✅ Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1. Alinasab, J., Siahtiri, V., & O’Cass, A. Affordable Loss Meets Staging Logic: How Complementary Heuristics Drive Small Firms’ Internationalization. (2026). Journal of Business Research, accepted for publication. [ABDC: A | CABS: 3 | IF: 8.1]
DOI: In press (accepted for publication)
2. Alinasab, J., & Hunt, R. A. (2026). A Pragmatist View of Small Firms’ Foreign Market Entry. Public Organization Review, 1–29. [SJR: Q1 | CABS: 2 | IF: 1.7]
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11115-026-01015-2
3. Alinasab, J., Mather, D., Parackal, M., & Briamonte, M. F. (2026). Effectuation in action: how pre-commitments drive international performance. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 22(1), 8. [ABDC: A | CABS: 3 | IF: 6.2]
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-025-01127-z
4. Alinasab, J., & Hunt, R. A. (2025). Real Options Reasoning and the Internationalization of Small Firms: A Review and Agenda for Future Research. Management International Review, 65(5), 821–849. [ABDC: A | CABS: 3 | IF: 7.5]
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-025-00584-6
5. Alinasab, J., Khvatova, T., Caputo, F., & Mirahmadi, S. M. R. (2025). Small firms’ foreign market entry framework: rational and cognitive perspectives. International Marketing Review, 42(2–3), 386–411. [ABDC: A | CABS: 3 | IF: 5.91]
https://doi.org/10.1108/IMR-08-2023-0204
6. Alinasab, J., (2025). Hard Luck and Entrepreneurial Opportunity: A Philosophical Exploration of Adversity-Driven Innovation. Economics, Finance and Management Review, 1(21), 43–63. [Emerging Journal]
https://doi.org/10.36690/2674-5208-2025-1-43-63
7. Alinasab, J., Mirahmadi, S. M. R., Ghorbani, H., & Caputo, F. (2022). Discovering knowledge and cognitive based drivers for SMEs internationalization. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 13(3), 2490–2518. [ABDC: C | CABS: 2 | IF: 3.26]
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-021-00801-1
8. Alinasab, J., Mirahmadi, S. M. R., Ghorbani, H., & Caputo, F. (2022). Managing SMEs’ internationalisation process. A Delphi approach for identifying antecedent factors. International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting, 14(1), 1–19. [ABDC: B | CABS: 2 | IF: 1.4]
https://doi.org/10.1504/IJMFA.2022.120934
9. Alinasab, J.. (2022). The influence of managers’ marketing capabilities and international experience on SMEs’ export performance: the mediating effects of export commitment. Economics, Finance and Management Review, (1), 62–81.
https://doi.org/10.36690/2674-5208-2022-1-62
10. Alinasab, J., Ghorbani, H., & Hafezi, S. (2018). How Customer Knowledge Management Affects the Outcomes of Organizational Marketing Strategy. Journal of Organizational Behavior Research, 3(2), 1–14. [ABDC: C | IF: 0.104]
11. Alinasab, J.. (2014). Branches Performance Evaluation of System Group with the EFQM Approach Using DEA Models. Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences, 9(1), 139–148.
12. Alinasab, J., Ghandehari, M., & Ghorbani, H. (2014). A Suggested Evaluation Model for Employees’ Performance in IT-Based Organizations. International Journal of Economy, Management and Social Sciences, 3(11), 101–111.
13. Alinasab, J., & Sadeghi, M. (2014). Consideration of the Effect of Succession Planning Based on Management on Knowledge of Employees’ Satisfaction. Advances in Natural and Applied Sciences, 8(6), 920–934.
14. Alinasab, J., Ghandehari, M., & Nili, M. (2014). Application of Knowledge Management in CRM. TI Journals, 4(9), 193.
🔄 Under Review / Revise & Resubmit
1. Alinasab, J., Siahtiri, V., & O’Cass, A. SME Decision-Making Logics and Internationalization: An Integrative Review of Real Options and Control-Oriented Logic Literature. Under review: Journal of World Business. [ABDC: A* | CABS: 4 | IF: 8.8]
2. Alinasab, J., Mather, D., & Parackal, M. Small Steps, Smart Controls: Navigating Irreversibility in Small Firms’ Internationalization. Under review: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research. [ABDC: A | IF: 3.5]
3. Alinasab, J.. Leveraging AI for More Flexible, Adaptable, and Successful Internationalization Strategies. Under review: Thunderbird International Business Review. [SJR: Q2]
4. Jahanshahi, A. A., et al., & Alinasab, J.. (2025). Does Your Life Have Meaning? Social Entrepreneurial Intentions Through Dark and Light Triad Traits. Second-round review: Journal of Environmental Psychology. [ABDC: A | ABS: 3 | SJR: Q1]
5. Jahanshahi, A. A., et al., & Alinasab, J.. (2025). Holistic and Analytic Thinking as Individual Differences in Entrepreneurship. Under review: Acta Psychologica. [ABDC: A | SJR: Q1]
6. Alinasab, J.. Orchestrating Entrepreneurial Heuristics: A Systematic Narrative Review of Complementarity, Sequencing, and Conflict. Under review: Journal of Global Entrepreneurship Research. [SJR: Q1 | IF: 1.4]
7. Alinasab, J., & Mirahmadi, M. R. Sustainable Internationalization in Entrepreneurial Firms: An Integrative Systematic Review. Under review: Journal of International Entrepreneurship. [SJR: Q1]
8. Alinasab, J., & Mirahmadi, M. R. Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Drive Innovation in Family Businesses: Pathways to Sustainable Growth. Under review: Journal of Family and Economic Issues. [SJR: Q2]
9. Alinasab, J., & Mirahmadi, M. R. Artificial Intelligence Affordances in Entrepreneurship: A Review and Agenda for Future Research. Under review: Technovation. [SJR: Q1]
10. Alinasab, J., & Mirahmadi, M. R. The Role of Entrepreneurial Artifacts and Design-Based Support Structures in Opportunity Development: A Systematic Literature Review. Under review: Entrepreneurship Research Journal. [SJR: Q2]
📘 Conference Proceedings
1. Alinasab, J., Mirahmadi, S. M. R., & Motevalli, Z. D. (2026). Digital Technologies and Strategic Flexibility in SME Internationalization: Integrating Real Options and Effectuation Perspectives. Paper accepted at the 86th AOM Annual Meeting, IM Division, Philadelphia, PA, July 31 – August 4.
2. Jahanshahi, A. A., …, & Alinasab, J.. (2025). Does Your Life Have Meaning? Social Entrepreneurial Intentions Through Dark and Light Triad Traits. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2025, No. 1, p. 14001. [Top-tier conference proceedings]
3. Alinasab, J.. (2023). Small Firms’ Options for Foreign Market Entry. Proceedings of the ANZMAC Doctoral Colloquium 2023.
4. Alinasab, J.. (2022). International Market Entry: Prioritization of Strategies for Entering International Markets for SMEs. Proceedings of the 1st Conference on Management, Industrial Engineering, Accounting and Economics, Vienna, Austria.
5. Alinasab, J., Hafezi, S., & Ghorbani, H. (2018). Experiential Marketing in B2B (Industrial) Marketing: Prioritizing Effective Factors Using Fuzzy AHP Method. Proceedings of the 6th National Conference on Management and Engineering Industries, Tehran, Iran.
🧪 Work in Progress
- Hunt, A. Yan, J. Alinasab, J. A Critical Review of Real Options Reasoning in Management and Entrepreneurship: From Financial Innovation to Strategic Framework. Preparing for Journal of Business Venturing (JBV).
- O’Cass, A. & Alinasab, J. New Venture Involvement of Customers in the New Product Development Process: A Systematic Literature Review. Preparing for Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS).