OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	71
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	41
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	39
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	33
Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda	33
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	30
Correction	28
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	26
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	23
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	23
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	23
A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach	21
A typology of the engaged university: an empirical investigation into how universities in Europe engage	20
Orientation towards environmental sustainability in European family versus nonfamily firms: the role of policymaker engagement and incentives	18
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	18
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	17
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	17
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	17
In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand	17
‘Put heads together’: How engaging communities of inquiry propels innovation-driven entrepreneurship in emerging economies	15
The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship	15
When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	15
Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation	14
Family firms between territory and internationalization: an authenticity based perspective	14
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	14

German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed	14
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	14
Aiming for legitimacy but perpetuating clichés – Social evaluations of the entrepreneurial identity	13
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees	12
A battle of hearts and minds: social construction of founder identity in family business exit through a family drama	12
The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management	12
Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to ‘do’ entrepreneurship	12
Sustainable entrepreneurial behaviours of family members at the intersection of family firm, cooperative and rural community: a multilevel perspective	11
External corporate venturing in family firms: a behavioural perspective	11
Blockchain and vulnerable entrepreneurial ecosystems	11
When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	11
Microfinance and micropreneurship in rural South-East Nigeria: an exploration of the effects of institutions	11
The legitimacy of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystems: perceptions of supported entrepreneurs	11
Family firms in European regions: the role of regional institutions	11
Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs	10
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and distinguishing features of effective policies – an evidence-based approach	10
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	10
Understanding the entrepreneurial resilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case of Quechuas in Bolivia	10
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	9
Exploring SME’s behavioural changes resulting from innovation policy: the effect of receiving a subsidy on intrapreneurship	9
Technology transfer offices and the formation of academic spin-off entrepreneurial teams	9
Entrepreneurial ecosystem typologies for entrepreneurial dynamism: a configurational theorizing	9
Shaping masculine entrepreneur identities through fictions	9
A discourse of virtue: how poor women entrepreneurs justify their activities in the context of moderate Islam	9
Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance	8
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	8
Redefining boundaries: the case of women angel investors in a patriarchal context	8
Transforming enterprise education: sustainable pedagogies of hope and social justice	8
‘They don’t waste money on women’: gendered entrepreneurial household dynamics and the total social organization of labour	8
Regional-level coopetition strategies and company performance: evidence from the Canadian wine industry	7
How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being	7
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	7
Clusters under pressure: the impact of a crisis in Italian industrial districts	7
Navigating mission drift in social enterprises: the interplay of social entrepreneurs’ dual “business facet” and governance structure	7
Influenced by the lives of others: narratives of role modelling throughout the start-up process	7
Failure’s virtues: the seeding of an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in a peripheral region	7