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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	329
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	228
The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance	112
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	61
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	56
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	46
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	45
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	45
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	44
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	41
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	37
Work to live or live to work: influence of entrepreneurs’ social identity on meaningful work	36
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	36
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	35
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	35
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	34
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	33
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	33
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	31
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	30
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	30
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	29
The synergistic impact of market and technology orientations on sustainable innovation performance: evidence from manufacturing firms	29
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	28
Balancing financial and social goals: do social startups grow like other startups?	28

The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	28
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	28
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	27
Beyond the short-term: the effects of broad-based employee ownership on labor productivity in family and nonfamily firms	26
Talking with venture capitalists: gender perceptions in investment decisions	25
How small organisations develop sustainability-oriented strategies: evidence from northwest Himalayas	25
The impact of digital transformation on corporate innovation: an analysis of mediating effects from the management perspective	25
Entrepreneurial orientation, proactive market orientation and society: evidence from public service organizations in Brazil	25
The socioemotional wealth of leaders in family firm succession and corporate governance processes: a systematic literature review	24
A configurational perspective on comparative international entrepreneurship: a new approach to examining entrepreneurial activity combining clustering and qualitative comparative analysis	24
A new approach to entrepreneurship and regional development: key roles of purpose and well-being in the Swansea Bay City Region	24
Innovativeness and start-up performance: a configurational analysis of relational factors	24
Career shock and the impact of stress, emotional exhaustion, and resources on entrepreneurial career commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Guest editorial: New technologies and entrepreneurship: exploring entrepreneurial behavior in the digital transformation era	23
How does international entrepreneurial orientation influence firms' internationalization? An exploration with Indian software product top management teams	23
What lies beneath: using student reflections to study the entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education	23
Corporate entrepreneurship champions: mapping the past and present states of the field for future advancements	22
Examining the relationship between team-level entrepreneurial orientation and team performance	22
Impact of founder controls on digital transformation: evidence from listed family firms in China	22
Advancing the institutional perspective on informal entrepreneurship: a study of formalization intentions among street entrepreneurs	21
The academic, the entrepreneur, the female in a dress: a micro-level exploration of multiple role identities	21
IoT-based entrepreneurial opportunities in smart transportation: a multidimensional framework	21
When there is a crisis, there is an opportunity? SMEs' capabilities for durability and opportunity confidence	21
Dissecting the effect of family business exposure on entrepreneurial implementation intention	21
For love or money? The effect of deadline proximity on completion contributions in online crowdfunding	20
The non-bank lending channel: an important substitute for SME bank debt	20
Unearthing the multidimensional roles of place attachment in sustainable entrepreneurship: a longitudinal study of an ethnic minority entrepreneur in the UK	20
Later-working-life social entrepreneurial identities: a dynamic self-categorisation framework	20
The entrepreneur well-being check: a screener for entrepreneur mental health and well-being	20
What lies behind entrepreneurial intentions? Exploring nascent entrepreneurs’ early belief systems	20
Exploring causal recipes of startup acceptance into business incubators: a cross-country study	20
Healthcare entrepreneurship: current trends and future directions	19
Guest editorial: Inequalities in entrepreneurship opportunities: the intersectionality of contexts, situatedness, positionalities and identities	19
Is academic spin-off financing a matter of business and growth models? The Spanish case	19
Guest editorial: Innovative knowledge: global sustainable business	19
Navigating gender and culture in constructing network ties: perceptions and behaviors of women founders in Jordanian digital businesses	19
Ethnicity and the role of the founders' human and social capital in technology-based ventures	19
Privileged core-state migrant entrepreneurs in Poland: an ethnic economy in reverse?	19
Internal R&D or external asset growth? A closer look at CEO narcissism and entrepreneurial orientation	19
Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management: comparing configurations of native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms	19
Professionalization in family businesses: the role of leadership style	19
Founder role identity and firms’ strategic responses to crises	18
Developing the future scholarship of entrepreneurship education: exploring educator authenticity through practice and identity—celebrating 10 years of the 3E conference	18
Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: the effects of long-term orientation	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
Mapping the spatial evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a clustering perspective on global investment flows	18
The contingent interplay between resources, entrepreneurship and agribusiness performance among small-scale agri-food actors	18
Stay alert, save businesses. Planning for adversity among immigrant entrepreneurs	18
Refugee entrepreneurship from an intersectional approach	17

Business model pivoting and digital technologies in turbulent environments	17
Gender stereotypes and Gen Z: navigating gender beliefs transfer through entrepreneurial pitching	17
How organizational readiness for digital innovation shapes digital business model innovation in family businesses	17
How is entrepreneurial marketing shaped by E-commerce technology: a case study of Chinese pure-play e-retailers	17
Beyond the land of the living death: early-stage transformational entrepreneurs in digital healthcare as liminality navigator	17
Digital technologies, social entrepreneurship and resilience during crisis in developing countries: evidence from Nigeria	17
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs	17
Who is the entrepreneurial educator? A transferability perspective to tease out antecedents needed to form a signature pedagogy	17
To persist or not to persist: understanding student team responses to effectuation in the higher education classroom	17
The malleability of international entrepreneurial cognitions: a natural quasi-experimental study on voluntary and involuntary shocks	16
Entrepreneurial business network and dynamic relational capabilities: a case study approach	16
An emotional learning process? The role of socially induced and regulated emotions for the development of an entrepreneurial mindset	16
Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation	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
Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy	16
Entrepreneurship by indigenous people in Canada and Australia: diverse modes and community implications	16
The effects of neurodiversity on cognitive attributes of entrepreneurs	16
Cognitive factors in discouraged borrowers: how entrepreneur's perception affects borrowing discouragement	15
The influence of digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation on intention of family businesses to adopt artificial intelligence: examining the mediating role of business innovativeness	15
Accelerating start-ups' leap to unicorns: the role of founders' ambidextrous orientation	15
Exploring the emancipatory role of entrepreneurship in a developing context	15
Predictions through Lean startup? Harnessing AI-based predictions under uncertainty	15
The influence of entrepreneurial culture and organizational learning on entrepreneurial orientation: the case of new technology-based firms in Iran	14
The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus	14
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
Survival strategies adopted by microbusinesses during COVID-19: an exploration of ethnic minority restaurants in northern Finland	14
Strategies to evoke entrepreneurial behavior in middle managers: involvement in strategy development and the creation of psychological ownership	14
Analysing the relevance of value creation in the interconnection amongst entrepreneurship, marketing and innovation: a systematic literature review	14
Open innovation pathway to firm performance: the role of dynamic marketing capability in Malaysian entrepreneurial firms	13
How to secure an innovation grant for firms in new industries? Gender and resource perspectives	13
An exploration of the applicability of Lean Startup in small non-digital firms: an effectuation perspective	13
The secrets to successful entrepreneurship: how occupational experience shapes the creation and performance of start-ups	13
A quantitative study on crowdfunders' motivations, their sense of meaning and social welfare	13
Island entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: current debates and future research directions	13
Guest editorial: From family entrepreneurship to family entrepreneuring	13
CEO successions in times of decline and prosperity: restoring aspiration and performance implications in family firms	13
Work engagement among different types of solo self-employed: the mediating role of intrinsic job resources	13
Editorial: Entrepreneurial learning: a situated and contextual process	13
From immigrants to local entrepreneurs: understanding the effects of migration on entrepreneurship in a highly informal country	12
The impacts of entrepreneurial start-up programmes: a dynamic learning perspective	12
Digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education: a review of the literature	12
Digital entrepreneurship in agrifood business: a resource bricolage perspective	12
Mitigating the lack of prior entrepreneurial experience and exposure through entrepreneurship education programs	12
Individual-contextual determinants of entrepreneurial service provision in the platform-based collaborative economy	12
Resource configurations among digital academic spin-offs: finding the technology-market fit	12
Guest editorial: Innovative entrepreneurial behavior vs entrepreneurial activity in today's business environment	12