OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 17. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	150
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	144
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	124
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	75
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	70
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	64
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	60
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	55
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	52
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	51
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	49
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	48
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	45
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	41
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	40
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	39
“The Odd Ones Out”: How Root Metaphors From Management Studies are Used in Mainstream Entrepreneurship Research	38
Human Capital Theory and Venture Capital Firms: Exploring “Home Runs” and “Strike Outs”—A Replication and Extension of Dimov and Shepherd (2005)	37
No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding	37
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	36
Private Equity Diversity and Talent: Do They Matter for Acquisitive Growth?	33
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	31
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	29
Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Conceptual Foundations, Integrative Theoretical Framework, and Research Agenda	28
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	27

Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	27
Politics of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Compassion Venture Expansion	27
Founders’ Social Class Origin, Risk-Taking, and Venture Performance: A Bourdieusian Lens	27
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	26
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	25
A Methodological Guide for Quantitative Analysis of Star Performance in Entrepreneurship	25
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	25
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	24
Is Blending Fintech With Traditional Finance a Top-Shelf Blend or a Sour Mix? Evidence From the Ownership of Equity Crowdfunding Platforms	24
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	24
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	23
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	23
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	23
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	22
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	21
A Real Options Reasoning Perspective on Entrepreneurs’ Decision-Making Over Time	21
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	21
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	20
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	18
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	18
The Interdependence Between Donors and Investors: Liability of Hybridity, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Affordances, and Venture Financing	17
Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship	17
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	17
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	17
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