OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 9. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Toward an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research Program	179
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: Implications for Venture Creation in the Fourth Industrial Revolution	122
Moving Contexts Onto New Roads: Clues From Other Disciplines	90
Family Influence and Digital Business Model Innovation: The Enabling Role of Dynamic Capabilities	86
Advancing Qualitative Entrepreneurship Research: Leveraging Methodological Plurality for Achieving Scholarly Impact	86
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency	84
Entrepreneurial Identity: A Review and Research Agenda	84
Family Business Growth Around the World	77
Fulfilling the Process Promise: A Review and Agenda for New Venture Creation Process Research	61
Family Firms: A Breed of Extremes?	56
Planned Luck: How Incubators Can Facilitate Serendipity for Nascent Entrepreneurs Through Fostering Network Embeddedness	53
External Enablers of Entrepreneurship: A Review and Agenda for Accumulation of Strategically Actionable Knowledge	52
Democracy and Entrepreneurship	51
Helping Entrepreneurs Help Themselves: A Review and Relational Research Agenda on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations	51
Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being	37
I Am What I Pledge: The Importance of Value Alignment for Mobilizing Backers in Reward-Based Crowdfunding	37
A Call for Research on the Scaling of Organizations and the Scaling of Social Impact	37
Ban, Boom, and Echo! Entrepreneurship and Initial Coin Offerings	36
Happy Entrepreneurs? Everywhere? A Meta-Analysis of Entrepreneurship and Wellbeing	35
An Intergeneration Solidarity Perspective on Succession Intentions in Family Firms	35
Trailing Wives and Constrained Agency Among Women Migrant Entrepreneurs: An Intersectional Perspective	34
Look Who Is Talking … and Who Is Listening: Finding an Integrative “We” Voice in Entrepreneurial Scholarship	33
Understanding the Life Cycles of Entrepreneurial Teams and Their Ventures: An Agenda for Future Research	33
Historical Disease Prevalence, Cultural Values, and Global Innovation	32
Integrating Psychological Resilience, Stress, and Coping in Entrepreneurship: A Critical Review and Research Agenda	32

Access Denied: How Equity Crowdfunding Platforms Use Quality Signals to Select New Ventures	29
Entrepreneurial Workaround Practices in Severe Institutional Voids: Evidence From Kenya	29
Mining the Past: History Scripting Strategies and Competitive Advantage in a Family Business	29
A Gendered Life Course Explanation of the Exit Decision in the Context of Household Dynamics	28
Venturing for Others, Subject to Role Expectations? A Role Congruity Theory Approach to Social Venture Crowd Funding	28
Gender and Counterstereotypical Facial Expressions of Emotion in Crowdfunded Microlending	27
Entrepreneurship in the Future: A Delphi Study of ETP and JBV Editorial Board Members	27
Pursuing Impactful Entrepreneurship Research Using Artificial Intelligence	27
Ditching Discovery-Creation for Unified Venture Creation Research	26
How Passion in Entrepreneurship Develops Over Time: A Self-Regulation Perspective	26
Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Roles of Religion and Tradition for Transgenerational Entrepreneurship in Family Businesses	25
Entrepreneurial Framing: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions	25
How Rewarding Are Your Rewards? A Value-Based View of Crowdfunding Rewards and Crowdfunding Performance	25
The Biological Perspective in Entrepreneurship Research	25
Women Hold Up Half the Sky? Informal Institutions, Entrepreneurial Decisions, and Gender Gap in Venture Performance	24
Schumpeterian Entry: Innovation, Exporting, and Growth Aspirations of Entrepreneurs	24
Weathering a Crisis: A Multi-Level Analysis of Resilience in Young Ventures	24
The Social Imaginary of Emancipation in Entrepreneurship	24
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	23
It’s a Peoples Game, Isn’t It?! A Comparison Between the Investment Returns of Business Angels and Machine Learning Algorithms	23
Differences in Family-Owned SMEs’ Ethical Behavior: A Mixed Gamble Perspective of Family Firm Tax Evasion	22
A Review of Conflict and Cohesion in Social Relationships in Family Firms	22
Strategic Persistence in Family Business	22
The Entrepreneurial Story and its Implications for Research	21
Venturing Motives and Venturing Types in Entrepreneurial Families: A Corporate Entrepreneurship Perspective	21
Searching for Success—Entrepreneurs’ Responses to Crowdfunding Failure	21
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	20
Linking CEO Entrepreneurial Orientation to Firm Performance: The Perspective of Middle Managers’ Cognition	20
The Impact of Politically Connected CEOs and Boards of Directors on Firm Performance: A Study of Vietnamese Family and Nonfamily Firms	20
The Chicken or the Egg? Causal Inference in Entrepreneurial Orientation–Performance Research	19
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach	19
The Weary Founder: Sleep Problems, ADHD-Like Tendencies, and Entrepreneurial Intentions	19
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	19
Transgenerational Succession and R&D Investment: A Myopic Loss Aversion Perspective	17
Signaling Theory in Entrepreneurship Research: A Systematic Review and Research Agenda	17
Self-Efficacy in Disrupted Environments: COVID-19 as a Natural Experiment	17
Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality	17
Too Red for Crowdfunding: The Legitimation and Adoption of Crowdfunding Across Political Cultures	16
Envisioning Entrepreneurship’s Future: Introducing Me-Search and Research Agendas	16
Are Family Firms Doing More Innovation Output With Less Innovation Input? A Replication and Extension	16
Venture Capital, Credit, and FinTech Start-Up Formation: A Cross-Country Study	16
Entrepreneurial Orientation and Family Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of TMT Identity-Based and Knowledge-Based Faultlines	16
A Context-Choice Model of Niche Entrepreneurship	15
Do Stringent Bankruptcy Laws Always Deter Entrepreneurial Activities? A Study of Cultural Influences	15
Equity Crowdfunders’ Human Capital and Signal Set Formation: Evidence From Eye Tracking	15
The Influence of Incubator and Accelerator Participation on Nanotechnology Venture Success	15
Investors’ Reactions to CSR News in Family Versus Nonfamily Firms: A Study on Signal (In)credibility	14
BestAmong the Worst or Worst Among the Best? Socioemotional Wealth and Risk-Performance Returns for Family and Non-family Firms Under Financial Distress	14
Do Family Firms Have Higher or Lower Deal Valuations? A Contextual Analysis	14
Testing-the-Waters Policy With Hypothetical Investment: Evidence From Equity Crowdfunding	14

Missing the Forest for the Trees: Prior Entrepreneurial Experience, Role Identity, and Entrepreneurial Creativity	14
Motivating Prosocial Venturing in Response to a Humanitarian Crisis: Building Theory From the Refugee Crisis in Germany	14
Informal Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda	14
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	14
Entrepreneurial Fraud: A Multidisciplinary Review and Synthesized Framework	13
Varieties of Necessity Entrepreneurship – New Insights From Sub Saharan Africa	13
Entrepreneurial Passion: A Meta-Analysis of Three Measures	13
The Changing Role of Social Capital During the Venture Creation Process: A Multilevel Study	12
Exploring the Role of Privilege in Migrant Women’s Self-Employment	12
Entrepreneurial Leaps: Growth Processes in Transition Phases Between Dynamic States	12
Strength in Stability: A Meta-Analysis of Family Firm Performance Moderated by Institutional Stability and Regime Type	12
A Dynamic Framework of Noneconomic Goals and Inter-Family Agency Complexities in Multi-Family Firms	12
Digitization in the Market for Entrepreneurial Finance: Innovative Business Models and New Financing Channels	12
More Than One Way to Tell a Story: A Configurational Approach to Storytelling in Crowdfunding	11
The Polygenic Risk Score of Subjective Well-Being, Self-Employment, and Earnings Among Older Individuals*	11
Networking, Social Skills and Launching a New Business: A 3-Year Study of Nascent Entrepreneurs	11
Narrating the Facets of Time in Entrepreneurial Action	11
Logic is (Somewhat) Overrated: Image-Based Versus Concept-Based Rhetoric in Crowdfunding Narratives	11
How Venture Team Recommendations Influence Undue Entrepreneurial Persistence: The Impact of Self-Regulation and Experience	11
When Forced Migrants Go Home: The Journey of Returnee Entrepreneurs in the Post-conflict Economies of Bosnia & Herzegovina and Kosovo	11
Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework	11
The Fork in the Road for Social Enterprises: Leveraging Moral Imagination for Long-Term Stakeholder Support	11
Women Entrepreneurs Negotiating Identities in Liminal Digital Spaces	11
In the Eye of the Storm: Entrepreneurs and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis	11
Entrepreneurial Team Diversity and Productivity: The Role of Family Relationships in Nascent Ventures	11
Distrust in Banks and Fintech Participation: The Case of Peer-to-Peer Lending	10
The End of Resilience? Managing Vulnerability Through Temporal Resourcing and Resisting	10
The Dark Side of Entrepreneurs’ Creativity: Investigating How and When Entrepreneurs’ Creativity Increases the Favorability of Potential Opportunities That Harm Nature	10
Top Management Team Quality and Innovation in Venture-Backed Private Firms and IPO Market Rewards to Innovative Activity	10
A Historical Intervention in the “Opportunity Wars”: Forgotten Scholarship, the Discovery/Creation Disruption, and Moving Forward by Looking Backward	10
The Middle Class of Business: Endurance as a Dependent Variable in Entrepreneurship	10
Toward a Theory of Family Social Capital in Wealthy Transgenerational Enterprise Families	9
Intrapreneurship: Productive and Non-Productive	9
Finding Self Among Others: Navigating the Tensions Between Personal and Social Identity	9
Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship	9
One Path Does Not Fit All: A Career Path Approach to the Study of Professional Women Entrepreneurs	9
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	9
Pandemic Depression: COVID-19 and the Mental Health of the Self-Employed	9
Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Activity Following Natural Disasters	9