OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The role of innovation and knowledge for entrepreneurship and regional development	50
Entrepreneurial ecosystems and economic resilience at local level	47
It’s right nearby: how entrepreneurs use spatial bricolage to overcome resource constraints	43
Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda	43
Indigenous Entrepreneurship. Current issues and future lines	37
Bridging locality and internationalization – A research agenda on the sustainable development of family firms	33
Time and the dynamics of entrepreneurial ecosystems	29
Innovation and the knowledge-base for entrepreneurship: investigating SME innovation across European regions using fsQCA	27
Community enterprise, community entrepreneurship and local development: a literature review on three decades of empirical studies and theorizations	21
Entrepreneurship and embeddedness: process, context and theoretical foundations	21
Theorizing Disembedding and Re-Embedding: Resource Mobilization in Refugee Entrepreneurship	21
Neuroentrepreneurship: an integrative review and research agenda	20
Understanding entrepreneurial ecosystems using complex adaptive systems theory: getting the big picture for economic development, practice, and policy	17
Endure, escape or engage: how and when misaligned institutional logics and entrepreneurial agency contribute to the maturing of entrepreneurial ecosystems	16
‘Adopting place’: how an entrepreneurial sense of belonging can help revitalise communities	15
Crafting growth together	14
Family-centered goals, geographic focus and family firms’ internationalization: a study on export performance	14
Impairment (in)visibility and stigma: how disabled entrepreneurs gain legitimacy in mainstream and disability markets	13
A quantitative-based model to assess seed accelerators’ performance	13
Transforming enterprise education: sustainable pedagogies of hope and social justice	13
Identity work in different entrepreneurial settings: dominant interpretive repertoires and divergent striving agendas	13
Women’s empowerment and emancipation through entrepreneurship: extending Professor Alistair Anderson’s contributions	13
A practice perspective on knowledge, learning and innovation – insights from an EU network of small food producers	13
Sustainable tourism entrepreneurship in protected areas. A real options assessment of alternative management options	12
The impact of parental emotional support on the succession intentions of next-generation family business members	12

Entrepreneuring as emancipation in family business succession: a story of agony and ecstasy	11
Family firms between territory and internationalization: an authenticity based perspective	11
Blockchain and vulnerable entrepreneurial ecosystems	11
Managing through a crisis: emotional leadership strategies of high-growth entrepreneurs during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
The interconnected influences of institutional and social embeddedness on processes of social innovation: A Polanyian perspective	11
The influence of local embeddedness on the economic, social, and environmental sustainability practices of regional small firms	10
Contextualizing the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: the Chilean paradox	10
How much do network support and managerial skills affect women’s entrepreneurial success? The overlooked role of country economic development	10
Contextual understanding of care ethics in social entrepreneurship	9
Entrepreneurship as a pathway into and out of poverty: a configuration perspective	9
The impact of entrepreneurship on regional economic growth: a perspective of spatial heterogeneity	9
Flagship enterprises, entrepreneurial clusters, and business entry rates: insights from the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship	9
From family to families: pushing family entrepreneurship forward	9
Does location matter? Unpacking the dynamic relationship between the spatial context and embeddedness in women’s entrepreneurship	8
Analyzing the macro-level determinants of user entrepreneurship. The moderating role of the national culture.	8
How incubation creates value for early-stage entrepreneurs: the People-Place nexus	8
The magical language of un-realistic venture ideas in social entrepreneurship	7
Resilience and digitally-advanced entrepreneurship	7
A contextual analysis of entrepreneurial identity and experience: women entrepreneurs in Turkey	7
Entrepreneurial growth aspirations during the COVID-19 pandemic: the role of ICT infrastructure quality versus policy response	7
Exploring the interplay between context and enterprise purpose in participative social entrepreneurship: the perceptions of worker cooperative entrepreneurs	7
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	7
Family firms in European regions: the role of regional institutions	7
Family firms, Regional Competitiveness and Productivity: A Multilevel Approach	7
The patriot-preneur – China’s strategic narrative of women entrepreneurs in Chinese media	7
Intersecting where? The multi-scalar contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs	7
Understanding the entrepreneurial resilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case of Quechuas in Bolivia	7
Venture capital investment, intellectual property rights protection and firm innovation: evidence from China	7
Online communities and entrepreneuring mothers: practices of building, being and belonging	7
How does informal entrepreneurship influence the performance of small formal firms? A cross-country institutional perspective	7
Social enterprises and regional cities: working together for mutual benefit	7
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and distinguishing features of effective policies – an evidence-based approach	7
Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to ‘do’ entrepreneurship	6
Regional-level coopetition strategies and company performance: evidence from the Canadian wine industry	6
Entrepreneurial resource construction through collective bricolage on Denmark’s renewable energy Island: an ethnographic study	6
How research positions Central and Eastern European women entrepreneurs: A 30-year discourse analysis	6
Business incubation as a community of practice: an emergent cultural web	6
Creating community: the process of entrepreneurial community building for civic wealth creation	6
Why do good deeds go unnoticed? A perspective on the legitimacy Judgment of social entrepreneurship in China	6
Family involvement in governance and firm performance in industrial districts. The moderating role of the industry’s technological paradigm	6
Scaling the great wall: how women entrepreneurs in China overcome cultural barriers through digital affordances	5
Growing beyond the niche? How machines link production and networking practices of small rural food businesses	5
Narrating the ‘social’: the evolving stories of Pakistan’s social entrepreneurs	5
How small firms build resilience to ward off crises: a paradox perspective	5
In the same boat? The dynamics of embedded firms in peripheral regions	5
Redefining boundaries: the case of women angel investors in a patriarchal context	5
Aiming for legitimacy but perpetuating clichés – Social evaluations of the entrepreneurial identity	5
Clusters under pressure: the impact of a crisis in Italian industrial districts	5
The moral of the story: ‘populism’ and ‘activism’ in entrepreneurship	5
Financial wealth, socioemotional wealth, and founder exits: an empirical examination of Chinese IPOs	5

Knowledge strategies and digital technologies maturity: effects on small business performance	4
A systematic literature review of Chinese entrepreneurship: utilizing feminist theory with implications for public policy	4
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	4
Microfinance and micropreneurship in rural South-East Nigeria: an exploration of the effects of institutions	4
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	4
Death and entrepreneuring in family businesses: a complexity and stewardship perspective	4
Changing places: the generative effects of community embeddedness in place	4
A discourse of virtue: how poor women entrepreneurs justify their activities in the context of moderate Islam	4
How learning spaces matter in entrepreneurship education: introducing the concept of topopraxis	4
Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks	4
German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed	4
Cryptocurrency legitimation through rhetorical strategies: an institutional entrepreneurship approach	4
Gender and sex in starting up: a social stereotype approach	4
Inside out: The interplay between institutions and digital technologies for SMEs performance	4
The role of governance in enabling the pursuit of dual mission in bank-based impact investing	3
Board composition and corporate governance performance: investigating the effects of diversity	3
Social entrepreneurial crowdfunding: Influence of the type of rewards and of prosocial motivation on the crowds’ willingness to contribute	3
Technology transfer offices and the formation of academic spin-off entrepreneurial teams	3
When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	3
Barefoot entrepreneurs trapped in liminal spaces: the case of homeless youths in New York City	3
The effect of birth order on entrepreneurship: evidence from China	3
Of resistance to patriarchy and occupation through a virtual bazaar: an institutional theory critique of the emancipatory potential of Palestinian women’s digital entrepreneurship	3
How local geography shapes firm geography	3
Inspiring role model and compassion in nascent social entrepreneurs: does education matter?	3
The matter of locality: family firms in sparsely populated regions	3
Chinese migrant microenterprises and social capital: a multiple case study analysis in industrial clusters in Italy	3
When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	3
Exploring interfirm collaboration processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises: an institutional logics perspective	2
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	2
The distinct nature of U.S. based female immigrant entrepreneurs	2
Is older entrepreneurship being silenced? A policy analysis of Finnish government programmes	2
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	2
Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward	2
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	2
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees	2
Causal Configurations of SME Strategic Renewal in Crisis: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Quebec Entrepreneurs amid COVID-19	2
Developing venture opportunities amidst rivalry: entrepreneurs’ backgrounds and the governing role of maintaining confidence	2
The habitat of university and non-university startups	2
Strangers in my home: the 2015 refugee event in Europe and founder social identities of nascent entrepreneurs	2
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	2
A non-workshop on a socialized view of entrepreneurship: building and extending a community of practice for work on embeddedness	2
The joys and pitfalls of writing interesting research	2
Rethinking and reconceptualising entrepreneurship education a legacy from Alistair Anderson	2
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	2
Types, determinants, and outcomes of entrepreneurial behaviours during crises	2
Retaining the nonprofit mission: The case of social enterprise emergence in India from a traditional nonprofit	2