OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 9. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Authentic passion matters: the role of emotional labor between presenters' passion and investment decision	249
Trigger points and high growth firms: the vital role of founder “sensing” and “seizing” capabilities	104
Executive functions: a fresh perspective for entrepreneurship education	85
Creating a sustainable ripple in rural entrepreneurship – the case of Deserttulip in resource-constrained rural Jordan	60
Quality evaluation model of artificial intelligence service for startups	54
Learning to not belong: entrepreneurial learning experiences of women high-tech entrepreneurs	54
Reducing early-stage Cleantech funding gaps: an exploration of the role of Environmental Performance Indicators	50
The moderating role of individual and social resources in gender effect on entrepreneurial growth aspirations	47
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	47
Maintaining life satisfaction when faced with multiple crisis episodes: the role of entrepreneurs’ goal orientation	47
Accelerating alienation: gender and self-efficacy in the accelerator context	44
Interfirm collaboration as a performance-enhancing survival strategy within the business models of ethnic minority-owned urban restaurants affected by COVID-19	40
Resource allocation in healthcare entrepreneurial ecosystems: the strategic role of entrepreneurial support organizations	34
Beyond the land of the living death: early-stage transformational entrepreneurs in digital healthcare as liminality navigator	32
A qualitative research study of the tech startup journey through entrepreneurial pivoting	30
Customer search strategies of entrepreneurial telehealth firms – how effective is effectuation?	30
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	29
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	29
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	29
Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship	28
ICT resources and use: examining differences in pathways to improved small firm performance	27
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	27
Talk the walk: how corporate vision works for performance	25
Board's gender diversity and international entrepreneurship: intensity versus quality?	25
Explaining differences in entrepreneurial activity between immigrants and natives: moderating roles of economic, sociocultural and institutional factors	25

Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	25
Aligning strategy and digitalisation activity as an incremental or radical innovation in family farms	25
Digitalization in the cultural industry: evidence from Italian museums	25
Exploring EO strategic performance measures: value-added versus efficiency outcomes	25
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	24
Enacting disruption: how entrepreneurial ventures innovate value propositions to increase the attractiveness of their technologies	24
Community startup businesses: the impact of big five personality traits and social media technology acceptance on group buying leaders	23
Developing intrapreneurial self-efficacy through internships? Investigating agency and structure factors	21
Societal self-control and post-exit entrepreneurial intentions	21
Female digital entrepreneurship: a structured literature review	21
The effect of breadth of external pressure on leaders in small and medium-sized enterprises: does the firm become more entrepreneurial?	20
The influence of institutional and in-group collectivism practices on next-generation engagement in the family business	20
Forging a collective entrepreneurial identity within existing organizations through corporate venturing	19
Lean startup for opportunity exploitation: adoption constraints and strategies in technology new ventures	19
Agency in entrepreneurship: preparing entrepreneurship theory for another view of context	19
Is starting and staying unregistered longer beneficial for firms? The moderating role of institutional quality	19
Unravelling open innovation determinants and firm performance relationships in CEE and SEE countries	19
Legitimizing new constructivist practice for entrepreneurship educators: legitimacy as a framework to examine educators’ new practice in China	19
Culture, Islamic capital and the entrepreneurial behaviour of family firms in Saudi Arabia	19
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	18
Senior entrepreneurship dynamics: Latin America perspective	18
When does intellectual capital enhance innovation capability? A three-way interaction test	18
Low-income logics: institutions' varying impact on entrepreneurship	17
Relational models and entrepreneurship ecosystems	17
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	17
How is entrepreneurial marketing shaped by E-commerce technology: a case study of Chinese pure-play e-retailers	17
Business model pivoting and digital technologies in turbulent environments	17
The dynamics of entrepreneurial networking logics: evidence from United Kingdom high-tech start-ups	16
Unravelling the entrepreneurial ecosystem conditions spurring the global value chains: a configurational approach	16
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	16
An emotional intelligence model of entrepreneurial coping strategies	16
Researching entrepreneurship: an approach to develop subjective understanding	16
The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance	16
The role of perceived value of entrepreneurial identity in growth motivation	16
Artificial intelligence as an enabler for entrepreneurs: a systematic literature review and an agenda for future research	16
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	16
Are social and traditional entrepreneurial intentions really that different?	15
Effectual control and small firms' international performance: the mediating role of partnership and gaining new knowledge	15
Entrepreneurial decisions: viewing the affordable loss heuristic from an economic well-being perspective	15
Rural women entrepreneurs in Oman: problems and opportunities	15
“Think entrepreneur – think male”: the effect of reduced gender stereotype threat on women's entrepreneurial intention and opportunity motivation	15
Student venture creation: developing social networks within entrepreneurial ecosystems in the transition from student to entrepreneur	15
Role of socioemotional wealth (SEW) in the internationalisation of family firms	15
Interlinking institutions, entrepreneurship and economic performance	15
Enablers of students' entrepreneurial intentions: findings from PLS-SEM and fsQCA	14
Managerial dynamic capabilities of family firm retail managers: strategic enabling in a context of economic uncertainty	14
An action phase theory approach to the configuration of entrepreneurial goal and implementation intentions	14
Exploratory and exploitative linkages and innovative activity in the offshore renewable energy sector	14
Navigating the new frontier: the impact of artificial intelligence on students’ entrepreneurial competencies	14
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	14

Reconciling social enterprise: beyond the paradox perspective	13
A knowledge-based perspective on SME foreign market entry mode choices and changes	13
Impact of shame on opportunity evaluation and exploitation decisions	13
Dealing with adversity: innovation among small and medium-sized enterprises in developing economies	13
The system effects of linkages on actor disposition and resource density: an approach to university-industry linkages	12
Intersectionality of place and race: entrepreneurial performance of Arab citizens of Israel	12
Double standards in roadshows: the impact of investors’ dynamic gender-based bias on the financing performance of women entrepreneurs	12
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs	12
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	12
Identity is a matter of place: intersectional identities of Romanian women migrant entrepreneurs on the Eastern-Western European route	12
Who is the entrepreneurial educator? A transferability perspective to tease out antecedents needed to form a signature pedagogy	11
Gender and entrepreneurial intention in low-income countries: the relative roles played by anticipated financial returns versus perceived barriers for university students in Sierra Leone	11
Taken for granted or wilfully ignored? Seeking legitimacy for the entrepreneurship educator	11
The malleability of international entrepreneurial cognitions: a natural quasi-experimental study on voluntary and involuntary shocks	11
The effects of neurodiversity on cognitive attributes of entrepreneurs	11
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	11
Citizenship behavior and new venture survival: a cultural tightness-looseness capabilities lens	10
Confronting the unprecedented: micro and small businesses in the age of COVID-19	10
Social problem scale, public investment and social entrepreneurship action	10
Equity crowdfunding platforms and social media: a Twitter analysis	10
Institutional theory and institutional racism: barriers to business success faced by POC entrepreneurs and the family firm advantage	10
Assessing the factors of sustainable entrepreneurial attitude in context of educational institutions: AHP and DEMATEL approach	10
Religion, personality traits and the nature of entrepreneurial activities: insights from Scottish Muslim entrepreneurs	10
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	10
Next-generation business models for artificial intelligence start-ups in the healthcare industry	10
Designing AI implications in the venture creation process	10
Exploring entrepreneurs' business-related social media typologies: a latent class analysis approach	10
How organizational readiness for digital innovation shapes digital business model innovation in family businesses	10
Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation	10
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	10
Developing social entrepreneurship through public procurement: a wicked problem!	10
Decoding the nascent entrepreneurial pitch	10
Pivot decisions in startups: a systematic literature review	10
Exploring the ascendancy of social capital in entrepreneurial behavior: new insights from mix model perspective in digital healthcare	10
Mumpreneurs’ decision-making when facing uncertainty and competing goals	10
Cultural intelligence, entrepreneurial intentions and the moderating role of the institutional environment	10
Shaping the social orientation of academic entrepreneurship: an exploratory study	10
Exploring the impact of family and organisational values on competence diversity reluctance in rural family SMEs	9
Hybrid entrepreneurship, job satisfaction and the spillover effect of creativity	9
The influence of digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation on intention of family businesses to adopt artificial intelligence: examining the mediating role of business innovativeness	9
Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy	9
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	9
Subsistence entrepreneurship and intersectional inequalities: a case study of women from Pakistani urban-poor districts	9
An exploration of changing student entrepreneurial motivators – a longitudinal analysis	9
Ready or not? Nascent entrepreneurs’ actions and the acquisition of external financing	9
Social entrepreneurship finance: the gaps in an innovative discipline	9
Opportunities and constraints of women entrepreneurs in Jordan: an update of the 5Ms framework	9
Perceiving and accessing resources in uncertain environments: insights from waste collection ventures in Burkina Faso	9
Religiosity and entrepreneurship: women entrepreneurs in Turkiye	9
Appraisals matter: relationships between entrepreneurs' stress appraisals and venture-based outcomes	9
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	9
Building self-determination of disadvantaged groups: insights from an entrepreneurship focused program for refugees	9
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	9
Developing entrepreneurial resilience from uncertainty as usual: a learning theory approach on readiness, response and opportunity	9
Entrepreneurial dynamics in two-sided platforms: the influence of sides in the case of Friendz	9