World Bank Enterprise Surveys
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Surveys and administrative records of firms and plants, including private firms.
Key findings#
- From Nov 2023 to Oct 2026, 234 archived papers mentioned World Bank Enterprise Surveys in their title, abstract or keywords (the search of earlier months' full texts is still under way), most of them in Sep 2026 (14).
- World Bank Enterprise Surveys was mentioned in 10 papers in the last 30 days (2026-10-07 to 2026-11-05), ranking #26 of the 246 datasets mentioned.
- By journal category: Economics (4), Management (3), Finance (2) and Marketing (1).
- Most of them appeared in The Journal of Technology Transfer (1), Small Business Economics (1) and Journal of Economics and Finance (1).
- From 2017 to 2026 (so far), World Bank Enterprise Surveys was mentioned in 296 papers in the tracked journals, most of them in economics (125), management (91) and finance (35).
- 68 of them were published in 2025, against 2 in 2017.
- Since 2023, the institutions with the most of these papers were University of Birmingham (7), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (6) and University of Leeds (6).
- The journals publishing most of them were Small Business Economics (16), Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (10) and Journal of Business Research (8).
- The most-cited of them is “How do digital capabilities affect firm performance? The mediating role of technological capabilities in the “new normal”” (Journal of Innovation & Knowledge, 2022), with 414 citations.
- Papers use World Bank Enterprise Surveys most often with World Development Indicators (World Bank) (35), Worldwide Governance Indicators (18) and Eurostat (15); it has 41 partners in the code and data network, in the group around World Development…, Eurostat, International Energy….
Mentions over 36 months#
| Trend | Nov 23–Oct 24 | Nov 24–Oct 25 | Nov 25–Oct 26 | 36 months |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 75 | 73 | 86 | 234 |
Papers per year#
20172026 (so far)
| Category | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026 (so far) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Economics | 2 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 27 | 35 | 27 |
| Management | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 22 | 19 | 24 |
| Finance | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 12 |
| AI | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 |
| Information Systems | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| Operations Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Statistics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Accounting | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Higher Education and Research | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Marketing | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| All categories | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 32 | 76 | 68 | 77 |
Where the papers come from#
| # | Journal | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Small Business Economics | 16 |
| 2 | Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 10 |
| 3 | Journal of Business Research | 8 |
| 4 | International Review of Economics & Finance | 7 |
| 5 | Journal of Business Ethics | 6 |
| 6 | AI & Society | 6 |
| 7 | Review of World Economics | 6 |
| 8 | Journal of Development Economics | 5 |
| 9 | Journal of Evolutionary Economics | 5 |
| 10 | Management International Review | 5 |
| # | Institution | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Birmingham | 7 |
| 2 | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique | 6 |
| 3 | University of Leeds | 6 |
| 4 | Université d'Orléans | 6 |
| 5 | King's College London | 5 |
| 6 | University of Johannesburg | 5 |
| 7 | University of Notre Dame | 5 |
| 8 | University of Pretoria | 5 |
| 9 | World Bank | 5 |
| 10 | Cairo University | 4 |
| # | Country | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Kingdom | 58 |
| 2 | United States | 45 |
| 3 | Italy | 30 |
| 4 | Germany | 29 |
| 5 | China | 23 |
| 6 | France | 18 |
| 7 | Spain | 17 |
| 8 | Australia | 16 |
| 9 | South Africa | 13 |
| 10 | India | 11 |
| # | Keyword | Papers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | small and medium-sized enterprises | 33 |
| 2 | firm size | 22 |
| 3 | developing countries | 21 |
| 4 | COVID-19 pandemic | 18 |
| 5 | business innovation | 16 |
| 6 | firm performance | 16 |
| 7 | World Bank Enterprise Survey | 14 |
| 8 | global value chains | 13 |
| 9 | innovation | 13 |
| 10 | manufacturing companies | 13 |
Most-cited papers#
Used together with#
| Used with | Type | Papers using both | Lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Development Indicators (World Bank) | Dataset | 35 | 6.0 |
| Worldwide Governance Indicators | Dataset | 18 | 6.4 |
| Eurostat | Dataset | 15 | 1.6 |
| Corruption Perceptions Index | Dataset | 13 | 10.2 |
| Dataset | 12 | 0.6 | |
| Economic freedom indices | Dataset | 11 | 9.3 |
| Economic Policy Uncertainty index | Dataset | 10 | 0.7 |
| Global Findex | Dataset | 10 | 11.3 |
| World Values Survey | Dataset | 10 | 5.4 |
| World Bank Doing Business | Dataset | 9 | 9.6 |
| Global Financial Development Database | Dataset | 7 | 12.4 |
| Marketization index (Fan Gang) | Dataset | 7 | 1.7 |
| Date | Title | Journal | Authors | Affiliations |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | Foreign technology adoption, democracy and SME innovation | The Journal of Technology Transfer | Olufemi Aluko, Shima Amini, Rilwan Sakariyahu | University of South Africa; Heriot-Watt University; University of Leeds; … |
| 2026-10-28 | Local institutional quality, firm size, and innovation: evidence from Italy | Small Business Economics | Stefano Amato, Greta Falavigna, Érica Santini et al. | University of Trento; Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth; Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica Sostenibile; … |
| 2026-10-26 | The effect of urban density on stock returns: evidence from satellite imagery and firms in the United States | Journal of Economics and Finance | Mahsa Memarian, Carles Vergara‐Alert, Sara Benetti | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; IESE Business School; ESE Business School; … |
| 2026-10-23 | Do media narratives shape foreign ownership? Evidence from African regions | Research in International Business and Finance | Andrea Fronzetti Colladon, Roberto Vestrelli, Stefania Bait et al. | Roma Tre University; University of Perugia; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; … |
| 2026-10-23 | Competition, Digitalization, and Innovation: Empirical Evidence from Developing and Emerging Economies | Journal of Industry Competition and Trade | Riham Ahmed Ezzat | Cairo University |
| 2026-10-21 | Return on AI (RoAI): A framework for assessing AI investments in the marketing organization | Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science | Vamsi Krishna Kanuri, Adithya Pattabhiramaiah, Shrihari Sridhar | University of Notre Dame; Texas A&M University |
| 2026-10-21 | Buffering institutional erosion: organizational ties and SME exports under populism | Journal of International Business Studies | Xiaolong Shui, Luyang Chen, Michael Witt | University of Bristol; University of Westminster; King's College London |
| 2026-10-21 | Global value chains and credit risk in times of exogenous shocks | Review of World Economics | Filomena Pietrovito, Chiara Franco | University of Molise; University of Pisa |
| 2026-10-15 | Does entrepreneurship policy reform institutional conditions? Evidence from India’s Startup India programme | Future Business Journal | Gourav Aggarwal, Smita Kashiramka | O. P. Jindal Global University; Indian Institute of Technology Delhi |
| 2026-10-13 | Firms’ renewable energy adoption and energy taxes: How institutional quality matters | Energy Policy | Sabrina Ruberto | Magna Graecia University |
Cite this page
Scholar4AI. (2026). World Bank Enterprise Surveys. Journal and Conference Research Rankings. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://scholar4ai.com/datasets/world-bank-enterprise-surveys
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