OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Business Venturing is 7. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Mortgage affordability and entrepreneurship: Evidence from spatial discontinuity in Help-to-Buy equity loans	130
Editorial Board	119
Institutional work to navigate ethical dilemmas: Evidence from a social enterprise	115
The entrepreneur identity assimilation process: It's not all work and no play	92
Breaking barriers or maintaining status quo? Female representation in decision-making group of venture capital firms and the funding of woman-led businesses	84
Interorganizational triads for foreign-market entry: Partnerships among Western, bridge-economy, and local VCs in Mainland China	67
Editorial Board	63
Do I have a big ego? Angel investors' narcissism and investment behaviors	62
Editorial Board	62
Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media	61
Editorial Board	59
Old but gold? Examining the effect of age bias in reward-based crowdfunding	57
Just a number? Using artificial intelligence to explore perceived founder age in entrepreneurial fundraising	53
Launching for success: The effects of psychological distance and mental simulation on funding decisions and crowdfunding performance	53
Social entrepreneurs concerned about Impact Drift. Evidence from contexts of persistent and pervasive need	52
Editorial Board	49
Entrepreneurial hustle: Scale development and validation	45
Editorial Board	45
Writing bold, broad, and rigorous review articles in entrepreneurship	43
Childhood adversities: Mixed blessings for entrepreneurial entry	41
Turning a curse into a blessing: Contingent effects of geographic distance on startup–VC partnership performance	41
On the origins of entrepreneurship: Evidence from sibling correlations	40
Technology ventures' engagement of external actors in the search for viable market applications: On the relevance of Technology Broadcasting and Systematic Validation	39
Scalability, venture capital availability, and unicorns: Evidence from the valuation and timing of IPOs	39
Labor market reform as an external enabler of high-growth entrepreneurship: A multi-level institutional contingency perspective	38

Impact creation approaches of community-based enterprises: A configurational analysis of enabling conditions	37
Exploring the microfoundations of hybridity: A judgment-based approach	37
When a crisis hits: An examination of the impact of the global financial crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic on financing for women entrepreneurs	34
Rags to riches? Entrepreneurs' social classes, resourceful time allocation, and venture performance	34
Now is the time: The effects of linguistic time reference and national time orientation on innovative new ventures	33
Star entrepreneurs on digital platforms: Heavy-tailed performance distributions and their generative mechanisms	32
Failed but validated? The effect of market validation on persistence and performance after a crowdfunding failure	31
Habitual entrepreneurship in digital platform ecosystems: A time-contingent model of learning from prior software project experiences	31
Growing pains in scale-ups: How scaling affects new venture employee burnout and job satisfaction	31
The benefits of having an entrepreneur-mother: Influence of mother's entrepreneurial status on human capital formation among children	31
Resourcefulness narratives: Transforming actions into stories to mobilize support	30
Progress toward understanding tensions in corporate venture capital: A systematic review	29
Work hard or play hard: the effect of leisure crafting on opportunity recognition and venture performance	29
The origins of capabilities: Resource allocation strategies, capability development, and the performance of new firms	29
The role of prototype fidelity in technology crowdfunding	27
Will the startup succeed in your eyes? Venture evaluation of resource providers during entrepreneurs' informational signaling	27
Communities at the nexus of entrepreneurship and societal impact: A cross-disciplinary literature review	27
Economic inequality – Is entrepreneurship the cause or the solution? A review and research agenda for emerging economies	26
Sight unseen: The visibility paradox of entrepreneurship in an informal economy	25
Amplifying angels: Evidence from the INVEST program	25
Explaining serial crowdfunders' dynamic fundraising performance	25
Beyond bricolage: Early-stage technology venture resource mobilization in resource-scarce contexts	25
Venture distress and problemistic search among entrepreneurs in Brazilian favelas	25
Editorial Board	24
Configurations for corporate venture innovation: Investigating the role of the dominant coalition	24
Editorial Board	24
Advancing societal grand challenge research at the interface of entrepreneurship and international business: A review and research agenda	24
From community rootedness to individuated entrepreneuring: The development of entrepreneurial motivation through a temporary community of practice	23
Editorial Board	23
Trust, fast and slow: A comparison study of the trust behaviors of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs	21
Made to be broken? A theory of regulatory governance and rule-breaking entrepreneurial action	21
Momentum for entrepreneurial internationalization: Friction at the interface between international and domestic institutions	21
Legitimation of a heterogeneous market category through covert prototype differentiation	20
Editorial Board	19
Trouble brewing: Craft ventures during market disruption	19
Overconfidence and entrepreneurship: A meta-analysis of different types of overconfidence in the entrepreneurial process	18
Persist or let it go: Do rational entrepreneurs make decisions rationally?	17
Express yourself: Facial expression of happiness, anger, fear, and sadness in funding pitches	17
Social corporations under the spotlight: A governance perspective	17
No politics in funding pitches: An expectancy violations theory perspective of entrepreneurs' political expressions in crowdfunding	17
A personal adversity model of justifying the costs of entrepreneurial action: The case of oil thieves in the Niger DELTA	17
Unfolding refugee entrepreneurs' opportunity-production process — Patterns and embeddedness	16
A country-level institutional perspective on entrepreneurship productivity: The effects of informal economy and regulation	16
The art of discovering and exploiting unexpected opportunities: The roles of organizational improvisation and serendipity in new venture performance	15
Echoes of the past: The long-lasting effects of entrepreneurs' generational imprints on value-creation models	15
The effect of trademark breadth on IPO valuation and post-IPO performance: an empirical investigation of 1510 European IPOs	15
Linking anxiety to passion: Emotion regulation and entrepreneurs' pitch performance	15
Can you hear me now? Engendering passion and preparedness perceptions with vocal expressions in crowdfunding pitches	15
A holistic approach to the evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: An exploratory study of academic spin-offs	15
Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: A constitutive perspective	15

Para-social mentoring: The effects of entrepreneurship influencers on entrepreneurs	15
Head in the clouds? Cannabis users' creativity in new venture ideation depends on their entrepreneurial passion and experience	15
Financing sustainable entrepreneurship: ESG measurement, valuation, and performance	14
Navigating compromise: How founder authenticity affects venture identification amidst organizational hybridity	14
Preparing for scaling: A study on founder role evolution	14
Obsessive passion and the venture team: When co-founders join, and when they don't	14
Empathy-driven entrepreneurial action: Well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs and target beneficiaries	14
Signal configurations: Exploring set-theoretic relationships in angel investing	14
Job burnout and work engagement in entrepreneurs: How the psychological utility of entrepreneurship drives healthy engagement	13
Editorial Board	13
Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian communities	12
Editorial Board	11
Questioning boundedly rational frameworks in practice: The case of women entrepreneurs in Kumasi, Ghana	11
Owls, larks, or investment sharks? The role of circadian process in early-stage investment decisions	11
Organizational scaling, scalability, and scale-up: Definitional harmonization and a research agenda	11
Editorial Board	10
Categorically right? How firm-level distinctiveness affects performance across product categories	10
Peer effects on passion levels, passion trajectories, and outcomes for individuals and teams	10
Managing negative emotions from entrepreneurial project failure: When and how does supportive leadership help employees?	10
Is blood always thicker than water? Family firm parents, kinship ties, and the survival of spawns	10
How childhood ADHD-like symptoms predict selection into entrepreneurship and implications on entrepreneurial performance	10
Network to passion or passion to network? Disentangling entrepreneurial passion selection and contagion effects among peers and teams in a startup accelerator	10
Climate impact, institutional context, and national climate change adaptation IP protection rates	10
Editorial Board	10
ESG and crowdfunding platforms	9
The needle of charisma and the threads of trust: Advancing effectuation theory's crazy quilt principle	9
Feeding the hype cycle: Entrepreneurial swagger, passion, and inflated expectations	9
Early-stage business model experimentation and pivoting	9
Facing the future through entrepreneurship theory: A prospective inquiry framework	9
Investing in yourself by investing in the field: The long-term benefits of reviewing	9
Cracks in the wall: Entrepreneurial action theory and the weakening presumption of intended rationality	8
Doing the right things at the right times: The role of temporal enactment in venture outcome attainment	8
False signaling by platform team members and post-campaign venture outcomes: Evidence from an equity crowdfunding platform	8
The potentials and perils of prosocial power: Transnational social entrepreneurship dynamics in vulnerable places	8
Actions in words: How entrepreneurs use diversified and changing speech acts to achieve funding success	8
The value of a reputation for sustaining commitment in interfirm relationships: The inclusion of corporate venture capitalists in investment syndicates	8
Co-creation in effectuation processes: A stakeholder perspective on commitment reasoning	8
From platform growth to platform scaling: The role of decision rules and network effects over time	8
When sergeants can outrank generals: Person-organization fit and the performance of franchisees as agents of their franchisor	8
From distinctiveness to optimal distinctiveness: External endorsements, innovativeness and new venture funding	7
Non-probabilistic reasoning in navigating entrepreneurial uncertainty: A psychology of religious faith lens	7
Sold, not bought: Market orientation and technology as drivers of acquisitions of private biotechnology ventures	7
Rationality in the entrepreneurship process: Is being rational actually rational? Introduction to the special issue	7
When do spinouts benefit from market overlap with parent firms?	7
Calling Baumol: What telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes	7
The evolution of founder identity as an authenticity work process	7