OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 12. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	115
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	60
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	55
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	50
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	44
Empowering growth: delegating decision-making authority during the evolution of new businesses	44
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	44
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	42
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	41
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	40
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	40
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	39
How internally displaced entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa restart their ventures: a tale of entrepreneurial resilience through bricolage	39
Twin transformation: a catalyst for African entrepreneurial innovation	38
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	38
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	37
Economic freedom, economic hardship and entrepreneurship: a cross-country analysis	37
Balancing financial and social goals: do social startups grow like other startups?	34
Work to live or live to work: influence of entrepreneurs’ social identity on meaningful work	34
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	34
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	33
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	33
Individual and organizational drivers of pro-social and pro-environmental entrepreneurial behavior for the institutionalization of SDGs	32
Exploring social CRM capabilities, innovation and operational efficiency in driving social enterprise performance	32
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	32

Unpacking the joint roles of energetic, motivational and recovery mechanisms in entrepreneurs' health and performance	31
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	31
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	31
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	31
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	31
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	30
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	29
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	29
Benefits of regulation to small and micro businesses	29
Blood, bonds and pivots: small family firm resilience amid exogenous shocks – a dynamic capabilities perspective	29
How small organisations develop sustainability-oriented strategies: evidence from northwest Himalayas	27
The impact of digital transformation on corporate innovation: an analysis of mediating effects from the management perspective	27
Unlocking market information use in small firms: exploring the nexus of market orientation, ownership and small firm market performance	27
The socioemotional wealth of leaders in family firm succession and corporate governance processes: a systematic literature review	27
A configurational perspective on comparative international entrepreneurship: a new approach to examining entrepreneurial activity combining clustering and qualitative comparative analysis	26
Affordable loss heuristic: scale development and validation	25
Entrepreneurial orientation, proactive market orientation and society: evidence from public service organizations in Brazil	25
Innovativeness and start-up performance: a configurational analysis of relational factors	25
Talking with venture capitalists: gender perceptions in investment decisions	25
Beyond the short-term: the effects of broad-based employee ownership on labor productivity in family and nonfamily firms	25
A new approach to entrepreneurship and regional development: key roles of purpose and well-being in the Swansea Bay City Region	25
Growth dynamics of private and state-owned listed enterprises in China: the effects of finance and ownership structure on performance and potential	24
IoT-based entrepreneurial opportunities in smart transportation: a multidimensional framework	24
The academic, the entrepreneur, the female in a dress: a micro-level exploration of multiple role identities	24
Quantification of relationships between artificial intelligence adoption in entrepreneurial enterprises and green innovation in European Union countries	24
Green rivals: a typology of generic coopetitive sustainability strategies	24
Career shock and the impact of stress, emotional exhaustion, and resources on entrepreneurial career commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Impact of founder controls on digital transformation: evidence from listed family firms in China	23
What lies beneath: using student reflections to study the entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education	23
Advancing the institutional perspective on informal entrepreneurship: a study of formalization intentions among street entrepreneurs	23
Guest editorial: Health and well-being in entrepreneurship: advancing the field through research and practice	23
International environmental opportunity virtuous cycle: the role of the actors in the internationalization support ecosystem	23
From static to dynamic embeddedness: advancing mixed embeddedness theory through the study of high-skilled migrant entrepreneurs	23
Corporate entrepreneurship champions: mapping the past and present states of the field for future advancements	23
When there is a crisis, there is an opportunity? SMEs' capabilities for durability and opportunity confidence	23
Unearthing the multidimensional roles of place attachment in sustainable entrepreneurship: a longitudinal study of an ethnic minority entrepreneur in the UK	22
Routinization propensity and high-quality new venture ideas: an unexpected synergy	22
The entrepreneur well-being check: a screener for entrepreneur mental health and well-being	22
The non-bank lending channel: an important substitute for SME bank debt	22
To fold or hold? The role of emotional ambivalence in the entrepreneurial exit intention	22
The role of artificial intelligence in entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty: a corporate entrepreneurship perspective	22
Later-working-life social entrepreneurial identities: a dynamic self-categorisation framework	22
Guest editorial: Innovative knowledge: global sustainable business	21
Founder role identity and firms’ strategic responses to crises	21
Exploring causal recipes of startup acceptance into business incubators: a cross-country study	21
Critical events and the interplay between serendipity and effectuation in an unforeseen venture creation	20
Mapping the spatial evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a clustering perspective on global investment flows	20
Professionalization in family businesses: the role of leadership style	19
Stay alert, save businesses. Planning for adversity among immigrant entrepreneurs	19
Guest editorial: Inequalities in entrepreneurship opportunities: the intersectionality of contexts, situatedness, positionalities and identities	19

Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management: comparing configurations of native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms	18
Internal R&D or external asset growth? A closer look at CEO narcissism and entrepreneurial orientation	18
Healthcare entrepreneurship: current trends and future directions	18
The contingent interplay between resources, entrepreneurship and agribusiness performance among small-scale agri-food actors	18
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs	18
Navigating gender and culture in constructing network ties: perceptions and behaviors of women founders in Jordanian digital businesses	18
Does digital governance bridge the entrepreneurship gender gap contingent on regulatory burden?	18
Intra-family succession and firm’s internationalization: a network-based resource perspective	18
Business model pivoting and digital technologies in turbulent environments	17
The impact of team resilience on team innovative behavior: the moderating role of CEO entrepreneurial alertness	17
Feasibility perceptions and nascent entrepreneurial effort: the self-regulatory role of goal commitment	17
Beyond the land of the living death: early-stage transformational entrepreneurs in digital healthcare as liminality navigator	17
Developing the future scholarship of entrepreneurship education: exploring educator authenticity through practice and identity—celebrating 10 years of the 3E conference	17
An emotional learning process? The role of socially induced and regulated emotions for the development of an entrepreneurial mindset	17
A framework for immigrant entrepreneur trajectories: integrating rural–urban contexts and necessity–opportunity entrepreneurship	17
Entrepreneurship by indigenous people in Canada and Australia: diverse modes and community implications	17
The value of AI on entrepreneurship: evidence from the European Union	17
Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation	17
How is entrepreneurial marketing shaped by E-commerce technology: a case study of Chinese pure-play e-retailers	17
Entrepreneurial business network and dynamic relational capabilities: a case study approach	16
To persist or not to persist: understanding student team responses to effectuation in the higher education classroom	16
Religiosity and entrepreneurship: women entrepreneurs in Turkiye	16
The impact of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being: a person-centered investigation	16
Gender stereotypes and Gen Z: navigating gender beliefs transfer through entrepreneurial pitching	16
Who is the entrepreneurial educator? A transferability perspective to tease out antecedents needed to form a signature pedagogy	16
The effects of neurodiversity on cognitive attributes of entrepreneurs	16
Accelerating start-ups' leap to unicorns: the role of founders' ambidextrous orientation	15
Cognitive factors in discouraged borrowers: how entrepreneur's perception affects borrowing discouragement	15
Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy	15
Does risk-taking propensity drive mindfulness toward digital transformation in family SMEs? The influence of governance mechanisms	15
Distinctiveness through community: co-legitimation processes in coworking spaces	15
Digital technologies, social entrepreneurship and resilience during crisis in developing countries: evidence from Nigeria	15
The secrets to successful entrepreneurship: how occupational experience shapes the creation and performance of start-ups	15
Guest editorial: From family entrepreneurship to family entrepreneuring	15
Refugee entrepreneurship from an intersectional approach	15
I'll be there for you: coopetition and competitor-oriented activities among South Asian restaurants in two UK regional clusters	14
Does social performance contribute to economic performance of social enterprises? The role of social enterprise reputation building	14
Strategies to evoke entrepreneurial behavior in middle managers: involvement in strategy development and the creation of psychological ownership	14
The influence of entrepreneurial culture and organizational learning on entrepreneurial orientation: the case of new technology-based firms in Iran	14
Open innovation pathway to firm performance: the role of dynamic marketing capability in Malaysian entrepreneurial firms	14
Analysing the relevance of value creation in the interconnection amongst entrepreneurship, marketing and innovation: a systematic literature review	14
The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus	14
How influence shapes academic engagement: implications for university entrepreneurial behaviour in multistakeholder projects	14
Resource configurations among digital academic spin-offs: finding the technology-market fit	13
Guest editorial: Innovative entrepreneurial behavior vs entrepreneurial activity in today's business environment	13
The impacts of entrepreneurial start-up programmes: a dynamic learning perspective	13
Island entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: current debates and future research directions	13
CEO successions in times of decline and prosperity: restoring aspiration and performance implications in family firms	13
The role of scarcity due to crisis and access to information in the entrepreneurial resilience–success nexus	13
Mitigating the lack of prior entrepreneurial experience and exposure through entrepreneurship education programs	13
Digital entrepreneurship in agrifood business: a resource bricolage perspective	12
The start-up's roadmap to private equity financing: substituting discounts with a premium in valuation for growth	12
How do environmental, social, and governance factors impact entrepreneurial finance? Evidence from the European small and medium enterprises	12
Digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education: a review of the literature	12
Business incubators as a driver of sustainable entrepreneurship development: evidence from the Italian experience	12
Pre-seed grant as an enabler of learning	12
Do government incentives increase indigenous innovation commercialisation? Empirical evidence from local Ghanaian firms	12
Promoting management skills: an intercultural comparative analysis	12
Hybrid decision architectures: exploring how facilitated AI access reconfigures startups' organizational structures and decision-making	12
Pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities is not a choice: the interplay between gender norms, contextual embeddedness, and (in)equality mechanisms in entrepreneurial contexts	12
From creation to growth: examining agile and business planning for sustained ventures	12
Entrepreneurial growth aspirations at re-entry after failure	12
Africapitalism in action: harnessing entrepreneurship and innovation for Africa’s socioeconomic transformation	12
How to secure an innovation grant for firms in new industries? Gender and resource perspectives	12
Retail micro-SME resilience during crisis: failing, surviving and thriving as outcomes of bricolage	12