news affects pledge amounts in reward crowdfunding campaigns	6
The family business CEO: A review of insights and opportunities for advancement	6
Challenges for growing SMEs: A managerial perspective	6
Assessing motivational factors and effectual mechanisms’ impact on developing radical innovation in small firms	6
When the tank is empty: Reviewing burnout in entrepreneurship	6
Two acts, one stage: Crowdfunding and the power of self-presentation in times of crisis	6
Retaining reluctant successors in family firms: The roles of childhood exposure and affective commitment	6
Linking green marketing and SMEs performance: A psychometric meta-analysis	6
Attracting nonfamily applicants to the family firm: A signaling theory approach	5
Toward a theory of entrepreneurial orientation and technology fit in SMEs	5
Beyond educating students about business failure: The role of optimism training and hope	5
Racial disparities in the small business loan market	5
Bourdieusian and resource-based perspectives on ethnic minority microbusinesses: The construction of a culture-induced entrepreneurship model	5
Generative artificial intelligence use and configurational pathways to innovation performance in start-ups	5
Loan size concentration under the UK enterprise finance guarantee scheme and SME access to finance	5
The board as a guide for learning in growing SMEs	5
International new ventures: Beyond definitional debates to advancing the cornerstone of international entrepreneurship	5
The new normal: The status quo of AI adoption in SMEs	5