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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Tensions at the margins of change: Re-discovering hybridity in the digitalisation of social enterprises	56
Being all things to all people: How gender shapes entrepreneurs’ multifaceted digital identities on X	46
Book review: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Learning Diamanto Politis, Lise Aaboen and Jonas Gabrielsson (eds) PolitisDiamantoAaboenLiseGabriels	45
Who you ask matters: Combining perspective taking and outsidership to identify novel and useful opportunities	39
The impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on investment and financing of local SMEs	36
It’s all about identity: The identity constructions of LGBT entrepreneurs from an intersectionality perspective	35
Is having immigrants in entrepreneurial teams good for equity crowdfunding success and long-term venture survival?	31
Rebellion against resilience? The experience of women entrepreneurs in the context of poly-crisis	30
Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Society framework: A constructive critique from a climate change perspective	28
Affect and adaptation in entrepreneurial goal pursuit	24
For richer or poorer: The emotional experiences of entrepreneurs’ spouses in the context of venture failure	23
On the consequences of firm growth	23
Informal entrepreneurship and the insidership–outsidership duality	23
Institutional environments for circular start-ups: Insights from an entrepreneurial European region	22
Entrepreneurial passion, patriotism, nationalism and resilience: Understanding Ukrainian refugee women’s entrepreneurial intentions in constrained contexts	22
Chronic health issues and entrepreneurship: Exploring the role of grit, bricolage and illness uncertainty on venture performance	21
A trauma-informed approach: Temporal reorientation, identity reconstruction and preventing retraumatisation in refugee entrepreneurship support	20
Sociocultural outsidership in entrepreneurship: Rethinking the double-edged role of marginalisation	20
Gendered crisis approach: Exploring the gendered impact of Iranian sanctions on nascent entrepreneurship outcomes	17
Instagram as an external enabler: Exploring the roles and mechanisms that shape – and challenge – social media entrepreneurship	17
Dynamic capabilities and employment during COVID-19: The moderating effect of government support	17
Incumbents versus circular start-ups in the workwear industry: Organisational and individual drivers and barriers to a circular economy	16
Legitimacy spillovers and hybrid rhetoric in crowdfunded microloans	15
Book Review: Impact Work: An ethnographic journey into the making of impact entrepreneurship, Switzerland Dumont, Guillaume DumontGuillaume, Impact Work:	15
Internationalisation as a human capital adaptation journey: The case of returnee entrepreneurs in China	14

Emotional support and new venture performance: The role of founders’ family, friends and cultural context in East Asia	13
Nuclear family, patriarchy, and regulatory focus: Empirical evidence from family firms in China	13
The weaker vessel. Survival tactics of women entrepreneurs in Ghana’s informal economy	13
Start-ups within entrepreneurial ecosystems: Transition towards a circular economy	12
Girls just wanna have funds: How women digital entrepreneurs navigate anticipated and experienced gender bias	12
Signalling for success: Subsequent grant support and female-founded university spinouts	12
Book review: Covid, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Frameworks for Future Trade and Economic Growth Richard Simmons and Nigel Culkin reviewed	12
Family firm exit: A vignette study on selling to an activist versus a steward private equity investor	12
Barriers, constraints and entrepreneurial action: The case of nascent African American entrepreneurs	12
Social entrepreneurs, fear of failure and growth aspirations: The moderating role of social value orientation	10
Editorial: Reflections on David J Storey	10
Emergent and growing entrepreneurial ecosystems: How do institutional logics shape fields of entrepreneurship?	9
Coopetition in the small business sector: Taking stock and looking forward	9
Book review: Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Those who Research (Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Resea	9
‘No-growth’ entrepreneurial strategy in microenterprises	9
The effect of social exclusion and aggregation on firm performance: Empirical evidence from entrepreneurial teams managed by minority Italian entrepreneurs	9
An evaluation of the impact of a government supported investment scheme on recipient firms	8
Hegemonic entrepreneurial masculinities in patriarchal contexts: Exploring men’s entrepreneurship in war-torn territories	8
Predictors of job crafting in SMEs working in an ICT-based mobile and multilocational manner	8
Book review: The Garment Economy: Understanding History Developing Business Models and Leveraging Digital Technologies Michelle Brandstrup, Leo-Paul Dana	8
Differential interpretation of entrepreneurial signals across genders: The role of institutional context	7
Grow fast, fail slowly: Un trepreneurial ecosystems and the fast failure paradox	7
Pivoting the self: Gendered identity construction of impoverished women transitioning from paid work to entrepreneurship in rural Indonesia	7
UK government-backed start-up loans: Tackling disadvantage and credit rationing of new entrepreneurs	7
Book review: Heritage Entrepreneurship Cultural and Creative Pursuits in Business Management Vanessa Ratten	7
The role of political connections in rapid internationalisation: A study among Chinese international new ventures	7
Collective entrepreneurship in low-income communities: The importance of collective ownership, collective processes and collective goods	7
Enabling agency in constrained contexts: How restorative entrepreneuring supports reintegration post-incarceration	7
Business model innovation in circular start-ups: Overcoming barriers in the circular plastics economy	7
Influence of strategic HRM and entrepreneurial orientation on dynamic capabilities and innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises	7
Self-interest or self-defeating? How the self-employed voted in the EU referendum	7
The entrepreneurial gender gap: The role of in-group support and national embeddedness values in young women’s entrepreneurship	6
Should sisters be doing it for themselves? Against the housewifisation of women’s entrepreneurship	6
Book review: A Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Entrepreneurship Mike Zundel and Christian G Johnsen ZundelMikeJohnsenChristian	6
Exploring the scope and depth of digitalisation in times of crisis: Implications for SME resilience	6
The effect of parental transmission of entrepreneurship on small and micro-enterprise sales performance	6
Do angels come to stay: Examining the investment model in business angels reinvestment intentions	6
Opportunity confidence and idea revision: How assessments by others shape idea work	6
The effect of personal values on both entrepreneurial intentions and new venture creation: A longitudinal analysis	6
Entrepreneurship as collective action: The next frontier	6
On-ramp or speed bump? How boards influence the internationalisation of international new ventures	6
I am a migrant entrepreneur and I can make it: Enabling identities to overcome marginalisation	5
Collective entrepreneurship and cooperatives principles: Configurations for achieving social and economic goals in cooperatives	5
Governance considerations and non-linear international scale-up behaviour among INVs	5
Book review: Tourism Entrepreneurship in Portugal and Spain: Competitive landscapes and innovative business models	5
Contributing to the sustainable development goals as normative and instrumental acts: The role of Buddhist religious logics in family SMEs	5
How political connections affect entrepreneurial risk-taking in SMEs: A symmetric assessment and a configurational approach	5
The role of equity capital in speeding cleantechs across the ‘Valley of Death’	5
Revision needed? A social constructionist perspective on measurement scales for assessing gender role stereotypes in entrepreneurship	5
Entrepreneurial finance and institutional logics in an emerging economy	5

Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers?	4
Corporate governance in international new ventures and born global firms	4
Annual review article: The dual mindset of design-driven entrepreneurship: The case for a pedagogy of making and artefact-centred entrepreneurship education	4
The influence of microcredit on the business survival of micro-entrepreneurs in France: Crowding-in or crowding-out?	4
The hazards of delivering a public loan guarantee scheme: An analysis of borrower and lender characteristics	4
Gender, masculinity and intersectionality debates in entrepreneurship	4
Integrating emotion regulation, emotional intelligence, and emotion-focused coping in the entrepreneurial context: A review and research agenda	3
SMEs and climate action: The central role of business support in building a sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystem	3
The creation of collective enterprises for social impact: An agency perspective	3
Sustainable funding for small businesses: An investigation into the dynamics of the recurring crowdfunding model	3
Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review	3