OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 18. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	147
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	117
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	108
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	88
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	85
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	85
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	54
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	54
Access Denied: How Equity Crowdfunding Platforms Use Quality Signals to Select New Ventures	52
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	49
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	49
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	49
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	47
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	46
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	43
With(Out) a Little Help From My Friends? Reconciling Incongruous Findings on Stakeholder Management, Innovation, and Firm Performance	42
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	39
When Shooting for the Stars Becomes Aiming for Asterisks: P-Hacking in Family Business Research	37
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	37
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	36
The Silicon Valley Syndrome	36
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	35
Gender and Counterstereotypical Facial Expressions of Emotion in Crowdfunded Microlending	35
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	34
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	34

Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	33
The Middle Class of Business: Endurance as a Dependent Variable in Entrepreneurship	33
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	33
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	33
External Enablers of Entrepreneurship: A Review and Agenda for Accumulation of Strategically Actionable Knowledge	31
How Starting Strategy and Network Structure Shape Problemistic Search: An Examination of Venture Capital Firms	31
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	29
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	29
Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	29
Toward a Theory of Family Social Capital in Wealthy Transgenerational Enterprise Families	29
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	28
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	27
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	27
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	26
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	25
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	25
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	25
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	23
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	23
Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework	22
Venturing for Others, Subject to Role Expectations? A Role Congruity Theory Approach to Social Venture Crowd Funding	20
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	20
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	19
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	19
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	19
Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship	18
Entrepreneurial Identity: A Review and Research Agenda	18
Helping Entrepreneurs Help Themselves: A Review and Relational Research Agenda on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations	18
Misconceptions About the Theoretical Support for Family Firm Long-Term Orientation	18