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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	161
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	147
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	128
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	82
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	76
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	65
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	61
Entrepreneurship and Physical Health: A Natural Experiment Based on the 1956 British Clean Air Act	56
Shifts in Innovation Focus in Response to Online and Offline Shareholder Activism: Unpacking Patterns in Family and Non-Family Firms	56
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	53
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	50
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	46
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	43
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	42
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	41
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	38
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	38
“The Odd Ones Out”: How Root Metaphors From Management Studies are Used in Mainstream Entrepreneurship Research	37
No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding	36
Human Capital Theory and Venture Capital Firms: Exploring “Home Runs” and “Strike Outs”—A Replication and Extension of Dimov and Shepherd (2005)	32
Private Equity Diversity and Talent: Do They Matter for Acquisitive Growth?	31
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	30
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	29
Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Conceptual Foundations, Integrative Theoretical Framework, and Research Agenda	29

Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	29
Founders’ Social Class Origin, Risk-Taking, and Venture Performance: A Bourdieusian Lens	28
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	28
A Methodological Guide for Quantitative Analysis of Star Performance in Entrepreneurship	27
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	26
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	25
Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	24
Politics of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Compassion Venture Expansion	24
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	23
Is Blending Fintech With Traditional Finance a Top-Shelf Blend or a Sour Mix? Evidence From the Ownership of Equity Crowdfunding Platforms	23
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	22
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	22
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	22
Seeing Expectations as “Opportunities”: Interpretive Philosophy and the Origins of “Opportunity” Perceptions	20
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	19
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	19
A Real Options Reasoning Perspective on Entrepreneurs’ Decision-Making Over Time	18
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	18
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	18
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	17
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	17
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	17
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	17
The Interdependence Between Donors and Investors: Liability of Hybridity, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Affordances, and Venture Financing	17
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	17
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	17