OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Enabling agency in constrained contexts: How restorative entrepreneuring supports reintegration post-incarceration	108
Being all things to all people: How gender shapes entrepreneurs’ multifaceted digital identities on X	55
Clever or foolish? Playing with the rivalry in leveraging sports sponsorships of SMEs	51
The influence of the positive affective trait on the willingness to act entrepreneurially: The mediating effect of opportunity evaluation	46
Entrepreneurship among veterans: Comparative evidence from recent surveys	37
Self-interest or self-defeating? How the self-employed voted in the EU referendum	35
Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review	29
The impact of a crisis on entrepreneurial orientation of family firms: The role of organisational decline and generational change	28
Refugee entrepreneurs: Typologies of emancipation and impact	27
UK government-backed start-up loans: Tackling disadvantage and credit rationing of new entrepreneurs	24
Entrepreneurial passion, alertness and opportunity recognition: Affective-cognitive interactions in dynamic environments	21
The creation of collective enterprises for social impact: An agency perspective	18
It’s all about identity: The identity constructions of LGBT entrepreneurs from an intersectionality perspective	17
Rebirth from the ashes: Failure events and new venture creation in Norway	17
Psychological ownership development in new venture teams	17
Family firm exit: A vignette study on selling to an activist versus a steward private equity investor	17
Sustainable funding for small businesses: An investigation into the dynamics of the recurring crowdfunding model	17
Book review: Entrepreneurial Strategy: Starting, Managing, and Scaling New Ventures	16
Book review: Heritage Entrepreneurship Cultural and Creative Pursuits in Business Management Vanessa Ratten	15
Book Review: Great minds in entrepreneurship research: Contributions, critiques, and conversations	15
Legitimacy spillovers and hybrid rhetoric in crowdfunded microloans	15
Postfeminism, hybrid mumpreneur identities and the reproduction of masculine entrepreneurship	15
Is having immigrants in entrepreneurial teams good for equity crowdfunding success and long-term venture survival?	14
Start-ups and entrepreneurial ecosystems in the circular economy: A multi-level approach for safe and just planetary boundaries	14
Business model innovation in circular start-ups: Overcoming barriers in the circular plastics economy	14

The interaction of narcissism, agreeableness and conscientiousness in entrepreneurial mentoring: Implications for learning outcomes	14
Integrating emotion regulation, emotional intelligence, and emotion-focused coping in the entrepreneurial context: A review and research agenda	13
It’s all about resources: Narcissistic CEOs and entrepreneurial orientation during disruptions	13
The synergy of causation and effectuation in the process of entrepreneurial networking: Implications for opportunity development	13
Learning how to learn and then doing it all over again: The evolving learning modes of migrant entrepreneurs	12
Affect and adaptation in entrepreneurial goal pursuit	12
Book review: Creating Communities of Practice: Entrepreneurial Learning in a University-Based Incubator	11
Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Society framework: A constructive critique from a climate change perspective	10
Book review: A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Policy	10
Richness in diversity: Towards more contemporary research conceptualisations of women’s entrepreneurship	10
Are founder-CEOs resilient to crises? The impact of founder-CEO succession on new firm survival	9
Under which circumstances do family SMES achieve high growth? A behavioural perspective	9
The door swings in and out: The impact of family support and country stability on success of women entrepreneurs in the Arab world	9
Activating collective agency in disrupted contexts: The social-cognitive context of ad hoc organising in a small and medium-sized enterprise	9
On the consequences of firm growth	8
Digital transformation in the SME context: The nexus between leadership, digital capabilities and digital strategy	8
Individual religious affiliation, religiosity and entrepreneurial intentions among students in four countries	8
Book review: Sustainability and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Lessons from Mixed Methods Research	8
Pre-entrepreneurship social status and research and development investment decision: Evidence from Chinese private enterprises	7
The emergence of team entrepreneurial passion from team helping: An affective events theory perspective	7
Institutional reforms and entrepreneurial growth ambitions	7
Start-ups within entrepreneurial ecosystems: Transition towards a circular economy	7
Collective entrepreneurship in low-income communities: The importance of collective ownership, collective processes and collective goods	7
Book review: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy	7
High growth episodes among R&D intensive firms: Evidence for Europe, US and Japan	7
David Storey: A founding father of the field of entrepreneurship research and academic career creator	6
The liability of refugeeness: Leveraging multiple identities to enact power in a context of displacement	6
Intersections of gender, ethnicity, place and innovation: Mapping the diversity of women-led SMEs in the United Kingdom	6
Coopetition strategy as naturalised practice in a cluster of informal businesses	6
Annual review article: Rethinking heteronormativity in entrepreneurship studies research	6
The entrepreneurial gender gap: The role of in-group support and national embeddedness values in young women’s entrepreneurship	6
Immanent sensemaking by entrepreneurs and the interpretation of consumer context	6
The critical role of assertiveness of women business owners in the link between firm performance and family instrumental support	5
Research and development and the financial performance of high-tech small- and medium-sized enterprises: Does managerial ability matter?	5
Contextualising rural entrepreneurship – A strong structuration perspective on gendered-local agency	5
Book review: Covid, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Frameworks for Future Trade and Economic Growth Richard Simmons and Nigel Culkin reviewed	5
On-ramp or speed bump? How boards influence the internationalisation of international new ventures	5
Linking SME international marketing agility to new technology adoption	5
Migrant entrepreneurs: Strategic approaches to overcoming liminality	5
How do entrepreneurs and their ventures benefit from prior setbacks: The mediating role of attitude towards failure	4
Book review: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa Daniel Agyapong and Rosemond Boohene (eds)	4
Exploring the scope and depth of digitalisation in times of crisis: Implications for SME resilience	4
Starting up, not slowing down: Social entrepreneurial intentions in later working-life	4
Bringing the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship to circular economies: Knowledge and values in entrepreneurial ecosystems	4
How would foreign entrepreneurs deal with pressures for corruption? A micro-foundational approach	4
From adversity to advice: Survival threats as a trigger for sustained engagement with external business support in small firms	4
Mid-size firm growth: The process and empirical examination of key drivers	4
Disaggregating womens’ agency in digital spaces in the constrained pandemic context: A postfeminist sensemaking perspective’	4
Book review: Against entrepreneurship: A critical examination	4
It all starts with a story: Questioning dominant entrepreneurial identities through collective narrative practices	4

Factor markets, institutional quality and firm formalisation: The contingent effect of economic conditions at the founding stage	4
Book Review: Networks, SMEs, and the university: The process of collaboration and open innovation	4
The effect of parental transmission of entrepreneurship on small and micro-enterprise sales performance	4
A sequential relationship between entrepreneurial orientation, human resource management practices, collective organisational engagement and innovation performance of small and medium enterprises	3
Editorial: Reflections on David J Storey	3
‘In the night kitchen’: Gender, identity and artisanal work	3
Institutional environments for circular start-ups: Insights from an entrepreneurial European region	3
Book Review:Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory	3
Everyday social support processes: Household members’ instrumental and emotional support of entrepreneurs	3
Start-ups’ business model changes during the COVID-19 pandemic: Counteracting adversities and pursuing opportunities	3
Revision needed? A social constructionist perspective on measurement scales for assessing gender role stereotypes in entrepreneurship	3