OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Business Venturing is 8. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	168
Editorial Board	147
Star entrepreneurs on digital platforms: Heavy-tailed performance distributions and their generative mechanisms	127
Social entrepreneurs concerned about Impact Drift. Evidence from contexts of persistent and pervasive need	113
Entrepreneurial hustle: Scale development and validation	92
Impact creation approaches of community-based enterprises: A configurational analysis of enabling conditions	88
Fear the loss or welcome the gains? How stock options influence CEO risk-taking in corporate cleantech investments	87
Hype: Marker and maker of entrepreneurial culture	73
Editorial Board	67
Momentum for entrepreneurial internationalization: Friction at the interface between international and domestic institutions	63
A personal adversity model of justifying the costs of entrepreneurial action: The case of oil thieves in the Niger DELTA	58
Black entrepreneurship: A multilevel process model of constrained agency across the business venturing lifecycle	57
Financing sustainable entrepreneurship: ESG measurement, valuation, and performance	56
Advancing societal grand challenge research at the interface of entrepreneurship and international business: A review and research agenda	56
Trouble brewing: Craft ventures during market disruption	55
Investing in yourself by investing in the field: The long-term benefits of reviewing	54
Editorial Board	53
Editorial Board	53
Outside board director experience and the growth of new ventures	50
Co-creation in effectuation processes: A stakeholder perspective on commitment reasoning	48
The potentials and perils of prosocial power: Transnational social entrepreneurship dynamics in vulnerable places	47
Non-probabilistic reasoning in navigating entrepreneurial uncertainty: A psychology of religious faith lens	47
Are entrepreneurs more upwardly mobile?	44
Calling Baumol: What telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes	39
Organizational scaling, scalability, and scale-up: Definitional harmonization and a research agenda	38

Network to passion or passion to network? Disentangling entrepreneurial passion selection and contagion effects among peers and teams in a startup accelerator	35
Legitimacy perceptions amid institutional pluralism: How hype over decoupled practices influences entrepreneurial ventures	35
From platform growth to platform scaling: The role of decision rules and network effects over time	35
What is scaling?	34
Not so silent partners: Exploring the interconnected roles of entrepreneurs and their spouses	34
Emancipatory entrepreneurship in postcolonial economies: The clash of institutional systems in the Kejetia marketplace	34
Editorial Board	34
Financing decentralized digital platform growth: The role of crypto funds in blockchain-based startups	34
Quasipractice: How the entrepreneurship educator develops entrepreneurial practice expertise	31
A temporal typology of entrepreneurial opportunities: Implications for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action	31
The effects of firm-specific incentives (stock options) on mobility and employee entrepreneurship	30
Radical innovation in (multi)family owned firms	29
Parental divorce in early life and entrepreneurial performance in adulthood	29
Social entrepreneurship and intersectionality: Mitigating extreme exclusion	28
Navigating the temporal commitments of entrepreneurial hype: Insights from entrepreneur and backer interactions in crowdfunded ventures	28
Editorial Board	27
Editorial Board	27
“I can't get it out of my mind” - Why, how, and when crisis rumination leads entrepreneurs to act and pivot during crises	27
Referrals among VCs and the length of due diligence: The effect of relational embeddedness	26
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	26
Effect of venture capital investment horizon on new product development: Evidence from the medical device sector	26
Navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurial identity threats to persist: The countervailing force of a relational identity with God	25
Legitimate incongruity: Strategic positioning within hybrid categories	25
The “devil” you don't know: A test of the detriments and benefits of co-founding with strangers	24
Align or perish: Social enterprise network orchestration in Sub-Saharan Africa	24
Waves and rips: Abalone, entrepreneurial variants, and community functioning	23
Editorial Board	23
Old but gold? Examining the effect of age bias in reward-based crowdfunding	23
Work hard or play hard: the effect of leisure crafting on opportunity recognition and venture performance	22
Editorial Board	22
The role of prototype fidelity in technology crowdfunding	21
Editorial Board	21
Rags to riches? Entrepreneurs' social classes, resourceful time allocation, and venture performance	21
Para-social mentoring: The effects of entrepreneurship influencers on entrepreneurs	21
Scalability, venture capital availability, and unicorns: Evidence from the valuation and timing of IPOs	21
Editorial Board	21
Overconfidence and entrepreneurship: A meta-analysis of different types of overconfidence in the entrepreneurial process	20
Peer effects on passion levels, passion trajectories, and outcomes for individuals and teams	19
Empathy-driven entrepreneurial action: Well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs and target beneficiaries	19
Early-stage business model experimentation and pivoting	18
ESG and crowdfunding platforms	18
The entrepreneurship fountain of youth: Younger management ranks generate more entrepreneurs	18
From algorithmic hallucinations to alien minds: Addressing the ideator's dilemma through entrepreneurial work	17
Big things from small beginnings: Creating and scaling community-based opportunities for sustainable small and local businesses	17
When do spinouts benefit from market overlap with parent firms?	17
False signaling by platform team members and post-campaign venture outcomes: Evidence from an equity crowdfunding platform	17
From distinctiveness to optimal distinctiveness: External endorsements, innovativeness and new venture funding	17
Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian communities	17
Editorial Board	16
Visual totality of rewards-based crowdfunding pitch videos: Disentangling the impact of peak negative affective visual expression on funding outcomes	16

Editorial Board	16
Journal of business venturing 2023 year in review: The year of the whole-person entrepreneur	16
Editorial Board	16
Flip the tweet – the two-sided coin of entrepreneurial empathy and its ambiguous influence on new product development	16
A chip off the old block: Founders' prior experience and the geographic diversification of export sales in international new ventures	15
To profit or not to profit: Founder identity at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship	15
The expectations game: The contingent value of hype as a rhetorical strategy in resource mobilization processes among AI startups	15
Staying poor: Unpacking the process of barefoot institutional entrepreneurship failure	15
Seeing human resources of entrepreneurial firms in new ways	15
Sowing the seeds of failure: Organizational identity dynamics in new venture pivoting	14
Regulatory institutions and cross-country differences in high-growth entrepreneurship rates: A configurational approach	14
The body as a cultural resource for entrepreneurs in stigmatized settings: The case of sex toys by women for women	14
Aging and entrepreneurs' emotional exhaustion: The role of entrepreneurial strategy, psychological capital, and felt age gap	14
Ecological rationality and entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs fit decision logics to decision content and structure	14
Innovation at the interface: A configurational approach to corporate venture capital	14
Cognitive origins of entrepreneurial action: How venture-specific knowledge drives financial investments	14
Atypical entrepreneurs in the venture idea elaboration phase	14
Editorial Board	13
Balancing power: The role of independent directors on venture boards	13
(S)training experiences: Toward understanding decreases in entrepreneurial self-efficacy during action-oriented entrepreneurship training	13
Labor market reform as an external enabler of high-growth entrepreneurship: A multi-level institutional contingency perspective	13
Angel funding and entrepreneurs' well-being: The mediating role of autonomy, competence, and relatedness	13
Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media	12
Progress toward understanding tensions in corporate venture capital: A systematic review	12
Childhood adversities: Mixed blessings for entrepreneurial entry	11
Do I have a big ego? Angel investors' narcissism and investment behaviors	11
Breaking barriers or maintaining status quo? Female representation in decision-making group of venture capital firms and the funding of woman-led businesses	11
The entrepreneur identity assimilation process: It's not all work and no play	11
No politics in funding pitches: An expectancy violations theory perspective of entrepreneurs' political expressions in crowdfunding	10
Categorically right? How firm-level distinctiveness affects performance across product categories	10
When sergeants can outrank generals: Person-organization fit and the performance of franchisees as agents of their franchisor	10
Legitimately distinct entrepreneurial stories in evolving market categories	10
Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: A constitutive perspective	10
Can you hear me now? Engendering passion and preparedness perceptions with vocal expressions in crowdfunding pitches	10
The value of a reputation for sustaining commitment in interfirm relationships: The inclusion of corporate venture capitalists in investment syndicates	10
Ventures' conscious knowledge transfer to close partners, and beyond: A framework of performance, complementarity, knowledge disclosure, and knowledge broadcasting	9
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	9
Progress without a venture? Individual benefits of post-disruption entrepreneuring	9
The good, the bad and the uncertain: Employers' perceptions of former entrepreneurs	9
The challenges of supporting necessity entrepreneurs: Understanding loan officer exit in microfinance	9
Does self-employment increase stress? A co-twin control analysis of Finnish and US twins	8
Rethinking entrepreneurship in causally entangled crises: A poly-crisis perspective	8
Reaching out or going it alone? How birth order shapes networking behavior and entrepreneurial action in the face of obstacles	8
Editorial Board	8
Owner-management, board governance and responses to performance feedback in private firms	8
Entrepreneurship, age, and the lifespan: Taking stock and avenues for future research	8
Editorial Board	8