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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	337
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	244
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	115
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	66
Work to live or live to work: influence of entrepreneurs’ social identity on meaningful work	47
Twin transformation: a catalyst for African entrepreneurial innovation	46
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	46
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	46
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	41
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	39
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	38
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	36
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	36
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	36
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	34
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	34
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	33
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	32
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	31
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	30
Balancing financial and social goals: do social startups grow like other startups?	30
The synergistic impact of market and technology orientations on sustainable innovation performance: evidence from manufacturing firms	30
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	29
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	28

Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	28
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	27
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	27
Entrepreneurial orientation, proactive market orientation and society: evidence from public service organizations in Brazil	25
Talking with venture capitalists: gender perceptions in investment decisions	25
A configurational perspective on comparative international entrepreneurship: a new approach to examining entrepreneurial activity combining clustering and qualitative comparative analysis	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
The impact of digital transformation on corporate innovation: an analysis of mediating effects from the management perspective	25
How small organisations develop sustainability-oriented strategies: evidence from northwest Himalayas	25
The socioemotional wealth of leaders in family firm succession and corporate governance processes: a systematic literature review	24
Dissecting the effect of family business exposure on entrepreneurial implementation intention	24
Innovativeness and start-up performance: a configurational analysis of relational factors	24
Guest editorial: New technologies and entrepreneurship: exploring entrepreneurial behavior in the digital transformation era	23
Corporate entrepreneurship champions: mapping the past and present states of the field for future advancements	23
The academic, the entrepreneur, the female in a dress: a micro-level exploration of multiple role identities	23
IoT-based entrepreneurial opportunities in smart transportation: a multidimensional framework	23
Advancing the institutional perspective on informal entrepreneurship: a study of formalization intentions among street entrepreneurs	23
Examining the relationship between team-level entrepreneurial orientation and team performance	22
Career shock and the impact of stress, emotional exhaustion, and resources on entrepreneurial career commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic	22
What lies beneath: using student reflections to study the entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education	22
How does international entrepreneurial orientation influence firms' internationalization? An exploration with Indian software product top management teams	22
Impact of founder controls on digital transformation: evidence from listed family firms in China	22
The role of artificial intelligence in entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty: a corporate entrepreneurship perspective	22
Routinization propensity and high-quality new venture ideas: an unexpected synergy	21
When there is a crisis, there is an opportunity? SMEs' capabilities for durability and opportunity confidence	21
The non-bank lending channel: an important substitute for SME bank debt	21
For love or money? The effect of deadline proximity on completion contributions in online crowdfunding	21
What lies behind entrepreneurial intentions? Exploring nascent entrepreneurs’ early belief systems	20
Later-working-life social entrepreneurial identities: a dynamic self-categorisation framework	20
Internal R&D or external asset growth? A closer look at CEO narcissism and entrepreneurial orientation	20
The entrepreneur well-being check: a screener for entrepreneur mental health and well-being	20
Exploring causal recipes of startup acceptance into business incubators: a cross-country study	20
Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management: comparing configurations of native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms	20
Unearthing the multidimensional roles of place attachment in sustainable entrepreneurship: a longitudinal study of an ethnic minority entrepreneur in the UK	20
Ethnicity and the role of the founders' human and social capital in technology-based ventures	20
Navigating gender and culture in constructing network ties: perceptions and behaviors of women founders in Jordanian digital businesses	20
Does digital governance bridge the entrepreneurship gender gap contingent on regulatory burden?	19
Guest editorial: Innovative knowledge: global sustainable business	19
Founder role identity and firms’ strategic responses to crises	19
Privileged core-state migrant entrepreneurs in Poland: an ethnic economy in reverse?	19
Healthcare entrepreneurship: current trends and future directions	19
Mapping the spatial evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a clustering perspective on global investment flows	19
Is academic spin-off financing a matter of business and growth models? The Spanish case	19
Guest editorial: Inequalities in entrepreneurship opportunities: the intersectionality of contexts, situatedness, positionalities and identities	18
Beyond the land of the living death: early-stage transformational entrepreneurs in digital healthcare as liminality navigator	18
Professionalization in family businesses: the role of leadership style	18
Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: the effects of long-term orientation	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

Intra-family succession and firm’s internationalization: a network-based resource perspective	18
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs	17
Entrepreneurship by indigenous people in Canada and Australia: diverse modes and community implications	17
Developing the future scholarship of entrepreneurship education: exploring educator authenticity through practice and identity—celebrating 10 years of the 3E conference	17
Refugee entrepreneurship from an intersectional approach	17
Who is the entrepreneurial educator? A transferability perspective to tease out antecedents needed to form a signature pedagogy	17
Business model pivoting and digital technologies in turbulent environments	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
The malleability of international entrepreneurial cognitions: a natural quasi-experimental study on voluntary and involuntary shocks	16
Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy	16
Religiosity and entrepreneurship: women entrepreneurs in Turkiye	16
To persist or not to persist: understanding student team responses to effectuation in the higher education classroom	16
Entrepreneurial business network and dynamic relational capabilities: a case study approach	16
Gender stereotypes and Gen Z: navigating gender beliefs transfer through entrepreneurial pitching	16
An emotional learning process? The role of socially induced and regulated emotions for the development of an entrepreneurial mindset	16
The secrets to successful entrepreneurship: how occupational experience shapes the creation and performance of start-ups	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
How organizational readiness for digital innovation shapes digital business model innovation in family businesses	15
Exploring the emancipatory role of entrepreneurship in a developing context	15
Predictions through Lean startup? Harnessing AI-based predictions under uncertainty	15
Digital technologies, social entrepreneurship and resilience during crisis in developing countries: evidence from Nigeria	15
The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus	15
The effects of neurodiversity on cognitive attributes of entrepreneurs	15
The impact of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being: a person-centered investigation	15
Open innovation pathway to firm performance: the role of dynamic marketing capability in Malaysian entrepreneurial firms	14
Accelerating start-ups' leap to unicorns: the role of founders' ambidextrous orientation	14
Cognitive factors in discouraged borrowers: how entrepreneur's perception affects borrowing discouragement	14
Survival strategies adopted by microbusinesses during COVID-19: an exploration of ethnic minority restaurants in northern Finland	14
Guest editorial: From family entrepreneurship to family entrepreneuring	14
Does risk-taking propensity drive mindfulness toward digital transformation in family SMEs? The influence of governance mechanisms	14
I'll be there for you: coopetition and competitor-oriented activities among South Asian restaurants in two UK regional clusters	13
How to secure an innovation grant for firms in new industries? Gender and resource perspectives	13
Mitigating the lack of prior entrepreneurial experience and exposure through entrepreneurship education programs	13
Island entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: current debates and future research directions	13
Strategies to evoke entrepreneurial behavior in middle managers: involvement in strategy development and the creation of psychological ownership	13
Does social performance contribute to economic performance of social enterprises? The role of social enterprise reputation building	13
Editorial: Entrepreneurial learning: a situated and contextual process	13
CEO successions in times of decline and prosperity: restoring aspiration and performance implications in family firms	13
The influence of entrepreneurial culture and organizational learning on entrepreneurial orientation: the case of new technology-based firms in Iran	13
Analysing the relevance of value creation in the interconnection amongst entrepreneurship, marketing and innovation: a systematic literature review	13
Resource configurations among digital academic spin-offs: finding the technology-market fit	13
From immigrants to local entrepreneurs: understanding the effects of migration on entrepreneurship in a highly informal country	13
Work engagement among different types of solo self-employed: the mediating role of intrinsic job resources	12
Individual-contextual determinants of entrepreneurial service provision in the platform-based collaborative economy	12
Business incubators as a driver of sustainable entrepreneurship development: evidence from the Italian experience	12
Entrepreneurial orientation far beyond opportunity: the influence of the necessity for innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking	12
Digital entrepreneurship in agrifood business: a resource bricolage perspective	12
An exploration of the applicability of Lean Startup in small non-digital firms: an effectuation perspective	12
Guest editorial: Innovative entrepreneurial behavior vs entrepreneurial activity in today's business environment	12
Entrepreneurial growth aspirations at re-entry after failure	12
The impacts of entrepreneurial start-up programmes: a dynamic learning perspective	12
Digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education: a review of the literature	12
The start-up's roadmap to private equity financing: substituting discounts with a premium in valuation for growth	12
Happy at home, successful in competition: the beneficial role of happiness and entrepreneurial orientation for women entrepreneurs	12