Journal of Small Business Management

2001 - 2025

Current editor(s): Eric Liguori

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Volume 61, issue 6, 2023

Revisiting SME default predictors: The Omega Score pp. 2383-2417

Edward I. Altman, Marco Balzano, Alessandro Giannozzi and Stjepan Srhoj

The room where it happened: Conversation analysis of entrepreneur meetups pp. 2418-2439

Howard Haines

Does financial development really spur nascent entrepreneurship in Europe? — A panel data analysis pp. 2440-2487

Brahim Gaies, Dorra Najar, Adnane Maalaoui, Sascha Kraus and Ayman El Tarabishy

Exploring founder identity tension, resolution, and venture pursuit pp. 2488-2518

Stephen Knox and Lucrezia Casulli

Open innovation in SMEs: A process view towards business model innovation pp. 2519-2560

Ekaterina Albats, Daria Podmetina and Wim Vanhaverbeke

Perceived importance of intellectual property protection methods by Korean SMEs involved in product innovation and their value appropriation pp. 2561-2587

Su Jung Jee and So Young Sohn

How frugal innovation and inclusive business are linked to tackle low-income markets pp. 2588-2621

Anne Lange, Stefan Hüsig and Martin Albert

Culture values and entrepreneurial innovativeness: A comparative study of Malaysian ethnic entrepreneurs pp. 2622-2655

Shehnaz Tehseen, Ping Deng, Bing Wu and Ying Gao

The why and the how: A nexus on how opportunity, risk and personality affect entrepreneurial intention pp. 2656-2689

Sabine Bergner, Julia Auburger and Dominik Paleczek

“Living the dream” – a psychoanalytical exploration of franchisee autonomy pp. 2690-2713

Joanne Larty and Gillian Hopkinson

CEO succession game in family firms: Owners vs. advisors pp. 2714-2731

Raj V. Mahto, David E. Cavazos, Andrea Calabrò and Jeff P. Vanevenhoven

New ventures going global: Cognition and context pp. 2732-2761

Kaitlyn DeGhetto, R. Michael Holmes, Bruce T. Lamont, Lorenzo Lucianetti and Mehmet M. Kasapoğlu

Forced transgenerational succession: Insights from a South African family business pp. 2762-2787

James M. Vardaman and Michelle Montague-Mfuni

Generative critical conversation: A method for developing reflexivity and criticality pp. 2788-2817

Jennifer Huntsley and Catherine Brentnall

Why I persist while others leave? Investigating the path from passion to persistence in entrepreneurship pp. 2818-2848

Ataullah Kiani, Ahmed Ali, Alessandro Biraglia and Dan Wang

Antecedents of strategic ambidexterity in firms’ product innovation: External knowledge and internal information sharing pp. 2849-2878

Liang Mei, Francesco Rentocchini and Jin Chen

Entrepreneurial alertness: Exploring its psychological antecedents and effects on firm outcomes pp. 2879-2908

Jintong Tang, Robert A. Baron and Andy Yu

The interplay of core self-evaluation and entrepreneurial self-efficacy in predicting entrepreneurial orientation pp. 2909-2937

Wayne H. Stewart, Whitney O. Peake and Amy E. Ingram

Does prior experience matter? A meta-analysis of the relationship between prior experience of entrepreneurs and firm performance pp. 2938-2985

Kangle Jiao, Yan Ling and Franz Kellermanns

What we say = what we think? How implicit beliefs shape nascent entrepreneurial behavior pp. 2986-3026

Robert Mai and Petra Dickel

Market orientation, failure learning orientation, and financial performance pp. 3027-3045

Grant Alexander Wilson and Eric Liguori

A new business ecosystem for SMEs development in China: Key-node industry and industrial net pp. 3046-3076

Binglei Zhang, Kamal Argheyd, Rick Molz and Bin He

Effectuation processes of social media and student entrepreneurs in South Korea pp. 3077-3120

Hwanho Choi

Ambidexterity: Size matters! Reflexive climate and organizational TMS’s influence and the contingent effect of size pp. 3121-3154

Pepijn van Neerijnen, Patrick Figge, Michiel P. Tempelaar and Michaéla Schippers

The value of leadership practices when there is no one to lead: A nascent entrepreneurship context pp. 3155-3191

Lucia Walsh and Bruce Martin

The pre-foundation evolution of proactiveness in born global and non-born global USOs pp. 3192-3227

Lisa Messina and Nola Hewitt-Dundas

The role of creativity in knowledge workers’ entrepreneurial intentions: The moderating effect of general self-efficacy pp. 3228-3254

Anna-Maija Nisula and Heidi Olander

Public administration and new venture startups: The association between economic development and the role of bureaucracy in startup activity pp. 3255-3283

Pankaj C. Patel and Marcus Wolfe

The Effect of Online Discussion Boards on Equity Crowdfunding Dynamics pp. 3284-3314

Denis Iurchenko, Jeffrey S. Petty and Joern Block

Volume 61, issue 5, 2023

Introduction to the special issue on entrepreneurship processes pp. 2189-2197

Laura Castaldi, William E. Jackson, Louis Marino and Diego Matricano

Speed and learning in the opportunity development process pp. 2198-2226

Tadeu F. Nogueira, Andrew C. Corbett, Joshua V. White and Tommy H. Clausen

Predicting New Venture Gestation Outcomes With Machine Learning Methods pp. 2227-2260

Paris Koumbarakis and Thierry Volery

Getting to the one: Prioritizing an idea set using preference-based decision-specific heuristics pp. 2261-2301

Daniel R. Clark, Matthias A. Tietz and Maya Kumar

The role of work-to-venture role conflict on hybrid entrepreneurs’ transition into entrepreneurship pp. 2302-2325

Jon C. Carr, David R. Marshall, Timothy L. Michaelis, Jeffrey M. Pollack and Lewis Sheats

COVID-19 and entrepreneurial processes in US equity crowdfunding pp. 2326-2349

Douglas Cumming and Robert S. Reardon

Valuing failure: An experiment of VC reactions to an entrepreneur’s record of business creation pp. 2350-2381

Anna Souakri, Régis Coeurderoy and Andrew Zacharakis

Volume 61, issue 4, 2023

Familiness and innovation outcomes in family firms: The mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation pp. 1345-1377

Marko R. Jocic, Michael H. Morris and Donald F. Kuratko

Board secretary’s financial experience, overconfidence, and SMEs’ financing preference: Evidence from China’s NEEQ market pp. 1378-1410

Kun Wang, Yaozhi Chen, Yao Liu and Yingkai Tang

The family factor: How collaborative dialogue between owner managers and the owner family shapes firm-level outcomes pp. 1411-1450

Annika Halder, Reinhard Prügl, Nils D. Kraiczy and Andreas Hack

Business builders, contractors, and entrepreneurs — An exploratory study of IP venturing funds pp. 1451-1496

Svenja Jarchow and Andrea Röhm

Why do academic scientists participate in academic entrepreneurship? An empirical investigation of department context and the antecedents of entrepreneurial behavior pp. 1497-1528

Miao Wang, Jianfeng Cai, Danny Soetanto and Ying Guo

A behavioral view of SME product termination decisions pp. 1529-1562

Brian T. McCann and George A. Shinkle

Measuring workplace innovation: Scale development pp. 1563-1582

A. J. McMurray, N. Muenjohn and D. Scott

Process innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises: The critical roles of external knowledge sourcing and absorptive capacity pp. 1583-1610

Omid Aliasghar, Arash Sadeghi and Elizabeth L. Rose

Exploring digital transformation and dynamic capabilities in agrifood SMEs pp. 1611-1637

Rita Cannas

Search behavior and decision confidence in equity crowdfunding: An information search process model perspective pp. 1638-1671

Sana Zafar, Jacob Waddingham, Miles Zachary and Jeremy Short

Transforming entrepreneurial orientation into performance in family SMEs: Are nonfamily CEOs better than family CEOs? pp. 1672-1703

Jonathan Bauweraerts, Claudia Pongelli, Salvatore Sciascia, Pietro Mazzola and Alessandro Minichilli

Does intergenerational leadership hinder the realization of innovation potential? A resource orchestration perspective pp. 1704-1735

Yong Wang and Ahmad Beltagui

Debt maturity and SMEs: Do auditor’s quality and ownership structure matter? pp. 1736-1772

Isabel Feito-Ruiz, Clara Cardone-Riportella and Elisa Ughetto

Founding team homogeneity and network positioning: The moderating role of environmental and organizational factors pp. 1773-1805

Lei Xu, Juan Ling and Haemin Dennis Park

Performance implications of technological uncertainty, age, and size for small businesses pp. 1806-1841

Paul Louis Drnevich and Joel West

“Let them not make me a stone”—repositioning entrepreneurship pp. 1842-1870

Sarah Dodd, Alistair Anderson and Sarah Jack

Double-threshold effect of technological innovation on environmental-responsibility fulfillment: Evidence from high-polluting SMEs in China pp. 1871-1895

Feifei Yu, JiaYu Cao and Ye Shi

A multilevel analysis of the technological impact of university-SME joint innovations pp. 1896-1928

Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli and Gianluca Murgia

Explaining technological innovation of the clustered firms: Internal and relational factors pp. 1929-1960

Luis Martínez-Cháfer, F. Xavier Molina-Morales and Norat Roig-Tierno

Inheriting the legacy but not the business: When and where do family nonsuccessors become entrepreneurial? pp. 1961-1990

James G. Combs, Peter Jaskiewicz, Sabine B. Rau and Ridhima Agrawal

Curbing franchisee failure: A systematic review of the empirical evidence pp. 1991-2037

Olufunmilola (Lola) Dada

Keeping a keen edge: Social support among new venture team members and venture goal commitment pp. 2038-2070

Ying Chen and Kim Klyver

From entrepreneurial experience to expertise: A self-regulated learning perspective pp. 2071-2096

Christoph Winkler, Alexander Fust and Tobias Jenert

The Dark Triad’s incremental influence on entrepreneurial intentions pp. 2097-2125

Benjamin D. McLarty, Vitaliy Skorodziyevskiy and Jeffrey Muldoon

Knowledge management practices and innovation: A deliberate innovation management model for SMEs pp. 2126-2159

Haibo Zhou, Lorraine M. Uhlaner and Martijn Jungst

Institutional forces and knowledge search strategies as predictors of entrepreneurial venture performance pp. 2160-2188

Jie Wu, Patrick J. Murphy, Jean Jinghan Chen and Michele D. Bunn

Volume 61, issue 3, 2023

The importance of literature reviews in small business and entrepreneurship research pp. 1095-1106

Sascha Kraus, Raj V. Mahto and Steven T. Walsh

Serial entrepreneurs: A review of literature and guidance for future research pp. 1107-1142

Marina Dabic, Božidar Vlačić, Timothy Kiessling, Andrea Caputo and Massimiliano Pellegrini

Capabilities and Performance of Early Internationalizing Firms: A Systematic Literature Review pp. 1143-1173

Shuijing Jie, Rainer Harms, Aard J. Groen and Paul Jones

Lead user innovation and entrepreneurship: Analyzing the current state of research pp. 1174-1191

Octavio Escobar, Francesco Schiavone, Tatiana Khvatova and Adnane Maalaoui

Corporate social responsibility in family firms: A systematic literature review pp. 1192-1246

Marcello M. Mariani, Khowlah Al-Sultan and Alfredo De Massis

A systematic literature review on SME financing: Trends and future directions pp. 1247-1277

Purnima Rao, Satish Kumar, Meena Chavan and Weng Marc Lim

Digital marketing in SMEs via data-driven strategies: Reviewing the current state of research pp. 1278-1313

Jose Ramon Saura, Daniel Palacios-Marqués and Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano

“Hasta la vista, baby” – will machine learning terminate human literature reviews in entrepreneurship? pp. 1314-1343

Sebastian Robledo, Andrés Mauricio Grisales Aguirre, Mathew Hughes and Fabian Eggers

Volume 61, issue 2, 2023

Is that an opportunity? Global versus local processing of technological and socioeconomic constraints pp. 187-225

Eric Shaunn Mattingly, Manju K. Ahuja, Andrew S. Manikas and Trayan N. Kushev

Specialized marketing capabilities and foreign expansion of the international new ventures pp. 226-264

Izabela Kowalik, Lidia Danik and Barbara Francioni

The role of motivations and self-concepts in university graduate entrepreneurs’ creativity and resilience pp. 265-294

Anna-Maija Nisula and Heidi Olander

“The person with maximum knowledge will win the race”: Conceptualizing knowledge in microbusinesses pp. 295-321

Muhibul Haq and Julie Davies

Evolution of the entrepreneurship and innovation research in Ibero-America between 1986 and 2015 pp. 322-352

Christian A. Cancino, José M. Merigó, David Urbano and J. Ernesto Amorós

What drives university engineering students to become entrepreneurs? Finding different recipes using a configuration approach pp. 353-383

Pierluigi Rippa, Gabriella Ferruzzi, Marian Holienka, Guido Capaldo and Alicia Coduras

The impact of information technology on product innovation in SMEs: The role of technological orientation pp. 384-410

Anders Haug, Kent Adsbøll Wickstrøm, Jan Stentoft and Kristian Philipsen

How knowledge shapes the scope of early business planning pp. 411-440

Joern Block and Jeffrey S. Petty

Stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainable entrepreneurship within the context of a developing economy pp. 441-480

Hien T. T. Nguyen, Laura A. Costanzo and Mine Karatas-Özkan

The impact of strategic partnerships on crowdfunding outcomes: Which ties really matter? pp. 481-512

Carol Theokary, Kumar Sarangee and Ekaterina V. Karniouchina

Are the self-employed more stressed? New evidence on an old question pp. 513-539

Soo Hoon Lee, Pankaj C. Patel and Phillip Phan

Perceived collaborative risk in small and medium technology enterprises pp. 540-559

Karol Marek Klimczak, Wojciech Machowiak, Yochanan Shachmurove and Iwona Staniec

Development of international market information in emerging economy family SMEs: The role of participative governance pp. 560-589

Reza Zaefarian, Misagh Tasavori, Teck-Yong Eng and Mehmet Demirbag

Economic and institutional determinants of lease financing for European SMEs: An analysis across developing and developed countries pp. 590-611

Ana Mol-Gómez-Vázquez, Ginés Hernández-Cánovas and Johanna Köeter-Kant

Firm-environment alignment of entrepreneurial opportunity exploitation in technology-based ventures: A configurational approach pp. 612-658

Esin Yoruk and Paul Jones

How would autonomist and autocratic teammates affect individual satisfaction on prefounding entrepreneurship teams? pp. 659-703

Chihmao Hsieh and Woo Jin Lee

Contracts and communication among family members: Business succession from a contractual view pp. 704-737

Sabrina Schell, Sven Wolff and Petra Moog

Cognitive styles and entrepreneurial intentions: A cross-cultural comparison pp. 738-768

Nawaf Alabduljader, George T. Solomon, Jae Hyeung Kang, David Y. Choi and Sulaiman T. Al-Abduljader

Training and performance in SMEs: Empirical evidence from large-scale data from the UK pp. 769-801

Bochra Idris, George Saridakis and Stewart Johnstone

Alliance portfolio management capabilities, corporate entrepreneurship, and relative firm performance in SMEs pp. 802-830

Kamal Sakhdari, J. Henri Burgers and Per Davidsson

Talking about a revolution? Costly and costless signals and the role of innovativeness in equity crowdfunding pp. 831-862

Francesca Di Pietro, Luca Grilli and Francesca Masciarelli

The paradox of investment timing in small business: Why do firms invest when it is too late? pp. 863-905

Bach Nguyen, Chau Le and Xuan Vinh Vo

Dividends and tax avoidance as drivers of earnings management: Evidence from dividend-paying private SMEs in Finland pp. 906-937

Jussi Karjalainen, Eero Kasanen, Juha Kinnunen and Jyrki Niskanen

Using functional neuroimaging to advance entrepreneurial cognition research pp. 938-966

Sebastiano Massaro, Will Drover, Moran Cerf and Keith M. Hmieleski

Trusting the crowd: Effects of crowdfunding on venture capital syndicates pp. 967-993

Ferdinand Thies, Alexander Huber, Carolin Bock and Alexander Benlian

Entrepreneurial orientation and international opportunity development by SMEs: The mediating role of decision-making logic pp. 994-1022

Masoud Karami, Arto Ojala and Sami Saarenketo

Configurations of business founder resources, strategy, and environment determining new venture performance pp. 1023-1061

Jonas Debrulle, Paul Steffens, Koen W. De Bock, Sophie De Winne and Johan Maes

Are you part of the crowd? The role of sex and environmental characteristics for crowdfunding awareness pp. 1062-1094

Egle Vaznyte, Petra Andries and Sophie Manigart

Volume 61, issue 1, 2023

Advancing entrepreneurial mindset: What do we know and where do we go? pp. 1-11

Benjamin D. McLarty, Jeffrey S. Hornsby and Eric W. Liguori

Entrepreneurial mindset: An integrated definition, a review of current insights, and directions for future research pp. 12-44

Joshua J. Daspit, Corey J. Fox and S. Kyle Findley

Entrepreneurial mindset: Dispositional beliefs, opportunity beliefs, and entrepreneurial behavior pp. 45-79

Robert J. Pidduck, Daniel R. Clark and G. T. Lumpkin

Entrepreneurial mindset shift and the role of cycles of learning pp. 80-101

Matthew P. Lynch and Andrew C. Corbett

The entrepreneurial mindset and poverty pp. 102-131

Michael H. Morris and Reginald Tucker

Entrepreneurial mindset in corporate entrepreneurship: Forms, impediments, and actions for research pp. 132-154

Donald F. Kuratko, Jeffrey S. Hornsby and Alexander McKelvie

Unpacking entrepreneurial alertness: How character matters for entrepreneurial thinking pp. 155-186

Homa Pirhadi, Sohrab Soleimanof and Alireza Feyzbakhsh