Journal of Small Business Management

2001 - 2026

Current editor(s): Eric Liguori

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Volume 64, issue 4, 2026

Why owls fly while ostriches flounder: An empirical study of advice takers and non–advice takers pp. 1331-1358

Ross Brown, Marc Cowling, Weixi Liu, Xinlun Song and Haoran Sun

A processual understanding of fear of failure: Insights from small-business entrepreneurs affected by a crisis pp. 1359-1401

Nabil Khelil, Rozenn Perrigot and Anna Watson

Retaining reluctant successors in family firms: The roles of childhood exposure and affective commitment pp. 1402-1437

John James Cater, Roland Kidwell, Megan A. Harper and Marilyn Young

Underinvestment in cyber security: Quantifying cyber security behavior in UK businesses pp. 1438-1473

Anna Cartwright and Edward Cartwright

Enhancing sustainable performance through sustainable business model innovation pp. 1474-1520

Bruno Futre and Nuno Fernandes Crespo

Two acts, one stage: Crowdfunding and the power of self-presentation in times of crisis pp. 1521-1558

Syrine Adala, Carolin Bock and Konstantin Kurz

Entrepreneurs as influencers: The role of female entrepreneurs in small business development pp. 1559-1585

Safiya Mukhtar Alshibani, Reeti Agarwal, Ankit Mehrotra, Dhruv Galgotia and Nidhi Sahore

Leverage cyclicality and the role of collateral: A comparative study of SMEs and large firms pp. 1586-1627

Smita Joshi

Towards a theory of transitional bricolage pp. 1628-1660

Noor Muhammad, John D. Nicholson and Andrew Johnston

The antecedents of family-centered performance in SME family firms: An organizational positivity perspective pp. 1661-1691

Özgür Atılgan, Franz Kellermanns, Esra Memili and Brianna Caza

Big data driven supply chains in SMEs: The role of industry digitalization pp. 1692-1715

Emma Savimäki, Heli Hallikainen, Mika Gabrielsson and Tommi Laukkanen

New venture team trust: Perceptions of new human, AI and AI-augmented teammates during funding activities pp. 1716-1747

Harry Spurrier, Rajeev Kamineni, Manjula Dissanayake and Noel Lindsay

Volume 64, issue 3, 2026

Family business research: The next generation pp. 867-886

Benjamin D. McLarty, James Vardaman, Eric Liguori, Laura E. Marler and Alfredo De Massis

I make my own rules: The role of rule-breaking and ethics in driving entrepreneurial intention and involvement pp. 887-924

Leidy Cubillos-Pinilla, Sylvia Hubner-Benz, Pierre Balthazard, Franziska Emmerling and Claudia Peus

Family firm heterogeneity and innovation: The role of firm origin and family involvement pp. 925-968

Saier Su, Fei Zhu, Haibo Zhou and Zhijing Zhu

Different strokes for different folks: A review of SME decline and turnaround pp. 969-1002

Friedrich Franz Forstner, Roberto Vassolo and Angel Sevil

Family business background and entrepreneurial intention: A cross-country and cultural factors-based moderated mediation model pp. 1003-1033

Muhammad Arshad, Sarfraz Zaman, Sadia Afzal and Christina Theodoraki

Knowledge is power: A configurational model of information processing and entrepreneurial decision making pp. 1034-1065

Michael McDaniel and Krista Lewellyn

Microfoundations of entrepreneurial leadership: Successful women entrepreneurs in a developing economy pp. 1066-1105

Shezeen Hemani, Sara Carter and Dominic Chalmers

The bright side of authoritarian leadership in family firms: An emotional attachment perspective on innovativeness pp. 1106-1140

Chelsea Sherlock, David R. Marshall, Clay Dibrell and Eric Clinton

Contextualizing talent management: A practice-based study of Turkish SMEs and large organizations pp. 1141-1181

Daniel Tyskbo and Cemil Eren Firtin

The gendered art of the pitch: How entrepreneurs’ gender identity in roadshows affects financing performance pp. 1182-1216

Qian Zhang, Jie Chen, Jing Liu and Xiaoyun Ren

Credit constraints and the high-growth potential of SMEs: A cross-country analysis pp. 1217-1255

Frederic Nlemvo and Ghassen Bouslama

Understanding entrepreneurs’ loneliness: An integrative review of loneliness in management research pp. 1256-1295

Maren C. Umdasch and Elisabeth S. C. Berger

Synergizing causation and effectuation for innovation in Chinese new ventures pp. 1296-1330

Zhuxin Ye, Yunjie Song, Jun Li and Yiyuan Mai

Volume 64, issue 2, 2026

Personality and succession: A call for future inquiry pp. 483-504

Benjamin D. McLarty, Michele N. Medina-Craven, Maria Bracamonte, B. Parker Ellen and Eric Liguori

Generative artificial intelligence use and configurational pathways to innovation performance in start-ups pp. 505-562

Colin Donaldson, Gabriel Linton and Joshua Bendickson

More is not always better: a psychological reactance perspective on legacy stories pp. 563-597

Yi Zhang, Jorge Arteaga-Fonseca, Matthew W. Rutherford and Bryan D. Edwards

Joint ownership between family and steward private equity investors: an ownership-competence view pp. 598-637

Christopher Khoury, Nava Michael-Tsabari and Nadine Kammerlander

Blending minds, balancing goals: TMT heterogeneity and sustainable-innovation in family firms pp. 638-669

Mahdi Vesal, Muhammad Aftab Alam and Mohammad H. Rahmati

The effect of students’ financial literacy on entrepreneurial intention pp. 670-703

Guillaume Thevenet and Anaïs Hamelin

The generational divide: How late entrant entrepreneurs influenced field frames in the Ontario wine field pp. 704-738

Laura Ierfino-Blachford and Sean Campeau

SMEs employment growth under heterogeneous credit constraints pp. 739-780

Ioannis Vlassas, Nicholas Giannakopoulos and Christos Kallandranis

Defaulting alone: SME owner numbers and credit risk in Hungary pp. 781-807

Csaba Burger

Dynamic capabilities in entrepreneurship—DyCE: A new domain for theoretical and empirical research pp. 808-824

Diego Matricano

The implications of crypto hacker attacks on financing new ventures pp. 825-866

Viktor Manahov and Mingnan Li

Volume 64, issue 1, 2026

Individual entrepreneurial orientation: analyzing what we know, what we need to know, and future directions pp. 1-50

Izaias Martins and Juan P. Perez

Untangling the threads: Exploring the non-financial constructs in family firms pp. 51-84

Maria Bracamonte, Myles Melancon, Erik Markin, Tyler Burch, Alyssa Bevacqua and Destiny Orr

Stabilizing a family business: the transformation of family through the adoption of the family constitution pp. 85-119

Vinod Thakur and Sabyasachi Sinha

Psychological perspectives on faith-driven persistence in self-employment: The mediating role of mental health and well-being pp. 120-162

Sean M. Dwyer, Boris Nikolaev, Steven W. Bradley and Mitchell J. Neubert

Problemistic search for a better world: risk-taking of social ventures in alleviating poverty pp. 163-192

Junyon Im and Sunny Li Sun

Loan size concentration under the UK enterprise finance guarantee scheme and SME access to finance pp. 193-224

Marc Cowling, Weixi Liu, Huan Yang and Nicholas Wilson

Enhancing digital innovation in developing countries: Organizational improvisation and resource constraints in digital entrepreneurial firms pp. 225-252

Adeel Tariq, Marina Dabić, Muhammad Saleem Sumbal, Syeda Nida Zaidi and Muhammad Shujahat

The female role model tactic: Theorizing change in tech entrepreneurship pp. 253-286

Lærke Højgaard Christiansen, Thomas Burø and Sille Bastrup

Leveraging network capability for small enterprise success: the critical roles of organizational capability and alertness pp. 287-310

Robert Zacca

Entrepreneurial identity formation in family firms: the transgenerational impact of parents’ fear of failure pp. 311-346

Seyyede Sharare Bagherian, Sonia M. Strano, Sohrab Soleimanof, Jon Carr and Alireza Feyzbakhsh

The phantom push: a reevaluation of necessity entrepreneurship pp. 347-374

Shelby J. Solomon, Alec N. Slepchuk, Justin Davis and Joshua S. Bendickson

Bricolage and new-venture performance: conditions of digitalization, causation, and effectuation pp. 375-413

Stephen E. Lanivich, Samuel Adomako, Nadia Zahoor, Shlomo Y. Tarba and Kyle Stockdall

It’s “time” to “talk” about entrepreneurial alertness pp. 414-444

Jintong Tang, Wenping Ye, Shaji A. Khan and Jun Yang

The eudaimonic well-being of entrepreneurs: A gendered perspective pp. 445-481

Albena Pergelova, Jeremy Zwiegelaar and Bryan Smale