OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychological ownership development in new venture teams	114
Is having immigrants in entrepreneurial teams good for equity crowdfunding success and long-term venture survival?	56
Being all things to all people: How gender shapes entrepreneurs’ multifaceted digital identities on X	54
It’s all about identity: The identity constructions of LGBT entrepreneurs from an intersectionality perspective	49
Rebellion against resilience? The experience of women entrepreneurs in the context of poly-crisis	39
Individual religious affiliation, religiosity and entrepreneurial intentions among students in four countries	36
Affect and adaptation in entrepreneurial goal pursuit	31
Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Society framework: A constructive critique from a climate change perspective	29
On the consequences of firm growth	28
The emergence of team entrepreneurial passion from team helping: An affective events theory perspective	27
Book review: Against entrepreneurship: A critical examination	21
Institutional environments for circular start-ups: Insights from an entrepreneurial European region	21
How women in the UAE enact entrepreneurial identities to build legitimacy	18
Dynamic capabilities and employment during COVID-19: The moderating effect of government support	18
Interpretation of successful and failed events in entrepreneurial firms: Acknowledgement practice under uncertainty	18
Chronic health issues and entrepreneurship: Exploring the role of grit, bricolage and illness uncertainty on venture performance	18
The drivers of the post-entry internationalisation commitment of small and medium-sized enterprises	17
Performance stability among small and medium-sized enterprises during COVID-19: A test of the efficacy of dynamic capabilities	16
Gendered crisis approach: Exploring the gendered impact of Iranian sanctions on nascent entrepreneurship outcomes	16
A trauma-informed approach: Temporal reorientation, identity reconstruction and preventing retraumatisation in refugee entrepreneurship support	16
Who wants to be a franchisee? Explaining individual intentions to become franchisees	16
Family firm exit: A vignette study on selling to an activist versus a steward private equity investor	15
Legitimacy spillovers and hybrid rhetoric in crowdfunded microloans	15
Legitimacy and innovation in social enterprises	15
Engaging symbiotic ecosystems to build community centred business models for the BoP: Evidence from small social enterprises in East Africa	15

Incumbents versus circular start-ups in the workwear industry: Organisational and individual drivers and barriers to a circular economy	15
Pre-entrepreneurship social status and research and development investment decision: Evidence from Chinese private enterprises	15
Start-ups within entrepreneurial ecosystems: Transition towards a circular economy	14
Editorial: Reflections on David J Storey	13
Everyday social support processes: Household members’ instrumental and emotional support of entrepreneurs	13
Book review: Covid, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Frameworks for Future Trade and Economic Growth Richard Simmons and Nigel Culkin reviewed	13
Coopetition in the small business sector: Taking stock and looking forward	12
Book review: Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Those who Research (Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, 17) HigginsDavidBr	12
Legitimation work in sustainable entrepreneurship: Sustainability ventures’ journey towards the establishment of major partnerships	12
Predictors of job crafting in SMEs working in an ICT-based mobile and multilocational manner	11
Book review: Immigrant entrepreneurship: Cases from contemporary Poland	11
Book review: The Garment Economy: Understanding History Developing Business Models and Leveraging Digital Technologies	11
Influence of strategic HRM and entrepreneurial orientation on dynamic capabilities and innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises	11
SMEs and exogenous shocks: A conceptual literature review and forward research agenda	10
The role of political connections in rapid internationalisation: A study among Chinese international new ventures	10
Predicting future default on the Covid-19 bounce back loan scheme: The £46.5 billion question	10
Enabling agency in constrained contexts: How restorative entrepreneuring supports reintegration post-incarceration	9
Business model innovation in circular start-ups: Overcoming barriers in the circular plastics economy	9
Self-interest or self-defeating? How the self-employed voted in the EU referendum	9
Book review: Heritage Entrepreneurship Cultural and Creative Pursuits in Business Management Vanessa Ratten	9
The entrepreneurial gender gap: The role of in-group support and national embeddedness values in young women’s entrepreneurship	8
The influence of the positive affective trait on the willingness to act entrepreneurially: The mediating effect of opportunity evaluation	8
UK government-backed start-up loans: Tackling disadvantage and credit rationing of new entrepreneurs	8
Coopetition strategy as naturalised practice in a cluster of informal businesses	7
On-ramp or speed bump? How boards influence the internationalisation of international new ventures	7
Immanent sensemaking by entrepreneurs and the interpretation of consumer context	7
The effect of parental transmission of entrepreneurship on small and micro-enterprise sales performance	7
Collective entrepreneurship in low-income communities: The importance of collective ownership, collective processes and collective goods	7
Starting up, not slowing down: Social entrepreneurial intentions in later working-life	6
Exploring the scope and depth of digitalisation in times of crisis: Implications for SME resilience	6
Revision needed? A social constructionist perspective on measurement scales for assessing gender role stereotypes in entrepreneurship	6
Entrepreneurship as collective action: The next frontier	6
Book Review:Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory	6
The influence of job satisfaction on entrepreneurial intention: A cross-level investigation	6
Book review: Tourism Entrepreneurship in Portugal and Spain: Competitive landscapes and innovative business models	6
Contributing to the sustainable development goals as normative and instrumental acts: The role of Buddhist religious logics in family SMEs	5
Governance considerations and non-linear international scale-up behaviour among INVs	5
The impact of trust on social and financial capital acquisition: A resource integration perspective in minority-owned entrepreneurial organisations	5
Relying on the engagement of others: A review of the governance choices facing social media platform start-ups	5
The role of equity capital in speeding cleantechs across the ‘Valley of Death’	5
How political connections affect entrepreneurial risk-taking in SMEs: A symmetric assessment and a configurational approach	5
Entrepreneurial finance and institutional logics in an emerging economy	5
Sustainable funding for small businesses: An investigation into the dynamics of the recurring crowdfunding model	4
Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review	4
The hazards of delivering a public loan guarantee scheme: An analysis of borrower and lender characteristics	4
Start-ups and entrepreneurial ecosystems in the circular economy: A multi-level approach for safe and just planetary boundaries	4
Are founder-CEOs resilient to crises? The impact of founder-CEO succession on new firm survival	4
Integrating emotion regulation, emotional intelligence, and emotion-focused coping in the entrepreneurial context: A review and research agenda	4
Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers?	4
Corporate governance in international new ventures and born global firms	4

The creation of collective enterprises for social impact: An agency perspective	4
The synergy of causation and effectuation in the process of entrepreneurial networking: Implications for opportunity development	4
Annual review article: The dual mindset of design-driven entrepreneurship: The case for a pedagogy of making and artefact-centred entrepreneurship education	4
Book Review: Peace entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship: Life stories from Israelis and Palestinians	4
The door swings in and out: The impact of family support and country stability on success of women entrepreneurs in the Arab world	3
Book review: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa Daniel Agyapong and Rosemond Boohene (eds)	3
Research and development and the financial performance of high-tech small- and medium-sized enterprises: Does managerial ability matter?	3
Activating collective agency in disrupted contexts: The social-cognitive context of ad hoc organising in a small and medium-sized enterprise	3
Intersections of gender, ethnicity, place and innovation: Mapping the diversity of women-led SMEs in the United Kingdom	3
Mid-size firm growth: The process and empirical examination of key drivers	3
Institutional reforms and entrepreneurial growth ambitions	3
David Storey: A founding father of the field of entrepreneurship research and academic career creator	3
The critical role of assertiveness of women business owners in the link between firm performance and family instrumental support	3
The liability of refugeeness: Leveraging multiple identities to enact power in a context of displacement	3
Book review: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy	3