OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 8. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: Product Recalls and the Role of COO Power	189
ETP at 50: The Past, Present, and Future of Entrepreneurship Research	105
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	96
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	75
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	72
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	69
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	66
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	65
Entrepreneurship and Physical Health: A Natural Experiment Based on the 1956 British Clean Air Act	58
Shifts in Innovation Focus in Response to Online and Offline Shareholder Activism: Unpacking Patterns in Family and Non-Family Firms	50
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	47
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	42
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	40
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	39
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	38
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	37
Mediated Reference Point Shifts: Breaking Free of the Family DNA	35
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	35
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	33
No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding	31
“The Odd Ones Out”: How Root Metaphors From Management Studies are Used in Mainstream Entrepreneurship Research	30
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	28
Human Capital Theory and Venture Capital Firms: Exploring “Home Runs” and “Strike Outs”—A Replication and Extension of Dimov and Shepherd (2005)	28
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	27
Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Conceptual Foundations, Integrative Theoretical Framework, and Research Agenda	26

Private Equity Diversity and Talent: Do They Matter for Acquisitive Growth?	26
Startup Evaluations with Generative Artificial Intelligence: An Exploratory Study on Early-Stage Investments and Survival Predictions by Large Language Models	24
Politics of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Compassion Venture Expansion	24
A Methodological Guide for Quantitative Analysis of Star Performance in Entrepreneurship	23
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	23
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	23
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	22
Founders’ Social Class Origin, Risk-Taking, and Venture Performance: A Bourdieusian Lens	22
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	21
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	21
Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	21
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	21
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	21
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	21
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	20
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	19
Seeing Expectations as “Opportunities”: Interpretive Philosophy and the Origins of “Opportunity” Perceptions	19
Is Blending Fintech With Traditional Finance a Top-Shelf Blend or a Sour Mix? Evidence From the Ownership of Equity Crowdfunding Platforms	19
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	18
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	18
Measuring Entrepreneurial Activities in the U.S.: Introducing the Entrepreneurship in the Population Survey	18
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	18
Shades of Grey or Black and White? How Entrepreneurs’ Use of Cognitively Complex Language Affects Investor Funding	17
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	17
Cognitive Processes of Signal Set From Entrepreneurs and the Importance of Herds in Equity Crowdfunding	17
A Real Options Reasoning Perspective on Entrepreneurs’ Decision-Making Over Time	17
The Interdependence Between Donors and Investors: Liability of Hybridity, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Affordances, and Venture Financing	17
Loss Aversion and Hybrid Entrepreneurship: Economic Insecurity, Low-Income Wage Work, and Side Hustles	17
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	17
Passive Consumer to Active Creator: Review of Drivers, Processes, and Outcomes of User Entrepreneurship	16
How Do Entrepreneurs Form Social Business Opportunity Beliefs? An Opportunity Actualization Perspective	16
In Pursuit of Impact: From Research Questions to Problem Formulation in Entrepreneurship Research	15
Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship	15
Playing the Business Angel: The Impact of Well-Known Business Angels on Venture Performance	15
Why and How Family Business Research Should Account for Differences Between Public and Private Family Firms	15
Misconceptions About the Theoretical Support for Family Firm Long-Term Orientation	15
Challenging What We Think We Know: Theory and Evidence for Questioning Common Beliefs About the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence	14
Evaluating Affordance-Based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making	14
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Search: The Effects of Failure Threat and Self-Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’ Ego Networks	14
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research	14
When Failure Is Not Fatal: Examining Venture Resource Acquisition Following Product Development Failure	14
Ecosystem Orchestration: Unpacking the Leadership Capabilities of Anchor Organizations in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	14
Sustainability-Oriented Institutions and the Success of Green Reward-Based Crowdfunding Campaigns	13
Overcoming Buyer-Seller Tensions in the Pre-Acquisition Process	13
Publication Notice	13
A Critical Assessment of the National Expert Survey Data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	13
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Configurational Perspective on Failure in Newly Public Firms	12
Relational Entrepreneurial Perseverance in Extreme Contexts	12
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	12
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers	12

A Blessing in Disguise: Logic (In)Compatibility, Centrality, and Social Innovation in Hybrid Social Ventures	11
What If We Took Entrepreneurship Practice Seriously? Prescriptive Theorizing From Explanatory Models for Practical Implications	11
How Does Regional Social Capital Structure the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Ethnic Diversity, and Residential Segregation?	11
Linguistic Capital, Social Capital, and Self-Employment of Rural-Urban Migrants in China	11
Dancing with Strangers? Initial Trust and the Formation of Initial Ties Between New Ventures and Corporate Venture Capitalists	11
Founder-CEO Extraversion and Sustainability Orientation in Initial Coin Offerings	10
Examining Psychological Mediators in Entrepreneurship: Experimental Designs, Remedies, and Recommendations	10
Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs	10
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	10
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory	10
Is It Okay to Study Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) at the Individual Level? Yes!	10
Taking a Second Look at the Bait: Attention to Upside Potential Versus Downside Risk in Venture Capitalists’ Staged Investment	10
Task Re-allocation in New Venture Teams: A Team Conflict Perspective	10
No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention	10
Effects of Family Ownership and Professionalization on Firms’ Financial Performance and Sustainability Reputation	9
Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions	9
The Promise of New Ventures’ Growth Ambitions in Early-Stage Funding: On the Crossroads between Cheap Talk and Credible Signals	9
Leveraging the Lab: How Pre-Founding R&D Collaboration Influences the Internationalization Timing of Academic Spin-Offs	9
Developing the Entrepreneurial Paradox Mindset: The Role of Startup Accelerators and Educational Programs	8
The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Perceived Competence and Cooperativeness in Early-Stage Financing	8
Transformational Family Leaders in Multi-Unit Complex Family Firms: A Multilevel Analysis	8
Still Waiting for Rewards? User Entrepreneur’s Reward Delivery Performance in Crowdfunding	8
Knowledge-Related Resourcefulness for Growth in Weak Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	8
Employee Welfare, Social Capital, and IPO Firm Survival	8
Global Connections, Local Impacts: The Enduring Effects of International Syndication Experience on Venture Capital Investments	8
Publication Notice	8
Digital Product Innovation Within Family Firms: A Construal Level Perspective	8
The Long-Run Effects of Communism and Transition to a Market System on Self-Employment: The Case of Germany	8
The Influence of Economics Education in School on Future Entrepreneurial Behavior	8