OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 28. 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
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	289
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	150
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	130
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	82
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	81
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	71
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	65
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	61
The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance	52
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	45
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	44
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	38
Are social and traditional entrepreneurial intentions really that different?	37
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	35
Student venture creation: developing social networks within entrepreneurial ecosystems in the transition from student to entrepreneur	35
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	33
Entrepreneurial approach for open innovation: opening new opportunities, mapping knowledge and highlighting gaps	33
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	33
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	33
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	32
Causal modelling of failure fears for international entrepreneurs in tourism industry: a hybrid Delphi-DEMATEL based approach	32
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	31
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	31
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	30
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	30

Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	29
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	29
The synergistic impact of market and technology orientations on sustainable innovation performance: evidence from manufacturing firms	28
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	28