OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	85
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	48
Entrepreneurship as a journey of resistance: reimagining socio-cultural life in the periphery	42
Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda	38
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	38
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	33
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	33
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	32
A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach	25
Correction	25
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	25
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	25
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	24
A typology of the engaged university: an empirical investigation into how universities in Europe engage	24
Orientation towards environmental sustainability in European family versus nonfamily firms: the role of policymaker engagement and incentives	24
In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand	23
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	22
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	20
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	20
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	20
‘Put heads together’: How engaging communities of inquiry propels innovation-driven entrepreneurship in emerging economies	19
Grow to last or grow to sell? Strategy making and narrative identity refocussing in business support programmes	19
When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	19
When may age not be a barrier to entrepreneurial entry of senior people? The role of individual geographical mobility experience and village democratic governance in rural areas in emerging economies	18
The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship	17

Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation	17
German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed	16
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	15
Family firms motivations and commitment to achieving sustainable development goals: a research agenda	15
The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management	15
Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to ‘do’ entrepreneurship	15
Aiming for legitimacy but perpetuating clichés – Social evaluations of the entrepreneurial identity	15
Sustainable entrepreneurial behaviours of family members at the intersection of family firm, cooperative and rural community: a multilevel perspective	14
Microfinance and micropreneurship in rural South-East Nigeria: an exploration of the effects of institutions	14
The legitimacy of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystems: perceptions of supported entrepreneurs	14
External corporate venturing in family firms: a behavioural perspective	13
A battle of hearts and minds: social construction of founder identity in family business exit through a family drama	13
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and distinguishing features of effective policies – an evidence-based approach	13
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees	13
When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	13
Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs	13
Blockchain and vulnerable entrepreneurial ecosystems	13
Fiction and the entrepreneurial imagination	11
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	11
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	11
Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance	11
Understanding the entrepreneurial resilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case of Quechuas in Bolivia	11
Exploring SME’s behavioural changes resulting from innovation policy: the effect of receiving a subsidy on intrapreneurship	11
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	10
Entrepreneurial ecosystem typologies for entrepreneurial dynamism: a configurational theorizing	10
Technology transfer offices and the formation of academic spin-off entrepreneurial teams	10
Navigating mission drift in social enterprises: the interplay of social entrepreneurs’ dual “business facet” and governance structure	9
Shaping masculine entrepreneur identities through fictions	9
Transforming enterprise education: sustainable pedagogies of hope and social justice	9
How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being	9
A discourse of virtue: how poor women entrepreneurs justify their activities in the context of moderate Islam	9
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	9
‘They don’t waste money on women’: gendered entrepreneurial household dynamics and the total social organization of labour	9
Failure’s virtues: the seeding of an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in a peripheral region	8
Influenced by the lives of others: narratives of role modelling throughout the start-up process	8
Family firm innovativeness: an investigation of family governance, commitment, and generation involvement	8
Clusters under pressure: the impact of a crisis in Italian industrial districts	8
Board composition and corporate governance performance: investigating the effects of diversity	8
Regional-level coopetition strategies and company performance: evidence from the Canadian wine industry	8
Redefining boundaries: the case of women angel investors in a patriarchal context	8
Green human resource management in a family business setting: a fuzzy set approach	8
Entrepreneurial quality in emerging economies: does communist legacy matter?	8
How incubation creates value for early-stage entrepreneurs: the People-Place nexus	8
Rethinking and reconceptualising entrepreneurship education a legacy from Alistair Anderson	7
Causal Configurations of SME Strategic Renewal in Crisis: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Quebec Entrepreneurs amid COVID-19	7
The magical language of un-realistic venture ideas in social entrepreneurship	7
‘Adopting place’: how an entrepreneurial sense of belonging can help revitalise communities	7
Agroecological entrepreneurship: a driving force in the sustainable transformation of agri-food systems	7
Exploring interfirm collaboration processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises: an institutional logics perspective	7
The patriot-preneur – China’s strategic narrative of women entrepreneurs in Chinese media	7

Examining the impact of poverty-related life stressors’ on persistence in entrepreneurship	7
Entrepreneurship as a pathway into and out of poverty: a configuration perspective	7
Entrepreneurship and embeddedness: process, context and theoretical foundations	6
How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens	6
Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures	6
Leveraging political skill in the entrepreneurial fundraising process	6
Emancipatory entrepreneurship as the lifelong pursuit of Eigensinn	6
Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks	6
Employment growth and profitability in European SMEs: the 100% speed limit	6
Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward	6
Exploring the construction of social capital within the student entrepreneurship sub-ecosystem	6
‘Start with a bold statement’ – gendered displays of confidence in entrepreneurial pitching	6
Curiosity and curious search in Entrepreneurship	6
Bending reality to your will: entrepreneurship through the lens of magical realism	6
The effect of birth order on entrepreneurship: evidence from China	6
Chronic turmoil resilience, confrontation resilience, and their dark side: women entrepreneurs in Lebanon	6
Scaling the great wall: how women entrepreneurs in China overcome cultural barriers through digital affordances	6
Public support and firm performance: a systematic review and research agenda	6
Believing in climate change: help or hindrance for entrepreneurs’ resilience?	6
Of resistance to patriarchy and occupation through a virtual bazaar: an institutional theory critique of the emancipatory potential of Palestinian women’s digital entrepreneurship	6
Intersecting where? The multi-scalar contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs	5
Enhancing product innovativeness in SMEs: the role of owners’ bonding social capital, owners’ bridging behaviours and mobilized social capital	5
Empowering entrepreneurs: age, telework, and geographic context in transitioning to knowledge-based self-employment	5
Employee layoffs in times of crisis: do family firms differ?	5
“I’d like to make a proper go of it but it’s really scary”: the perpetual liminality of informally self-employed women as stigmatized entrepreneurs	5
Changing places: the generative effects of community embeddedness in place	5
The spatial interplay between productive and destructive entrepreneurship: do institutions meet expectations in rural areas?	5
Entrepreneuring in necessity contexts: effecting change among widow entrepreneurs in Northern Ghana	5
The neurosocial alchemy of entrepreneurial transformation: a deep dive into extended mirror neuron system and neuroplasticity	5
Bricolentrepreneuring : A comparative phenomenological study of Ukrainian refugees’ entrepreneurial bricolage practices in the UK and Romania	5
Patriarchy repackaged: how a neoliberal economy and conservative gender norms shape entrepreneurial identities in Eastern Europe	4
Business incubation as a community of practice: an emergent cultural web	4
Summons from the past: spiritual calling in Indigenous entrepreneurship	4
Knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation influencing employee venturing behaviours at the national level: the moderating role of national entrepreneurial values	4
Towards an ethical awareness of entrepreneurs: a Nietzschean perspective on creative destruction	4
The impact of parental emotional support on the succession intentions of next-generation family business members	4
Fanning the flame - a process-relational view on creative hub practices for rural development	4
Entrepreneurs’ self-efficacy and business opportunity identification during COVID-19: the moderating role of social media interactions	4
Harnessing the silver tsunami: an investigation into the benefits and challenges of senior entrepreneurship in Singapore	4
Learning to navigate the landscape of participation. On the initiation of students into practices of entrepreneurship (and) education	4
Contextual understanding of care ethics in social entrepreneurship	4
Socialist imprints and innovation strategies in a transition economy	4
Tracking spatial distribution and regional characteristics of gazelles	4
Co-creating value in entrepreneurship: an exploratory study of Lebanese women	3
How local geography shapes firm geography	3
An Entrepreneurship-as-practice perspective of next-generation becoming family businesses successors: the role of discursive artefacts	3
Aligning multiple mandates and mission simultaneously: a case of small and medium-sized social enterprises in South Africa	3
National culture and entrepreneurial orientation in a hostile environment: a study of informal enterprises in Nigeria	3
Neuroentrepreneurship: an integrative review and research agenda	3
Neruda through copper-coloured glasses: the role of place attachment in the embeddedness of Chilean entrepreneurship	3
Female gender interests and education in women entrepreneurs’ definition of success in Uganda	3
The interconnected influences of institutional and social embeddedness on processes of social innovation: A Polanyian perspective	3
Does location matter? Unpacking the dynamic relationship between the spatial context and embeddedness in women’s entrepreneurship	3
Theorizing Disembedding and Re-Embedding: Resource Mobilization in Refugee Entrepreneurship	3
Indigenous Entrepreneurship. Current issues and future lines	3
Community enterprise, community entrepreneurship and local development: a literature review on three decades of empirical studies and theorizations	3
“As if it were home”: an exploratory study of the role of homesickness among migrant entrepreneurs	3
Entrepreneuring as emancipation in family business succession: a story of agony and ecstasy	3
Strategic agencement: how sustainable entrepreneurs address the dual liabilities of newness and otherness	3
How do entrepreneurial ecosystem promotes entrepreneurship in non-core regions? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis based on western China	3
The moral of the story: ‘populism’ and ‘activism’ in entrepreneurship	3
Homogenization processes in entrepreneurship education: the case of Junior Achievement	3
Correction	3
A performative perspective on sensing, seizing, and transforming in small- and medium-sized enterprises	3