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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
It’s all about identity: The identity constructions of LGBT entrepreneurs from an intersectionality perspective	127
Being all things to all people: How gender shapes entrepreneurs’ multifaceted digital identities on X	58
Is having immigrants in entrepreneurial teams good for equity crowdfunding success and long-term venture survival?	51
Book review: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Learning PolitisDiamantoAaboenLiseGabrielssonJonas (eds), Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Learning, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing	42
Rebellion against resilience? The experience of women entrepreneurs in the context of poly-crisis	36
Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Society framework: A constructive critique from a climate change perspective	34
Individual religious affiliation, religiosity and entrepreneurial intentions among students in four countries	31
The emergence of team entrepreneurial passion from team helping: An affective events theory perspective	26
On the consequences of firm growth	23
Affect and adaptation in entrepreneurial goal pursuit	23
Informal entrepreneurship and the insidership–outsidership duality	21
Interpretation of successful and failed events in entrepreneurial firms: Acknowledgement practice under uncertainty	21
Institutional environments for circular start-ups: Insights from an entrepreneurial European region	21
A trauma-informed approach: Temporal reorientation, identity reconstruction and preventing retraumatisation in refugee entrepreneurship support	20
The drivers of the post-entry internationalisation commitment of small and medium-sized enterprises	20
Chronic health issues and entrepreneurship: Exploring the role of grit, bricolage and illness uncertainty on venture performance	20
Gendered crisis approach: Exploring the gendered impact of Iranian sanctions on nascent entrepreneurship outcomes	20
Dynamic capabilities and employment during COVID-19: The moderating effect of government support	20
Incumbents versus circular start-ups in the workwear industry: Organisational and individual drivers and barriers to a circular economy	19
How women in the UAE enact entrepreneurial identities to build legitimacy	19
Legitimacy and innovation in social enterprises	19
Engaging symbiotic ecosystems to build community centred business models for the BoP: Evidence from small social enterprises in East Africa	18
Family firm exit: A vignette study on selling to an activist versus a steward private equity investor	18
Legitimacy spillovers and hybrid rhetoric in crowdfunded microloans	18
The weaker vessel. Survival tactics of women entrepreneurs in Ghana’s informal economy	17

Internationalisation as a human capital adaptation journey: The case of returnee entrepreneurs in China	17
Nuclear family, patriarchy, and regulatory focus: Empirical evidence from family firms in China	17
Start-ups within entrepreneurial ecosystems: Transition towards a circular economy	16
Pre-entrepreneurship social status and research and development investment decision: Evidence from Chinese private enterprises	15
Book review: Covid, Brexit and the Anglosphere: Frameworks for Future Trade and Economic Growth Richard Simmons and Nigel Culkin reviewed	15
Barriers, constraints and entrepreneurial action: The case of nascent African American entrepreneurs	14
Everyday social support processes: Household members’ instrumental and emotional support of entrepreneurs	14
Legitimation work in sustainable entrepreneurship: Sustainability ventures’ journey towards the establishment of major partnerships	13
Coopetition in the small business sector: Taking stock and looking forward	13
The effect of social exclusion and aggregation on firm performance: Empirical evidence from entrepreneurial teams managed by minority Italian entrepreneurs	13
Emergent and growing entrepreneurial ecosystems: How do institutional logics shape fields of entrepreneurship?	12
Book review: Nurturing Modalities of Inquiry in Entrepreneurship Research: Seeing the World Through the Eyes of Those who Research (Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship Research, 17)	12
‘No-growth’ entrepreneurial strategy in microenterprises	12
Editorial: Reflections on David J Storey	12
Book review: Immigrant entrepreneurship: Cases from contemporary Poland	11
Social entrepreneurs, fear of failure and growth aspirations: The moderating role of social value orientation	11
Hegemonic entrepreneurial masculinities in patriarchal contexts: Exploring men’s entrepreneurship in war-torn territories	10
Book review: The Garment Economy: Understanding History Developing Business Models and Leveraging Digital Technologies Michelle Brandstrup, Leo-Paul Dana, Daniella Rydin	10
SMEs and exogenous shocks: A conceptual literature review and forward research agenda	10
Influence of strategic HRM and entrepreneurial orientation on dynamic capabilities and innovation in small- and medium-sized enterprises	10
Predictors of job crafting in SMEs working in an ICT-based mobile and multilocational manner	10
The role of political connections in rapid internationalisation: A study among Chinese international new ventures	9
The influence of the positive affective trait on the willingness to act entrepreneurially: The mediating effect of opportunity evaluation	9
Predicting future default on the Covid-19 bounce back loan scheme: The £46.5 billion question	9
Book review: Heritage Entrepreneurship Cultural and Creative Pursuits in Business Management Vanessa Ratten	9
Enabling agency in constrained contexts: How restorative entrepreneuring supports reintegration post-incarceration	8
Immanent sensemaking by entrepreneurs and the interpretation of consumer context	8
Starting up, not slowing down: Social entrepreneurial intentions in later working-life	8
Self-interest or self-defeating? How the self-employed voted in the EU referendum	8
UK government-backed start-up loans: Tackling disadvantage and credit rationing of new entrepreneurs	8
Collective entrepreneurship in low-income communities: The importance of collective ownership, collective processes and collective goods	8
On-ramp or speed bump? How boards influence the internationalisation of international new ventures	8
Business model innovation in circular start-ups: Overcoming barriers in the circular plastics economy	8
The entrepreneurial gender gap: The role of in-group support and national embeddedness values in young women’s entrepreneurship	8
Coopetition strategy as naturalised practice in a cluster of informal businesses	8
The effect of parental transmission of entrepreneurship on small and micro-enterprise sales performance	7
Book Review:Contextualizing Entrepreneurship Theory	7
Exploring the scope and depth of digitalisation in times of crisis: Implications for SME resilience	7
Book review: Tourism Entrepreneurship in Portugal and Spain: Competitive landscapes and innovative business models	6
Governance considerations and non-linear international scale-up behaviour among INVs	6
Entrepreneurship as collective action: The next frontier	6
Collective entrepreneurship and cooperatives principles: Configurations for achieving social and economic goals in cooperatives	6
Revision needed? A social constructionist perspective on measurement scales for assessing gender role stereotypes in entrepreneurship	6
I am a migrant entrepreneur and I can make it: Enabling identities to overcome marginalisation	6
Book Review: Peace entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship: Life stories from Israelis and Palestinians	5
How political connections affect entrepreneurial risk-taking in SMEs: A symmetric assessment and a configurational approach	5
Entrepreneurial finance and institutional logics in an emerging economy	5
The impact of trust on social and financial capital acquisition: A resource integration perspective in minority-owned entrepreneurial organisations	5
The role of equity capital in speeding cleantechs across the ‘Valley of Death’	5
Contributing to the sustainable development goals as normative and instrumental acts: The role of Buddhist religious logics in family SMEs	5

Relying on the engagement of others: A review of the governance choices facing social media platform start-ups	5
Annual review article: The dual mindset of design-driven entrepreneurship: The case for a pedagogy of making and artefact-centred entrepreneurship education	4
Corporate governance in international new ventures and born global firms	4
Do enterprise education competitions have gendered outcomes amongst STEM early-career researchers?	4
The hazards of delivering a public loan guarantee scheme: An analysis of borrower and lender characteristics	4
Sustainable funding for small businesses: An investigation into the dynamics of the recurring crowdfunding model	4
The influence of microcredit on the business survival of micro-entrepreneurs in France: Crowding-in or crowding-out?	4
Intersections of gender, ethnicity, place and innovation: Mapping the diversity of women-led SMEs in the United Kingdom	3
Institutional reforms and entrepreneurial growth ambitions	3
Book review: Questioning the Entrepreneurial State: Status-quo, Pitfalls, and the Need for Credible Innovation Policy	3
How would foreign entrepreneurs deal with pressures for corruption? A micro-foundational approach	3
Integrating emotion regulation, emotional intelligence, and emotion-focused coping in the entrepreneurial context: A review and research agenda	3
David Storey: A founding father of the field of entrepreneurship research and academic career creator	3
Mid-size firm growth: The process and empirical examination of key drivers	3
The synergy of causation and effectuation in the process of entrepreneurial networking: Implications for opportunity development	3
Are founder-CEOs resilient to crises? The impact of founder-CEO succession on new firm survival	3
Opening up the black box of family entrepreneurship across generations: A systematic literature review	3
Activating collective agency in disrupted contexts: The social-cognitive context of ad hoc organising in a small and medium-sized enterprise	3
The door swings in and out: The impact of family support and country stability on success of women entrepreneurs in the Arab world	3
Book review: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Africa Daniel Agyapong and Rosemond Boohene (eds)	3
The creation of collective enterprises for social impact: An agency perspective	3
Start-ups and entrepreneurial ecosystems in the circular economy: A multi-level approach for safe and just planetary boundaries	3