OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 19. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	283
Entrepreneurial Entropy: A Resource Exhaustion Theory of Firm Failure From Entrepreneurial Orientation	152
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	124
Toward a Theory of Family Social Capital in Wealthy Transgenerational Enterprise Families	99
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	88
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	71
Strength in Stability: A Meta-Analysis of Family Firm Performance Moderated by Institutional Stability and Regime Type	69
Investor Intuition Promotes Gender Equality in Access to Reward-Based Crowdfunding	65
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Configurational Perspective on Failure in Newly Public Firms	60
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	51
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	50
Motivating Prosocial Venturing in Response to a Humanitarian Crisis: Building Theory From the Refugee Crisis in Germany	47
The Role of Family Ownership in Norm-Conforming Environmental Initiatives: Lessons from China	44
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	44
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	40
Entrepreneurship, Self-Organization, and Eudaimonic Well-Being: A Dynamic Approach	39
The Influence of Incubator and Accelerator Participation on Nanotechnology Venture Success	38
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	38
Access Denied: How Equity Crowdfunding Platforms Use Quality Signals to Select New Ventures	36
The Role of Context for Theory Development: Evidence From Entrepreneurship Research on Russia	34
Varieties of Necessity Entrepreneurship – New Insights From Sub Saharan Africa	34
Keeping One’s Options Open: Intermittent Exporting, Family Control, and Foreign Background	33
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	33
Overcoming Buyer-Seller Tensions in the Pre-Acquisition Process	32
Family Firm Value in the Acquisition Context: A Signaling Theory Perspective	32

A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	30
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	30
The Entrepreneurial Story and its Implications for Research	30
Let’s Focus on Solutions to Entrepreneurial Ill-Being! Recovery Interventions to Enhance Entrepreneurial Well-Being	29
A Critical Assessment of the National Expert Survey Data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	29
The Triad Divided: A Curvilinear Mediation Model Linking Founder Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy to New Venture Performance	29
Dirty Entrepreneurship: The Intersectionality of Entrepreneurs’ Dirty Recycling Businesses	28
Trailing Wives and Constrained Agency Among Women Migrant Entrepreneurs: An Intersectional Perspective	28
Narrating the Facets of Time in Entrepreneurial Action	27
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	27
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	27
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	27
Time Perspective and Entrepreneurs’ Alertness	26
Venturing for Others, Subject to Role Expectations? A Role Congruity Theory Approach to Social Venture Crowd Funding	26
Evaluating Ventures Fast and Slow: Sensemaking, Intuition, and Deliberation in Entrepreneurial Resource Provision Decisions	25
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	25
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers	25
Mining the Past: History Scripting Strategies and Competitive Advantage in a Family Business	24
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	23
Using O*Net to Study the Intersection of Entrepreneurship and Employment: A Primer	23
Standards for Evaluating Impact in Entrepreneurship Education Research: Using a Descriptive Validity Framework to Enhance Methodological Rigor and Transparency	22
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	22
Necessary Conditions and Theory-Method Compatibility in Quantitative Entrepreneurship Research	21
Finding Self Among Others: Navigating the Tensions Between Personal and Social Identity	21
Weathering the Storm: How Foreign Aid and Institutions Affect Entrepreneurship Activity Following Natural Disasters	20
Entrepreneurs’ Ethnic and Political Identity Alignment as Determinants of Access to Government Support in Africa: A Conceptual Framework	19
Entrepreneurial Framing: A Literature Review and Future Research Directions	19
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	19
Colocation of Entrepreneurs and New Firm Survival: Role of New Firm Founder’s Experiential Relatedness to Local Entrepreneurs	19