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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	134
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	125
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	112
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	68
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	60
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	59
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	56
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	56
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	52
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	49
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	45
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	43
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	43
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	42
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	41
When Shooting for the Stars Becomes Aiming for Asterisks: P-Hacking in Family Business Research	39
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
The Silicon Valley Syndrome	37
No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding	35
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	35
Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Conceptual Foundations, Integrative Theoretical Framework, and Research Agenda	33
Human Capital Theory and Venture Capital Firms: Exploring “Home Runs” and “Strike Outs”—A Replication and Extension of Dimov and Shepherd (2005)	33
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	32
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	30
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	28
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	27
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	26
Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	24
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	24
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	24
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	23
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	22
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	22
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	21
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	21
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	20
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	20
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	20
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	19
Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework	19
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	19
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	18
Shades of Grey or Black and White? How Entrepreneurs’ Use of Cognitively Complex Language Affects Investor Funding	18
The Interdependence Between Donors and Investors: Liability of Hybridity, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Affordances, and Venture Financing	17
Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship	17
Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship	17
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	17
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	17