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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Lead user innovation and entrepreneurship: Analyzing the current state of research	132
COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding	130
Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes	125
Disentangling owners’ emotional determinants of the first-offer price for valuating small and medium-sized enterprises	103
The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context	99
When do negative emotions arise in entrepreneurship? A contextualized review of negative affective antecedents	95
Comparing the moderated impact of entrepreneurial orientation, market orientation, and entrepreneurial marketing on firm performance	72
The paths leading to harmonious and obsessive entrepreneurial passion	70
The role of flexibility, digitalization, and crisis response strategy for SMEs: Case of COVID-19	62
Financial literacy in SMEs: A systematic literature review and a framework for further inquiry	49
Microfoundations of entrepreneurial leadership: Successful women entrepreneurs in a developing economy	46
Bouncing back to the surface: Factors determining SME recovery	45
The female role model tactic: Theorizing change in tech entrepreneurship	44
I make my own rules: The role of rule-breaking and ethics in driving entrepreneurial intention and involvement	44
From belief to action: How constructive rule beliefs influence rule-breaking in entrepreneurial settings	38
Exploitative and exploratory search: Dynamic capabilities enhancing SME adaptation, new product development, and environmental performance	37
Unpacking the early alumni engagement of entrepreneurship graduates	37
He-said, she-said: A family science and gendered perspective of communication in small family businesses	36
Business model innovation and SME performance and performance variability: The role of CEO persistence	35
External finance and the growth of rural and urban SMEs in England	34
The power of family firm image in rewards-based crowdfunding	34
Does prior experience matter? A meta-analysis of the relationship between prior experience of entrepreneurs and firm performance	30
Social innovation in Saudi Arabia: The role of entrepreneurs’ spirituality, ego resilience and alertness	29
Intersectional dimensions of entrepreneurship among immigrant Hispanic women	29
Achieving high international market performance via simple vs complex configuration of international managerial network ties: A set theoretic approach across two countries	29

The impact of startup subsidies on survival, growth, and stakeholder value	28
Understanding micro-level resilience enactment of everyday entrepreneurs under threat	27
Choice or chance: How successful entrepreneurs talk about luck	26
Origin of Korean entrepreneurship	26
Open innovation in SMEs: A process view towards business model innovation	26
Exploring the benefits and risks of displayed passion in entrepreneurial pitches	25
Drivers and success factors of digital entrepreneurship: A systematic literature review and future research agenda	25
Unconventional philosophies and practices: Vietnamese family firm performance in multiple countries	24
Eco-innovations in family SMEs: Understanding the role of financial performance satisfaction	23
Enhancing digital innovation in developing countries: Organizational improvisation and resource constraints in digital entrepreneurial firms	23
Hybrid entrepreneurs: The value of experience	23
Cross-level effects of entrepreneurial orientation and ambidexterity on the resilience of small business owners	22
Government finance, loans, and guarantees for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) (2000–2021): A systematic review	22
Termination of nascent entrepreneurship: The central effects of action crisis in new venture creation	20
Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go?	20
Can playing defense yield gains? Examining the relationships among regulatory focus, innovation, and SME performance	20
Why bother teaching entrepreneurship? A field quasi-experiment on the behavioral outcomes of compulsory entrepreneurship education	20
Transmission of entrepreneurial identity across generations in business families: Understanding the effect of family communications	19
Forced transgenerational succession: Insights from a South African family business	19
Lessons on small business resilience	19
Gender role congruity and crowdfunding success	18
The process of growing in small firms: Exploring dialectic adjustments to nonroutine disruption	17
Agility and improvisation in Ontario’s craft breweries: Capabilities for constraints-based innovation	16
What we say = what we think? How implicit beliefs shape nascent entrepreneurial behavior	16
Family firms’ survival in an economic downturn: The role of ownership concentration and collaborative intensity	16
A configurational approach to strategic change in family firms	16
The spectrum of perceived uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation: Impacts on effectuation	15
A disaggregated view of soft skills: Entrepreneurship education systems of Africa	15
New venture teams and acquisition: Team composition matters	15
Building strategic human capital resources: The effects of strategic entrepreneurship on employee recruitment and retention	14
The implications of crypto hacker attacks on financing new ventures	14
Making the case for digital transformation: Digital entrepreneurship and on-demand service innovation	14
The Effect of Online Discussion Boards on Equity Crowdfunding Dynamics	14
Entrepreneurs’ Information-Seeking Behaviors in the Digital Age–A Systematic Literature Review	14
Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance	13
Serial entrepreneurs: A review of literature and guidance for future research	13
R&D investment, innovation, and export performance: An analysis of SME and large firms	13
Pre-start-up internationalization mindsets trigger action	13
Peer-to-peer lending: Exploring borrowers’ motivations and expectations	13
Clearing the hurdles: Revisiting the under-performance hypothesis for women-led VC funded firms	12
Applicant attraction to new ventures: The combined effects of entrepreneurs’ physical attractiveness and gender	12
FsQCA in entrepreneurship research: Opportunities and best practices	12
The phantom push: a reevaluation of necessity entrepreneurship	12
Valuing failure: An experiment of VC reactions to an entrepreneur’s record of business creation	12
Mobilizing potential slack and firm performance: Evidence from French SMEs before and during the COVID-19 period	12
Life satisfaction of family business members: The role of socioemotional wealth goals and psychological functioning	12
Equity split evolution in entrepreneurial teams: Assessing financial contributions and human capital	12
Getting to the one: Prioritizing an idea set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics	12
Dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurship—DyCE: A new domain for theoretical and empirical research	12
Exploring the effects of institutional logics on entrepreneurial opportunity evaluations in emerging economies	11

The prediction of future cash flow for UK private companies	11
It’s “time” to “talk” about entrepreneurial alertness	11
Financing women entrepreneurship in the developing world: An fsQCA analysis of informal financing schemes	11
A systematic literature review on SME financing: Trends and future directions	11
Angel time horizon and industry preferences: The moderating role of personal wealth	11
Exploring innovation ecosystems to facilitate the adoption of sustainable entrepreneurship: Looking beyond the Western World	11
Signaling theory in entrepreneurial fundraising and crowdfunding research	10
Industry-relatedness, geographic proximity and strategic decisions of corporate and independent venture capital-backed companies	10
From athletes to entrepreneurs: Participation in youth sports as a precursor to future business endeavors	10
Resilience building among small businesses in low-income neighborhoods	10
A guide to becoming green: Insights from angel investors developing sustainability-specific knowledge	10
Entrepreneurial identity formation in family firms: the transgenerational impact of parents’ fear of failure	10
Digital communities of inquiry: How online communities support entrepreneurial opportunity development	9
Artificial intelligence machines as relational nonhuman actors in entrepreneurial teams	9
Assessing the importance of managerial and entrepreneurial experience in entrepreneurial training programs	9
The role of board design in small-firm crisis response	8
Effectuation processes of social media and student entrepreneurs in South Korea	8
Decoding decision-making: The interplay of cognitive processes and working capital management constraints in new ventures	8
Applying resource-based theory to social value creation: A conceptual model of contributive advantage	8
“Hasta la vista, baby” – will machine learning terminate human literature reviews in entrepreneurship?	7
Heroes of the Green Room – How able successors revitalize and reinvent family firms	7
Entrepreneurial challenges of COVID-19: Re-thinking entrepreneurship after the crisis	7
Are bricoleurs more satisfied? How bricolage affects entrepreneur job satisfaction among experienced versus novice entrepreneurs	7
How university business incubation supports entrepreneurs in technology-based and creative industries: A comparative study	7
Family firm entrepreneurship: An experimental study	7
Different strokes for different folks: A review of SME decline and turnaround	7
Decoding evidence-based entrepreneurship: A systematic review of meta-analytic choices and reporting	7
Opening the black box of venture capitalists’ evaluation of entrepreneurial teams	6
Owner-manager emotions and strategic responses of small family businesses to the COVID-19 pandemic	6
The impact of explorative and exploitative collaborations on SMEs innovative performance	6
How the tone of mass media news affects pledge amounts in reward crowdfunding campaigns	6
Academics and entrepreneurs: Enablers of hybrid identity centrality among university researchers	6
Women entrepreneurs’ negotiation of the work–family balance in patriarchal society	6
When the tank is empty: Reviewing burnout in entrepreneurship	6
Linking green marketing and SMEs performance: A psychometric meta-analysis	6
“Living the dream” – a psychoanalytical exploration of franchisee autonomy	6
The pre-foundation evolution of proactiveness in born global and non-born global USOs	6
Assessing motivational factors and effectual mechanisms’ impact on developing radical innovation in small firms	6
Challenges for growing SMEs: A managerial perspective	6
Party platforms and entrepreneurial pathways: Exploring the impact of political parties on venture formation	6
The importance of literature reviews in small business and entrepreneurship research	6
Bricolage and new-venture performance: conditions of digitalization, causation, and effectuation	6
Digital marketing in SMEs via data-driven strategies: Reviewing the current state of research	5
Generative artificial intelligence use and configurational pathways to innovation performance in start-ups	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
International new ventures: Beyond definitional debates to advancing the cornerstone of international entrepreneurship	5
How does a subsequent entrepreneurship career choice develop? A set-theoretic analysis testing hope theory	5
Racial disparities in the small business loan market	5
Toward a theory of entrepreneurial orientation and technology fit in SMEs	5
The family business CEO: A review of insights and opportunities for advancement	5
Beyond educating students about business failure: The role of optimism training and hope	5
The new normal: The status quo of AI adoption in SMEs	5
Exploring the role of managerial and organizational capabilities for the inbound internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises	5
Bourdieusian and resource-based perspectives on ethnic minority microbusinesses: The construction of a culture-induced entrepreneurship model	5
The eudaimonic well-being of entrepreneurs: A gendered perspective	5
Attracting nonfamily applicants to the family firm: A signaling theory approach	5
A new business ecosystem for SMEs development in China: Key-node industry and industrial net	5