OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Venture Capital is 3. 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
Linear and non-linear patterns of internationalisation and funding in academic spin-offs	84
Private captive fund providers and the likelihood of achieving successful venture capital exits	46
Not just for the money: an application of the Self-Determination Theory to decode investment decision-making in equity crowdfunding	27
Factors influencing the success and failure of crowdfunding campaigns: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis	17
Financing entrepreneurial activity in Uruguay: time to default in a public microcredit institution	16
Lifespans of corporate and independent venture capitalists: a systematic review	14
The role of personality traits in entrepreneurial finance	11
Correction	11
What do we know about startup-valuation drivers? A systematic literature review	11
Getting some fuel from incumbents: bank-FinTech relationships and effects on newcomers’ performance	11
Entrepreneurial finance, agency problems and Islamic ethics: complementarities and constraints	10
Venture capital investment selection: an exploratory assessment of the role of entrepreneur personality traits	10
University venture capital in big data, regional and historical perspective: where and why has it arisen?	10
What entrepreneurial skills are the key to startup finance performance?	9
The influence of financial literacy and financial self-efficacy in equity crowdfunding investment decisions	9
What influences equity investors’ decision-making in entrepreneurial finance: a systematic literature review 1983–2022	9
Syndication networks and company survival: evidence from European venture capital deals	9
The role of entrepreneur’s experience and company control in influencing the credibility of passion as a signal in equity crowdfunding	9
Governmental venture capital policies are not all alike: design features in 11 European Countries	8
How does digital empowerment affect venture capital: an empirical study of Chinese manufacturing listed corporations in Growth Enterprise Market	8
Predicting the Startup Valuation: A deep learning approach	8
The power of narrative: engaging different audiences through media content in ICOs	8
Mapping new risks in impact investing. A bibliometric analysis of emerging challenges and threats	8
Institutional investors and investment agency costs: evidence from U.S. dual-class firms	8
The moment is now! From digital transformation to environmental performance	7

Compensation incentive, misappropriation risk, and startup innovation: the role of corporate venture capital manager in resource transfer	7
Financing green innovation startups: a systematic literature review on early-stage SME funding	7
Private equity, venture capital and patents: a bibliometric review and future research	7
The role of actively open-minded thinking and control orientation in venture capital investment outcomes	7
Venture capital and environmental information disclosure by small and medium-sized enterprises in China: a stakeholder theory perspective	7
Informal venture capital in emerging economies: a case of Pakistan	6
The impact of concentration among venture capitalists: revisiting the determinants of venture capital	6
Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises’ need for digitization to counteract COVID-19: From “nice-to-have” to “must-have”?	6
Evolution and trends in entrepreneurial finance: reflections and insights from COVID-19	5
Does writing a business plan still matter for searching and obtaining external equity finance?	5
The debt-equity choice in crowdfunding: a two-method approach	5
The impact of time constraints on new venture investment decisions: an experimental study	5
The impact mechanism of entrepreneurial competency and entrepreneurial model matching on entrepreneurial performance	5
Shared mental models: a new approach to understanding entrepreneurs’ and investors’ representations	5
A tale of dual institutional logics: the impact of government venture capital involvement on SMEs’ green innovation performance	4
The dark side of initial coin offering: the case of corporate misconduct	4
Does financial inclusion build the financial resilience of elderly women?	4
The impact of sudden public events and fiscal policy relief on the financing constraints of small and medium enterprises: a quasi-natural experiment during COVID-19	4
Entrepreneurial firm creation and economic uncertainty: an explainable artificial intelligence approach	4
Lexical sophistication and crowdfunding outcomes	4
When personality pays: observer rating of personality and financial success of equity crowdfunded startups	4
Prior co-investments and exits: a study on European venture capital syndicates	4
Business angels investing in green ventures: how do they add value to their start-ups?	4
How intuition works in venture investment: the holistic effect on decision making	3
Nascent entrepreneurship in university students: the role of the context	3
Crypto-assets: a new investment opportunity? A bibliometric study	3
ICOs after the decline: a literature review and recommendations for a sustainable development	3
Climate issues in portfolio investment decisions: a comparison of Private equity and venture capital	3
How private equity-backed buyout contracts shape corporate governance	3
SMEs entrepreneurial finance-based digital transformation: towards innovative entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial performance	3
“In this together”: on the antecedents and implications of crowdfunding community identification and trust	3
Retrospective overview of the journal venture capital using bibliometric approach	3
The impact of an entrepreneurial ecosystem on student entrepreneurship financing: a signaling perspective	3