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 2022-05-01 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
Economic freedom, economic hardship and entrepreneurship: a cross-country analysis	38
Empowering growth: delegating decision-making authority during the evolution of new businesses	38
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
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	36
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	36
Balancing financial and social goals: do social startups grow like other startups?	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
Beyond the short-term: the effects of broad-based employee ownership on labor productivity in family and nonfamily firms	28
Talking with venture capitalists: gender perceptions in investment decisions	28
The synergistic impact of market and technology orientations on sustainable innovation performance: evidence from manufacturing firms	28
Unpacking the joint roles of energetic, motivational and recovery mechanisms in entrepreneurs' health and performance	28
The socioemotional wealth of leaders in family firm succession and corporate governance processes: a systematic literature review	28
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	26
Unlocking market information use in small firms: exploring the nexus of market orientation, ownership and small firm market performance	26
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
Growth dynamics of private and state-owned listed enterprises in China: the effects of finance and ownership structure on performance and potential	24
Affordable loss heuristic: scale development and validation	24
International environmental opportunity virtuous cycle: the role of the actors in the internationalization support ecosystem	24
A new approach to entrepreneurship and regional development: key roles of purpose and well-being in the Swansea Bay City Region	24
Advancing the institutional perspective on informal entrepreneurship: a study of formalization intentions among street entrepreneurs	24
A configurational perspective on comparative international entrepreneurship: a new approach to examining entrepreneurial activity combining clustering and qualitative comparative analysis	24
What lies beneath: using student reflections to study the entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education	23
Green rivals: a typology of generic coopetitive sustainability strategies	23
The academic, the entrepreneur, the female in a dress: a micro-level exploration of multiple role identities	23
Career shock and the impact of stress, emotional exhaustion, and resources on entrepreneurial career commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic	23
Unearthing the multidimensional roles of place attachment in sustainable entrepreneurship: a longitudinal study of an ethnic minority entrepreneur in the UK	22
Impact of founder controls on digital transformation: evidence from listed family firms in China	22
When there is a crisis, there is an opportunity? SMEs' capabilities for durability and opportunity confidence	22
The role of artificial intelligence in entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty: a corporate entrepreneurship perspective	22
Guest editorial: New technologies and entrepreneurship: exploring entrepreneurial behavior in the digital transformation era	22
Guest editorial: Health and well-being in entrepreneurship: advancing the field through research and practice	22
Corporate entrepreneurship champions: mapping the past and present states of the field for future advancements	22
Dissecting the effect of family business exposure on entrepreneurial implementation intention	22
How does international entrepreneurial orientation influence firms' internationalization? An exploration with Indian software product top management teams	22
IoT-based entrepreneurial opportunities in smart transportation: a multidimensional framework	22
The non-bank lending channel: an important substitute for SME bank debt	21
Exploring causal recipes of startup acceptance into business incubators: a cross-country study	21
To fold or hold? The role of emotional ambivalence in the entrepreneurial exit intention	21
Later-working-life social entrepreneurial identities: a dynamic self-categorisation framework	21
What lies behind entrepreneurial intentions? Exploring nascent entrepreneurs’ early belief systems	21
Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: the effects of long-term orientation	20
The contingent interplay between resources, entrepreneurship and agribusiness performance among small-scale agri-food actors	20
Guest editorial: Innovative knowledge: global sustainable business	20
The entrepreneur well-being check: a screener for entrepreneur mental health and well-being	20
Navigating gender and culture in constructing network ties: perceptions and behaviors of women founders in Jordanian digital businesses	20
Healthcare entrepreneurship: current trends and future directions	20
Internal R&D or external asset growth? A closer look at CEO narcissism and entrepreneurial orientation	20
Does digital governance bridge the entrepreneurship gender gap contingent on regulatory burden?	20

Mapping the spatial evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a clustering perspective on global investment flows	20
Routinization propensity and high-quality new venture ideas: an unexpected synergy	20
Founder role identity and firms’ strategic responses to crises	19
Ethnicity and the role of the founders' human and social capital in technology-based ventures	19
Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management: comparing configurations of native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms	19
Stay alert, save businesses. Planning for adversity among immigrant entrepreneurs	19
Critical events and the interplay between serendipity and effectuation in an unforeseen venture creation	18
Guest editorial: Inequalities in entrepreneurship opportunities: the intersectionality of contexts, situatedness, positionalities and identities	18
Intra-family succession and firm’s internationalization: a network-based resource perspective	17
Beyond the land of the living death: early-stage transformational entrepreneurs in digital healthcare as liminality navigator	17
Professionalization in family businesses: the role of leadership style	17
The impact of team resilience on team innovative behavior: the moderating role of CEO entrepreneurial alertness	17
The value of AI on entrepreneurship: evidence from the European Union	16
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs	16
Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation	16
How organizational readiness for digital innovation shapes digital business model innovation in family businesses	16
Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy	16
Developing the future scholarship of entrepreneurship education: exploring educator authenticity through practice and identity—celebrating 10 years of the 3E conference	16
Business model pivoting and digital technologies in turbulent environments	16
The influence of digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation on intention of family businesses to adopt artificial intelligence: examining the mediating role of business innovativeness	16
An emotional learning process? The role of socially induced and regulated emotions for the development of an entrepreneurial mindset	16
How is entrepreneurial marketing shaped by E-commerce technology: a case study of Chinese pure-play e-retailers	16
Distinctiveness through community: co-legitimation processes in coworking spaces	16
Gender stereotypes and Gen Z: navigating gender beliefs transfer through entrepreneurial pitching	16
Digital technologies, social entrepreneurship and resilience during crisis in developing countries: evidence from Nigeria	15
The effects of neurodiversity on cognitive attributes of entrepreneurs	15
Feasibility perceptions and nascent entrepreneurial effort: the self-regulatory role of goal commitment	15
To persist or not to persist: understanding student team responses to effectuation in the higher education classroom	15
Religiosity and entrepreneurship: women entrepreneurs in Turkiye	15
Refugee entrepreneurship from an intersectional approach	15
Entrepreneurship by indigenous people in Canada and Australia: diverse modes and community implications	15
Entrepreneurial business network and dynamic relational capabilities: a case study approach	15
The impact of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being: a person-centered investigation	15
Who is the entrepreneurial educator? A transferability perspective to tease out antecedents needed to form a signature pedagogy	15
I'll be there for you: coopetition and competitor-oriented activities among South Asian restaurants in two UK regional clusters	14
The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus	14
Strategies to evoke entrepreneurial behavior in middle managers: involvement in strategy development and the creation of psychological ownership	14
Does social performance contribute to economic performance of social enterprises? The role of social enterprise reputation building	14
Guest editorial: From family entrepreneurship to family entrepreneuring	14
Cognitive factors in discouraged borrowers: how entrepreneur's perception affects borrowing discouragement	14
Does risk-taking propensity drive mindfulness toward digital transformation in family SMEs? The influence of governance mechanisms	13
The influence of entrepreneurial culture and organizational learning on entrepreneurial orientation: the case of new technology-based firms in Iran	13
Open innovation pathway to firm performance: the role of dynamic marketing capability in Malaysian entrepreneurial firms	13
Accelerating start-ups' leap to unicorns: the role of founders' ambidextrous orientation	13
Analysing the relevance of value creation in the interconnection amongst entrepreneurship, marketing and innovation: a systematic literature review	13
CEO successions in times of decline and prosperity: restoring aspiration and performance implications in family firms	12
Island entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: current debates and future research directions	12
How to secure an innovation grant for firms in new industries? Gender and resource perspectives	12
Digital entrepreneurship in agrifood business: a resource bricolage perspective	12
The secrets to successful entrepreneurship: how occupational experience shapes the creation and performance of start-ups	12
Resource configurations among digital academic spin-offs: finding the technology-market fit	12
An exploration of the applicability of Lean Startup in small non-digital firms: an effectuation perspective	12
Mitigating the lack of prior entrepreneurial experience and exposure through entrepreneurship education programs	12
The impacts of entrepreneurial start-up programmes: a dynamic learning perspective	12
Work engagement among different types of solo self-employed: the mediating role of intrinsic job resources	12
Guest editorial: Innovative entrepreneurial behavior vs entrepreneurial activity in today's business environment	12