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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Book review: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Learning Diamanto Politis, Lise Aaboen and Jonas Gabrielsson (eds) PolitisDiamantoAaboenLiseGabrielssonJonas (eds),	45
Tensions at the margins of change: Re-discovering hybridity in the digitalisation of social enterprises	38
Is having immigrants in entrepreneurial teams good for equity crowdfunding success and long-term venture survival?	35
Being all things to all people: How gender shapes entrepreneurs’ multifaceted digital identities on X	31
Who you ask matters: Combining perspective taking and outsidership to identify novel and useful opportunities	31
It’s all about identity: The identity constructions of LGBT entrepreneurs from an intersectionality perspective	30
Rebellion against resilience? The experience of women entrepreneurs in the context of poly-crisis	29
On the consequences of firm growth	29
Individual religious affiliation, religiosity and entrepreneurial intentions among students in four countries	28
Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Society framework: A constructive critique from a climate change perspective	27
Affect and adaptation in entrepreneurial goal pursuit	24
The emergence of team entrepreneurial passion from team helping: An affective events theory perspective	22
Institutional environments for circular start-ups: Insights from an entrepreneurial European region	21
Chronic health issues and entrepreneurship: Exploring the role of grit, bricolage and illness uncertainty on venture performance	21
Informal entrepreneurship and the insidership–outsidership duality	21
Entrepreneurial passion, patriotism, nationalism and resilience: Understanding Ukrainian refugee women’s entrepreneurial intentions in constrained contexts	21
Sociocultural outsidership in entrepreneurship: Rethinking the double-edged role of marginalisation	21
Dynamic capabilities and employment during COVID-19: The moderating effect of government support	20
Gendered crisis approach: Exploring the gendered impact of Iranian sanctions on nascent entrepreneurship outcomes	20
A trauma-informed approach: Temporal reorientation, identity reconstruction and preventing retraumatisation in refugee entrepreneurship support	19
Legitimacy and innovation in social enterprises	18
Incumbents versus circular start-ups in the workwear industry: Organisational and individual drivers and barriers to a circular economy	16
Internationalisation as a human capital adaptation journey: The case of returnee entrepreneurs in China	15
Book Review: Impact Work: An ethnographic journey into the making of impact entrepreneurship, Switzerland Dumont, Guillaume DumontGuillaume, Impact Work:	15
Legitimacy spillovers and hybrid rhetoric in crowdfunded microloans	14

Family firm exit: A vignette study on selling to an activist versus a steward private equity investor	13
The weaker vessel. Survival tactics of women entrepreneurs in Ghana’s informal economy	13
Nuclear family, patriarchy, and regulatory focus: Empirical evidence from family firms in China	13
Book review: Covid, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Frameworks for Future Trade and Economic Growth Richard Simmons and Nigel Culkin reviewed	12
Start-ups within entrepreneurial ecosystems: Transition towards a circular economy	12
Barriers, constraints and entrepreneurial action: The case of nascent African American entrepreneurs	11
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)	11
Signalling for success: Subsequent grant support and female-founded university spinouts	11
Editorial: Reflections on David J Storey	11
Social entrepreneurs, fear of failure and growth aspirations: The moderating role of social value orientation	10
Coopetition in the small business sector: Taking stock and looking forward	10
The effect of social exclusion and aggregation on firm performance: Empirical evidence from entrepreneurial teams managed by minority Italian entrepreneurs	10
Emergent and growing entrepreneurial ecosystems: How do institutional logics shape fields of entrepreneurship?	10
‘No-growth’ entrepreneurial strategy in microenterprises	10
Book review: The Garment Economy: Understanding History Developing Business Models and Leveraging Digital Technologies Michelle Brandstrup, Leo-Paul Dana, Daniella Rydin	9
Book review: Immigrant entrepreneurship: Cases from contemporary Poland	9
Predictors of job crafting in SMEs working in an ICT-based mobile and multilocational manner	8
Influence of strategic HRM and entrepreneurial orientation on dynamic capabilities and innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises	8
An evaluation of the impact of a government supported investment scheme on recipient firms	8
Hegemonic entrepreneurial masculinities in patriarchal contexts: Exploring men’s entrepreneurship in war-torn territories	8
Differential interpretation of entrepreneurial signals across genders: The role of institutional context	7
UK government-backed start-up loans: Tackling disadvantage and credit rationing of new entrepreneurs	7
The role of political connections in rapid internationalisation: A study among Chinese international new ventures	7
Book review: Heritage Entrepreneurship Cultural and Creative Pursuits in Business Management Vanessa Ratten	7
Self-interest or self-defeating? How the self-employed voted in the EU referendum	7
Business model innovation in circular start-ups: Overcoming barriers in the circular plastics economy	7
Enabling agency in constrained contexts: How restorative entrepreneuring supports reintegration post-incarceration	7
Pivoting the self: Gendered identity construction of impoverished women transitioning from paid work to entrepreneurship in rural Indonesia	7
On-ramp or speed bump? How boards influence the internationalisation of international new ventures	6
Opportunity confidence and idea revision: How assessments by others shape idea work	6
Collective entrepreneurship in low-income communities: The importance of collective ownership, collective processes and collective goods	6
The entrepreneurial gender gap: The role of in-group support and national embeddedness values in young women’s entrepreneurship	6
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	5
Book Review:Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory	5
Entrepreneurship as collective action: The next frontier	5
I am a migrant entrepreneur and I can make it: Enabling identities to overcome marginalisation	5
The effect of parental transmission of entrepreneurship on small and micro-enterprise sales performance	5
Book review: Tourism Entrepreneurship in Portugal and Spain: Competitive landscapes and innovative business models	5
Collective entrepreneurship and cooperatives principles: Configurations for achieving social and economic goals in cooperatives	5
The effect of personal values on both entrepreneurial intentions and new venture creation: A longitudinal analysis	5
Book Review: A Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Entrepreneurship Mike Zundel and Christian G Johnsen ZundelMikeJohnsenChristian	5
Revision needed? A social constructionist perspective on measurement scales for assessing gender role stereotypes in entrepreneurship	5
Entrepreneurial finance and institutional logics in an emerging economy	4
The role of equity capital in speeding cleantechs across the ‘Valley of Death’	4
Gender, masculinity and intersectionality debates in entrepreneurship	4
Governance considerations and non-linear international scale-up behaviour among INVs	4
Contributing to the sustainable development goals as normative and instrumental acts: The role of Buddhist religious logics in family SMEs	4
Corporate governance in international new ventures and born global firms	4
How political connections affect entrepreneurial risk-taking in SMEs: A symmetric assessment and a configurational approach	4

Annual review article: The dual mindset of design-driven entrepreneurship: The case for a pedagogy of making and artefact-centred entrepreneurship education	4
The influence of microcredit on the business survival of micro-entrepreneurs in France: Crowding-in or crowding-out?	4
The hazards of delivering a public loan guarantee scheme: An analysis of borrower and lender characteristics	3
Integrating emotion regulation, emotional intelligence, and emotion-focused coping in the entrepreneurial context: A review and research agenda	3
Institutional reforms and entrepreneurial growth ambitions	3
Sustainable funding for small businesses: An investigation into the dynamics of the recurring crowdfunding model	3
The creation of collective enterprises for social impact: An agency perspective	3
Start-ups and entrepreneurial ecosystems in the circular economy: A multi-level approach for safe and just planetary boundaries	3
David Storey: A founding father of the field of entrepreneurship research and academic career creator	3
Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers?	3
Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review	3
Book review: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy	3
Introduction: Re-positioning migrant entrepreneurs: A situated and relational approach to practices and policies	3