OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Business Venturing is 9. 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
Editorial Board	204
Editorial Board	203
Fear the loss or welcome the gains? How stock options influence CEO risk-taking in corporate cleantech investments	147
Social entrepreneurs concerned about Impact Drift. Evidence from contexts of persistent and pervasive need	135
Hype: Marker and maker of entrepreneurial culture	118
Impact creation approaches of community-based enterprises: A configurational analysis of enabling conditions	99
Star entrepreneurs on digital platforms: Heavy-tailed performance distributions and their generative mechanisms	95
Entrepreneurial hustle: Scale development and validation	81
Beyond computation: How National Supercomputing Centers facilitate new business entry	73
Trouble brewing: Craft ventures during market disruption	65
Black entrepreneurship: A multilevel process model of constrained agency across the business venturing lifecycle	65
Momentum for entrepreneurial internationalization: Friction at the interface between international and domestic institutions	63
Advancing societal grand challenge research at the interface of entrepreneurship and international business: A review and research agenda	63
Editorial Board	63
Financing sustainable entrepreneurship: ESG measurement, valuation, and performance	58
The potentials and perils of prosocial power: Transnational social entrepreneurship dynamics in vulnerable places	54
Legitimacy perceptions amid institutional pluralism: How hype over decoupled practices influences entrepreneurial ventures	53
Editorial Board	49
Editorial Board	46
Investing in yourself by investing in the field: The long-term benefits of reviewing	45
Editorial Board	44
Outside board director experience and the growth of new ventures	41
From platform growth to platform scaling: The role of decision rules and network effects over time	40
Are entrepreneurs more upwardly mobile?	38
Non-probabilistic reasoning in navigating entrepreneurial uncertainty: A psychology of religious faith lens	37

Co-creation in effectuation processes: A stakeholder perspective on commitment reasoning	37
Organizational scaling, scalability, and scale-up: Definitional harmonization and a research agenda	36
Network to passion or passion to network? Disentangling entrepreneurial passion selection and contagion effects among peers and teams in a startup accelerator	36
Calling Baumol: What telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes	36
Financing decentralized digital platform growth: The role of crypto funds in blockchain-based startups	35
Emancipatory entrepreneurship in postcolonial economies: The clash of institutional systems in the Kejetia marketplace	35
Editorial Board	35
A temporal typology of entrepreneurial opportunities: Implications for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action	34
Quasipractice: How the entrepreneurship educator develops entrepreneurial practice expertise	32
Not so silent partners: Exploring the interconnected roles of entrepreneurs and their spouses	31
What is scaling?	31
Social entrepreneurship and intersectionality: Mitigating extreme exclusion	29
Parental divorce in early life and entrepreneurial performance in adulthood	29
Radical innovation in (multi)family owned firms	29
“I can't get it out of my mind” - Why, how, and when crisis rumination leads entrepreneurs to act and pivot during crises	28
Effect of venture capital investment horizon on new product development: Evidence from the medical device sector	28
The effects of firm-specific incentives (stock options) on mobility and employee entrepreneurship	28
Editorial Board	28
Navigating the temporal commitments of entrepreneurial hype: Insights from entrepreneur and backer interactions in crowdfunded ventures	28
The “devil” you don't know: A test of the detriments and benefits of co-founding with strangers	27
Corrigendum to “Perceived social undermining keeps entrepreneurs up at night and disengaged the next day: The mediating role of sleep quality and the buffering role of trait resilience” [J. Bus. Ventu	27
Legitimate incongruity: Strategic positioning within hybrid categories	26
Navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurial identity threats to persist: The countervailing force of a relational identity with God	26
Editorial Board	25
Referrals among VCs and the length of due diligence: The effect of relational embeddedness	25
Scalability, venture capital availability, and unicorns: Evidence from the valuation and timing of IPOs	25
Editorial Board	24
Editorial Board	23
Work hard or play hard: the effect of leisure crafting on opportunity recognition and venture performance	23
The role of prototype fidelity in technology crowdfunding	23
Rags to riches? Entrepreneurs' social classes, resourceful time allocation, and venture performance	22
Old but gold? Examining the effect of age bias in reward-based crowdfunding	22
Waves and rips: Abalone, entrepreneurial variants, and community functioning	22
Empathy-driven entrepreneurial action: Well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs and target beneficiaries	21
Editorial Board	21
Editorial Board	21
Social entrepreneurship mechanisms for systems change: A structuration approach	20
The entrepreneurship fountain of youth: Younger management ranks generate more entrepreneurs	20
Overconfidence and entrepreneurship: A meta-analysis of different types of overconfidence in the entrepreneurial process	20
Para-social mentoring: The effects of entrepreneurship influencers on entrepreneurs	20
From distinctiveness to optimal distinctiveness: External endorsements, innovativeness and new venture funding	19
Big things from small beginnings: Creating and scaling community-based opportunities for sustainable small and local businesses	19
False signaling by platform team members and post-campaign venture outcomes: Evidence from an equity crowdfunding platform	19
When do spinouts benefit from market overlap with parent firms?	19
From algorithmic hallucinations to alien minds: Addressing the ideator's dilemma through entrepreneurial work	19
I'll prove you wrong! The underdog effect as an antecedent to entrepreneurial action and venture persistence	18
Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian communities	18
ESG and crowdfunding platforms	18
Peer effects on passion levels, passion trajectories, and outcomes for individuals and teams	17
Editorial Board	17

Early-stage business model experimentation and pivoting	17
Editorial Board	17
How cross-national border influences of global phenomena render entrepreneurship inherently international	16
Permission to play: Trying on entrepreneurship in times of crisis	16
Editorial Board	16
Journal of business venturing 2023 year in review: The year of the whole-person entrepreneur	16
To profit or not to profit: Founder identity at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship	15
Visual totality of rewards-based crowdfunding pitch videos: Disentangling the impact of peak negative affective visual expression on funding outcomes	15
Staying poor: Unpacking the process of barefoot institutional entrepreneurship failure	15
Seeing human resources of entrepreneurial firms in new ways	15
Regulatory institutions and cross-country differences in high-growth entrepreneurship rates: A configurational approach	14
Aging and entrepreneurs' emotional exhaustion: The role of entrepreneurial strategy, psychological capital, and felt age gap	14
Flip the tweet – the two-sided coin of entrepreneurial empathy and its ambiguous influence on new product development	14
The expectations game: The contingent value of hype as a rhetorical strategy in resource mobilization processes among AI startups	13
A chip off the old block: Founders' prior experience and the geographic diversification of export sales in international new ventures	13
Innovation at the interface: A configurational approach to corporate venture capital	13
Scale, scope, speed, and customization (pick two): Resourcing drives trade-offs in local compassion venturing effectiveness	13
Atypical entrepreneurs in the venture idea elaboration phase	12
Ecological rationality and entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs fit decision logics to decision content and structure	12
Editorial Board	12
Cognitive origins of entrepreneurial action: How venture-specific knowledge drives financial investments	12
(S)training experiences: Toward understanding decreases in entrepreneurial self-efficacy during action-oriented entrepreneurship training	12
The body as a cultural resource for entrepreneurs in stigmatized settings: The case of sex toys by women for women	12
Angel funding and entrepreneurs' well-being: The mediating role of autonomy, competence, and relatedness	12
Labor market reform as an external enabler of high-growth entrepreneurship: A multi-level institutional contingency perspective	12
Progress toward understanding tensions in corporate venture capital: A systematic review	11
The entrepreneur identity assimilation process: It's not all work and no play	11
Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media	11
Do I have a big ego? Angel investors' narcissism and investment behaviors	11
Balancing power: The role of independent directors on venture boards	11
Categorically right? How firm-level distinctiveness affects performance across product categories	10
Can you hear me now? Engendering passion and preparedness perceptions with vocal expressions in crowdfunding pitches	10
Emancipatory entrepreneurship by a stigmatized social group	10
The valorization of employment: How communities and founders shape new venture outcomes	10
Childhood adversities: Mixed blessings for entrepreneurial entry	10
The value of a reputation for sustaining commitment in interfirm relationships: The inclusion of corporate venture capitalists in investment syndicates	10
No politics in funding pitches: An expectancy violations theory perspective of entrepreneurs' political expressions in crowdfunding	10
Breaking barriers or maintaining status quo? Female representation in decision-making group of venture capital firms and the funding of woman-led businesses	10
Beyond direct impact: Exploring inward FDI’s multifaceted effects on new venture creation	9
Progress without a venture? Individual benefits of post-disruption entrepreneuring	9
When venture capital comes to town: Local ecosystem effects beyond funded ventures	9
The good, the bad and the uncertain: Employers' perceptions of former entrepreneurs	9
The power of consumer solidarity framing in scaling up social impact	9
Legitimately distinct entrepreneurial stories in evolving market categories	9
Owner-management, board governance and responses to performance feedback in private firms	9