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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Program	245
Family Influence and Digital Business Model Innovation: The Enabling Role of Dynamic Capabilities	137
Entrepreneurial Identity: A Review and Research Agenda	114
Helping Entrepreneurs Help Themselves: A Review and Relational Research Agenda on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations	78
External Enablers of Entrepreneurship: A Review and Agenda for Accumulation of Strategically Actionable Knowledge	66
Happy Entrepreneurs? Everywhere? A Meta-Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Wellbeing	58
Integrating Psychological Resilience, Stress, and Coping in Entrepreneurship: A Critical Review and Research Agenda	54
Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being	48
Trailing Wives and Constrained Agency Among Women Migrant Entrepreneurs: An Intersectional Perspective	46
Signaling Theory in Entrepreneurship Research: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda	45
Understanding the Life Cycles of Entrepreneurial Teams and Their Ventures: An Agenda for Future Research	45
Entrepreneurial Framing: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions	42
Access Denied: How Equity Crowdfunding Platforms Use Quality Signals to Select New Ventures	39
Women Hold Up Half the Sky? Informal Institutions, Entrepreneurial Decisions, and Gender Gap in Venture Performance	37
Mining the Past: History Scripting Strategies and Competitive Advantage in a Family Business	37
Venturing for Others, Subject to Role Expectations? A Role Congruity Theory Approach to Social Venture Crowd Funding	37
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	36
Weathering a Crisis: A Multi-Level Analysis of Resilience in Young Ventures	34
Entrepreneurship in the Future: A Delphi Study of ETP and JBV Editorial Board Members	32
Ditching Discovery-Creation for Unified Venture Creation Research	32
A Review of Conflict and Cohesion in Social Relationships in Family Firms	31
Searching for Success—Entrepreneurs’ Responses to Crowdfunding Failure	30
Are Family Firms Doing More Innovation Output With Less Innovation Input? A Replication and Extension	29
Gender and Counterstereotypical Facial Expressions of Emotion in Crowdfunded Microlending	29
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	28

Linking CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation to Firm Performance: The Perspective of Middle Managers’ Cognition	28
Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Roles of Religion and Tradition for Transgenerational Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses	28
Venturing Motives and Venturing Types in Entrepreneurial Families: A Corporate Entrepreneurship Perspective	28
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach	28
The Entrepreneurial Story and its Implications for Research	27
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	27
Digitization in the Market for Entrepreneurial Finance: Innovative Business Models and New Financing Channels	27
Strategic Persistence in Family Business	26
The Biological Perspective in Entrepreneurship Research	26
Differences in Family-Owned SMEs’ Ethical Behavior: A Mixed Gamble Perspective of Family Firm Tax Evasion	26
Informal Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda	26
Entrepreneurial Orientation and Family Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of TMT Identity-Based and Knowledge-Based Faultlines	25
Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality	24
Entrepreneurial Passion: A Meta-Analysis of Three Measures	24
The Influence of Incubator and Accelerator Participation on Nanotechnology Venture Success	24
Venture Capital, Credit, and FinTech Start-Up Formation: A Cross-Country Study	24
Is It Okay to Study Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) at the Individual Level? Yes!	23
Transgenerational Succession and R&D Investment: A Myopic Loss Aversion Perspective	23
The Impact of Politically Connected CEOs and Boards of Directors on Firm Performance: A Study of Vietnamese Family and Nonfamily Firms	22
The Chicken or the Egg? Causal Inference in Entrepreneurial Orientation–Performance Research	22
Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed	22
BestAmong the Worst or Worst Among the Best? Socioemotional Wealth and Risk-Performance Returns for Family and Non-family Firms Under Financial Distress	22
Envisioning Entrepreneurship’s Future: Introducing Me-Search and Research Agendas	21
Self-Efficacy in Disrupted Environments: COVID-19 as a Natural Experiment	21
Equity Crowdfunders’ Human Capital and Signal Set Formation: Evidence From Eye Tracking	21
Motivating Prosocial Venturing in Response to a Humanitarian Crisis: Building Theory From the Refugee Crisis in Germany	20
Investors’ Reactions to CSR News in Family Versus Nonfamily Firms: A Study on Signal (In)credibility	20
Entrepreneurial Fraud: A Multidisciplinary Review and Synthesized Framework	20
Women Entrepreneurs Negotiating Identities in Liminal Digital Spaces	19
Varieties of Necessity Entrepreneurship – New Insights From Sub Saharan Africa	19
In Pursuit of Impact: From Research Questions to Problem Formulation in Entrepreneurship Research	18
Finding Self Among Others: Navigating the Tensions Between Personal and Social Identity	18
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	18
A Dynamic Framework of Noneconomic Goals and Inter-Family Agency Complexities in Multi-Family Firms	18
Exploring the Role of Privilege in Migrant Women’s Self-Employment	18
The End of Resilience? Managing Vulnerability Through Temporal Resourcing and Resisting	17
Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship	16
Unsuccessful Equity Crowdfunding Offerings and the Persistence in Equity Fundraising of Family Business Start-Ups	16
In the Eye of the Storm: Entrepreneurs and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis	15
Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework	15
A Historical Intervention in the “Opportunity Wars”: Forgotten Scholarship, the Discovery/Creation Disruption, and Moving Forward by Looking Backward	15
The Silicon Valley Syndrome	15
Strength in Stability: A Meta-Analysis of Family Firm Performance Moderated by Institutional Stability and Regime Type	15
More Than One Way to Tell a Story: A Configurational Approach to Storytelling in Crowdfunding	15
Self-Employment and Eudaimonic Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Problem- and Emotion-Focused Coping	15
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	14
The Middle Class of Business: Endurance as a Dependent Variable in Entrepreneurship	14
Strategic Entrepreneurship: A Review and Research Agenda	13
Family Firm Value in the Acquisition Context: A Signaling Theory Perspective	13
Logic is (Somewhat) Overrated: Image-Based Versus Concept-Based Rhetoric in Crowdfunding Narratives	12

Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility	12
Evaluating Ventures Fast and Slow: Sensemaking, Intuition, and Deliberation in Entrepreneurial Resource Provision Decisions	12
The Fork in the Road for Social Enterprises: Leveraging Moral Imagination for Long-Term Stakeholder Support	12
The Legitimization Effect of Crowdfunding Success: A Consumer Perspective	12
Narrating the Facets of Time in Entrepreneurial Action	12
How Venture Team Recommendations Influence Undue Entrepreneurial Persistence: The Impact of Self-Regulation and Experience	12
Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Activity Following Natural Disasters	12
Toward a Theory of Family Social Capital in Wealthy Transgenerational Enterprise Families	12
The Role of Political Values and Ideologies of Entrepreneurs and Financiers	11
The Promise of New Ventures’ Growth Ambitions in Early-Stage Funding: On the Crossroads between Cheap Talk and Credible Signals	11
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	11
When Forced Migrants Go Home: The Journey of Returnee Entrepreneurs in the Post-conflict Economies of Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo	11
Entrepreneurial Entropy: A Resource Exhaustion Theory of Firm Failure From Entrepreneurial Orientation	11
With(Out) a Little Help From My Friends? Reconciling Incongruous Findings on Stakeholder Management, Innovation, and Firm Performance	11
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	10
How Starting Strategy and Network Structure Shape Problemistic Search: An Examination of Venture Capital Firms	10
Stratification, Entrepreneurial Choice and Income Growth: The Moderating Role of Subnational Marketization in an Emerging Economy	10
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	10
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	10
Standards for Evaluating Impact in Entrepreneurship Education Research: Using a Descriptive Validity Framework to Enhance Methodological Rigor and Transparency	9
Looking Back To Venture Forward: Exploring Idea and Identity Work in Public Failure Narratives	9
Pandemic Makers: How Citizen Groups Mobilized Resources to Meet Local Needs in a Global Health Crisis	8
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Configurational Perspective on Failure in Newly Public Firms	8
The Long-Run Effects of Communism and Transition to a Market System on Self-Employment: The Case of Germany	8
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	8
Parenting the Successor: It Starts at Home and Leaves an Enduring Impact on the Family Business	8
Playing the Business Angel: The Impact of Well-Known Business Angels on Venture Performance	7
A System Justification Theory of Entrepreneurial Attitudinal Change During a Crisis	7
The More Enthusiastic, the Better? Unveiling a Negative Pathway From Entrepreneurs’ Displayed Enthusiasm to Funders’ Funding Intentions	7
2D:4D and Self-Employment: A Preregistered Replication Study in a Large General Population Sample	7
When Shooting for the Stars Becomes Aiming for Asterisks: P-Hacking in Family Business Research	7
A Critical Assessment of the National Expert Survey Data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	7
Wrongdoing in Publicly Listed Family- and Nonfamily-Owned Firms: A Behavioral Perspective	7
Entrepreneurial Masculinity: A Fatherhood Perspective	7
Timeout: The Role of Family-Friendly Policies in Business Start-Up Among Mothers	7