OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Small Business Journal-Researching Entrepreneurship is 8. 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
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
It’s all about identity: The identity constructions of LGBT entrepreneurs from an intersectionality perspective	17
Book review: Entrepreneurial Strategy: Starting, Managing, and Scaling New Ventures	16
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
Book review: Heritage Entrepreneurship Cultural and Creative Pursuits in Business Management Vanessa Ratten	15
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

Is having immigrants in entrepreneurial teams good for equity crowdfunding success and long-term venture survival?	14
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
Integrating emotion regulation, emotional intelligence, and emotion-focused coping in the entrepreneurial context: A review and research agenda	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
Book review: A Research Agenda for Entrepreneurship Policy	10
Richness in diversity: Towards more contemporary research conceptualisations of women’s entrepreneurship	10
Revisiting the Entrepreneurial Society framework: A constructive critique from a climate change perspective	10
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
Are founder-CEOs resilient to crises? The impact of founder-CEO succession on new firm survival	9
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
On the consequences of firm growth	8