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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	283
Entrepreneurial Entropy: A Resource Exhaustion Theory of Firm Failure From Entrepreneurial Orientation	152
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	124
Toward a Theory of Family Social Capital in Wealthy Transgenerational Enterprise Families	99
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	88
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	71
Strength in Stability: A Meta-Analysis of Family Firm Performance Moderated by Institutional Stability and Regime Type	69
Investor Intuition Promotes Gender Equality in Access to Reward-Based Crowdfunding	65
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Configurational Perspective on Failure in Newly Public Firms	60
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	51
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	50
Motivating Prosocial Venturing in Response to a Humanitarian Crisis: Building Theory From the Refugee Crisis in Germany	47
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	44
The Role of Family Ownership in Norm-Conforming Environmental Initiatives: Lessons from China	44
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	40
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach	39
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	38
The Influence of Incubator and Accelerator Participation on Nanotechnology Venture Success	38
Access Denied: How Equity Crowdfunding Platforms Use Quality Signals to Select New Ventures	36
Varieties of Necessity Entrepreneurship – New Insights From Sub Saharan Africa	34
The Role of Context for Theory Development: Evidence From Entrepreneurship Research on Russia	34
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	33
Keeping One’s Options Open: Intermittent Exporting, Family Control, and Foreign Background	33
Overcoming Buyer-Seller Tensions in the Pre-Acquisition Process	32
Family Firm Value in the Acquisition Context: A Signaling Theory Perspective	32

The Entrepreneurial Story and its Implications for Research	30
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	30
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	30
The Triad Divided: A Curvilinear Mediation Model Linking Founder Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy to New Venture Performance	29
Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being	29
A Critical Assessment of the National Expert Survey Data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	29
Trailing Wives and Constrained Agency Among Women Migrant Entrepreneurs: An Intersectional Perspective	28
Dirty Entrepreneurship: The Intersectionality of Entrepreneurs’ Dirty Recycling Businesses	28
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	27
Narrating the Facets of Time in Entrepreneurial Action	27
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	27
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	27
Venturing for Others, Subject to Role Expectations? A Role Congruity Theory Approach to Social Venture Crowd Funding	26
Time Perspective and Entrepreneurs’ Alertness	26
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers	25
Evaluating Ventures Fast and Slow: Sensemaking, Intuition, and Deliberation in Entrepreneurial Resource Provision Decisions	25
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	25
Mining the Past: History Scripting Strategies and Competitive Advantage in a Family Business	24
Using O*Net to Study the Intersection of Entrepreneurship and Employment: A Primer	23
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	23
Standards for Evaluating Impact in Entrepreneurship Education Research: Using a Descriptive Validity Framework to Enhance Methodological Rigor and Transparency	22
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	22
Finding Self Among Others: Navigating the Tensions Between Personal and Social Identity	21
Necessary Conditions and Theory-Method Compatibility in Quantitative Entrepreneurship Research	21
Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Activity Following Natural Disasters	20
Entrepreneurial Framing: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions	19
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	19
Colocation of Entrepreneurs and New Firm Survival: Role of New Firm Founder’s Experiential Relatedness to Local Entrepreneurs	19
Entrepreneurs’ Ethnic and Political Identity Alignment as Determinants of Access to Government Support in Africa: A Conceptual Framework	19
Entrepreneurship in the Future: A Delphi Study of ETP and JBV Editorial Board Members	18
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	18
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	18
Dancing with Strangers? Initial Trust and the Formation of Initial Ties Between New Ventures and Corporate Venture Capitalists	17
Self-Employment and Eudaimonic Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Problem- and Emotion-Focused Coping	16
Berlin is Hotter Than Silicon Valley! How Networking Temperature Shapes Entrepreneurs’ Networking Across Social Contexts	16
How Does Regional Social Capital Structure the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Ethnic Diversity, and Residential Segregation?	15
Concepts as Mirrors and Torches: Rigor and Relevance as Scholarly Performativity	15
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	15
Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality	14
Multi-Founding Family Firms: Effects on Firm Governance, Innovation, and Performance	14
Does a Past Category’s Success Influence Existing Entrepreneurial Fundraising?: A Legitimacy Spillover Perspective	14
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	14
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	14
The More Enthusiastic, the Better? Unveiling a Negative Pathway From Entrepreneurs’ Displayed Enthusiasm to Funders’ Funding Intentions	13
Parenting the Successor: It Starts at Home and Leaves an Enduring Impact on the Family Business	13
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	13
Examining Psychological Mediators in Entrepreneurship: Experimental Designs, Remedies, and Recommendations	12
Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions	12
Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework	12
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	11

Integrating Psychological Resilience, Stress, and Coping in Entrepreneurship: A Critical Review and Research Agenda	11
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	11
Looking Back To Venture Forward: Exploring Idea and Identity Work in Public Failure Narratives	11
Evaluating the Credibility of Entrepreneurs’ Impact Promises in Early-Stage Impact Investing	11
Ditching Discovery-Creation for Unified Venture Creation Research	11
Timeout: The Role of Family-Friendly Policies in Business Start-Up Among Mothers	10
Holding Back or Letting Go? The Effect of Emotion Suppression on Relationship Viability in New Venture Teams	10
How Different Institutional Logics Affect the Female CEO Gender Effect on IPO Underpricing in China	10
Diversity in National Culture and Financial Harvest Exit Strategy in New Technology Ventures	10
Task Re-allocation in New Venture Teams: A Team Conflict Perspective	9
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	9
Helping Entrepreneurs Help Themselves: A Review and Relational Research Agenda on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations	9
The Legitimization Effect of Crowdfunding Success: A Consumer Perspective	9
Crowdfunding Social Ventures: Who Will Reward (or Punish) Hybridity?	9
Creating Stakeholder Legitimacy in the Eyes of Stakeholders: The Case of Havana’s Paladares	8
When Shooting for the Stars Becomes Aiming for Asterisks: P-Hacking in Family Business Research	8
Digitization in the Market for Entrepreneurial Finance: Innovative Business Models and New Financing Channels	8
Founder-CEO Extraversion and Sustainability Orientation in Initial Coin Offerings	8
Family Influence and Digital Business Model Innovation: The Enabling Role of Dynamic Capabilities	8
A Review of Conflict and Cohesion in Social Relationships in Family Firms	8
Signaling Theory in Entrepreneurship Research: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda	8
Taking a Second Look at the Bait: Attention to Upside Potential Versus Downside Risk in Venture Capitalists’ Staged Investment	7
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	7
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	7
Is It Okay to Study Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) at the Individual Level? Yes!	7
Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs	7
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory	7
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	7
No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention	7