OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 29. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	138
Work to live or live to work: influence of entrepreneurs’ social identity on meaningful work	95
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	57
Twin transformation: a catalyst for African entrepreneurial innovation	54
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	51
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	50
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	45
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	45
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	44
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	41
How internally displaced entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa restart their ventures: a tale of entrepreneurial resilience through bricolage	40
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	39
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	38
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	38
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	38
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	38
Economic freedom, economic hardship and entrepreneurship: a cross-country analysis	38
Empowering growth: delegating decision-making authority during the evolution of new businesses	38
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	36
Balancing financial and social goals: do social startups grow like other startups?	36
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	36
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	35
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	33
Individual and organizational drivers of pro-social and pro-environmental entrepreneurial behavior for the institutionalization of SDGs	33
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	33

Exploring social CRM capabilities, innovation and operational efficiency in driving social enterprise performance	33
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	32
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	31
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	31
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	29
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	29
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	29