OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice 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
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	147
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	117
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	108
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	88
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	85
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	85
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	54
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	54
Access Denied: How Equity Crowdfunding Platforms Use Quality Signals to Select New Ventures	52
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	49
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	49
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	49
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	47
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	46
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	43
With(Out) a Little Help From My Friends? Reconciling Incongruous Findings on Stakeholder Management, Innovation, and Firm Performance	42
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	39
When Shooting for the Stars Becomes Aiming for Asterisks: P-Hacking in Family Business Research	37
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	37
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	36
The Silicon Valley Syndrome	36
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	35
Gender and Counterstereotypical Facial Expressions of Emotion in Crowdfunded Microlending	35
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	34
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	34

The Middle Class of Business: Endurance as a Dependent Variable in Entrepreneurship	33
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	33
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	33
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	33
How Starting Strategy and Network Structure Shape Problemistic Search: An Examination of Venture Capital Firms	31
External Enablers of Entrepreneurship: A Review and Agenda for Accumulation of Strategically Actionable Knowledge	31
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	29
Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	29
Toward a Theory of Family Social Capital in Wealthy Transgenerational Enterprise Families	29
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	29
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	28
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	27
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	27
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	26
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	25
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	25
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	25
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	23
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	23
Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework	22
Venturing for Others, Subject to Role Expectations? A Role Congruity Theory Approach to Social Venture Crowd Funding	20
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	20
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	19
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	19
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	19
Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship	18
Entrepreneurial Identity: A Review and Research Agenda	18
Helping Entrepreneurs Help Themselves: A Review and Relational Research Agenda on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations	18
Misconceptions About the Theoretical Support for Family Firm Long-Term Orientation	18
Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship	17
More Than One Way to Tell a Story: A Configurational Approach to Storytelling in Crowdfunding	17
In Pursuit of Impact: From Research Questions to Problem Formulation in Entrepreneurship Research	17
Playing the Business Angel: The Impact of Well-Known Business Angels on Venture Performance	16
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Search: The Effects of Failure Threat and Self-Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’ Ego Networks	16
Entrepreneurial Passion: A Meta-Analysis of Three Measures	15
Ecosystem Orchestration: Unpacking the Leadership Capabilities of Anchor Organizations in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	15
When Failure Is Not Fatal: Examining Venture Resource Acquisition Following Product Development Failure	15
Evaluating Affordance-Based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making	15
Self-Efficacy in Disrupted Environments: COVID-19 as a Natural Experiment	15
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research	15
Challenging What We Think We Know: Theory and Evidence for Questioning Common Beliefs About the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence	15
Overcoming Buyer-Seller Tensions in the Pre-Acquisition Process	14
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
The Influence of Incubator and Accelerator Participation on Nanotechnology Venture Success	13
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach	13
Narrating the Facets of Time in Entrepreneurial Action	13
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Configurational Perspective on Failure in Newly Public Firms	13
A Critical Assessment of the National Expert Survey Data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	12
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers	12
How Does Regional Social Capital Structure the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Ethnic Diversity, and Residential Segregation?	12

Colocation of Entrepreneurs and New Firm Survival: Role of New Firm Founder’s Experiential Relatedness to Local Entrepreneurs	12
Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality	12
Dancing with Strangers? Initial Trust and the Formation of Initial Ties Between New Ventures and Corporate Venture Capitalists	12
Standards for Evaluating Impact in Entrepreneurship Education Research: Using a Descriptive Validity Framework to Enhance Methodological Rigor and Transparency	12
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	12
Looking Back To Venture Forward: Exploring Idea and Identity Work in Public Failure Narratives	11
Examining Psychological Mediators in Entrepreneurship: Experimental Designs, Remedies, and Recommendations	11
Mining the Past: History Scripting Strategies and Competitive Advantage in a Family Business	11
Task Re-allocation in New Venture Teams: A Team Conflict Perspective	11
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory	10
Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs	10
Taking a Second Look at the Bait: Attention to Upside Potential Versus Downside Risk in Venture Capitalists’ Staged Investment	10
Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions	10
No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention	9
Bankruptcy Regulation and Self-Employment Entry: The Moderating Roles of Income Share, Parenthood, and Hybrid Entrepreneurship	9
Employee Welfare, Social Capital, and IPO Firm Survival	9
Is It Okay to Study Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) at the Individual Level? Yes!	9
Publication Notice	9
Effects of Family Ownership and Professionalization on Firms’ Financial Performance and Sustainability Reputation	9
Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility	9
Founder-CEO Extraversion and Sustainability Orientation in Initial Coin Offerings	9
The Long-Run Effects of Communism and Transition to a Market System on Self-Employment: The Case of Germany	9
A System Justification Theory of Entrepreneurial Attitudinal Change During a Crisis	8
Knowledge-Related Resourcefulness for Growth in Weak Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	8
Digital Product Innovation Within Family Firms: A Construal Level Perspective	8
In the Eye of the Storm: Entrepreneurs and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis	8
Leveraging the Lab: How Pre-Founding R&D Collaboration Influences the Internationalization Timing of Academic Spin-Offs	7
The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Perceived Competence and Cooperativeness in Early-Stage Financing	7
The Role of Stereotype Threat, Anxiety, and Emotional Intelligence in Women’s Opportunity Evaluation	7
The Promise of New Ventures’ Growth Ambitions in Early-Stage Funding: On the Crossroads between Cheap Talk and Credible Signals	7
Women Entrepreneurs Negotiating Identities in Liminal Digital Spaces	7
Rogue Entrepreneurship	7
Informal Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda	7