OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Business Venturing is 9. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	141
Editorial Board	140
Fear the loss or welcome the gains? How stock options influence CEO risk-taking in corporate cleantech investments	139
Impact creation approaches of community-based enterprises: A configurational analysis of enabling conditions	93
Venture distress and problemistic search among entrepreneurs in Brazilian favelas	91
Entrepreneurial hustle: Scale development and validation	88
Hype: Marker and maker of entrepreneurial culture	74
Star entrepreneurs on digital platforms: Heavy-tailed performance distributions and their generative mechanisms	72
Configurations for corporate venture innovation: Investigating the role of the dominant coalition	70
Social entrepreneurs concerned about Impact Drift. Evidence from contexts of persistent and pervasive need	70
Editorial Board	70
Editorial Board	65
Momentum for entrepreneurial internationalization: Friction at the interface between international and domestic institutions	61
Trouble brewing: Craft ventures during market disruption	57
A personal adversity model of justifying the costs of entrepreneurial action: The case of oil thieves in the Niger DELTA	54
Advancing societal grand challenge research at the interface of entrepreneurship and international business: A review and research agenda	52
Financing sustainable entrepreneurship: ESG measurement, valuation, and performance	51
Editorial Board	48
Legitimacy perceptions amid institutional pluralism: How hype over decoupled practices influences entrepreneurial ventures	45
The potentials and perils of prosocial power: Transnational social entrepreneurship dynamics in vulnerable places	45
Editorial Board	45
Investing in yourself by investing in the field: The long-term benefits of reviewing	44
Network to passion or passion to network? Disentangling entrepreneurial passion selection and contagion effects among peers and teams in a startup accelerator	44
Co-creation in effectuation processes: A stakeholder perspective on commitment reasoning	43
From platform growth to platform scaling: The role of decision rules and network effects over time	42

Are entrepreneurs more upwardly mobile?	42
Outside board director experience and the growth of new ventures	42
Managing negative emotions from entrepreneurial project failure: When and how does supportive leadership help employees?	41
Organizational scaling, scalability, and scale-up: Definitional harmonization and a research agenda	39
Non-probabilistic reasoning in navigating entrepreneurial uncertainty: A psychology of religious faith lens	37
Calling Baumol: What telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes	37
Quasipractice: How the entrepreneurship educator develops entrepreneurial practice expertise	35
Not so silent partners: Exploring the interconnected roles of entrepreneurs and their spouses	35
Emancipatory entrepreneurship in postcolonial economies: The clash of institutional systems in the Kejetia marketplace	34
From cultural entrepreneurship to economic entrepreneurship in cultural industries: The role of digital serialization	32
Financing decentralized digital platform growth: The role of crypto funds in blockchain-based startups	31
A temporal typology of entrepreneurial opportunities: Implications for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action	31
Social entrepreneurship and intersectionality: Mitigating extreme exclusion	30
Parental divorce in early life and entrepreneurial performance in adulthood	30
What is scaling?	30
The effects of firm-specific incentives (stock options) on mobility and employee entrepreneurship	30
Navigating the temporal commitments of entrepreneurial hype: Insights from entrepreneur and backer interactions in crowdfunded ventures	29
Radical innovation in (multi)family owned firms	29
“I can't get it out of my mind” - Why, how, and when crisis rumination leads entrepreneurs to act and pivot during crises	28
Editorial Board	28
Effect of venture capital investment horizon on new product development: Evidence from the medical device sector	28
Editorial Board	28
Navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurial identity threats to persist: The countervailing force of a relational identity with God	27
Legitimate incongruity: Strategic positioning within hybrid categories	27
Referrals among VCs and the length of due diligence: The effect of relational embeddedness	27
Corrigendum to “Perceived social undermining keeps entrepreneurs up at night and disengaged the next day: The mediating role of sleep quality and the buffering role of trait resilience” [J. Bus. Ventu	27
Editorial Board	26
Align or perish: Social enterprise network orchestration in Sub-Saharan Africa	26
The role of prototype fidelity in technology crowdfunding	26
Technology ventures' engagement of external actors in the search for viable market applications: On the relevance of Technology Broadcasting and Systematic Validation	24
Work hard or play hard: the effect of leisure crafting on opportunity recognition and venture performance	23
Waves and rips: Abalone, entrepreneurial variants, and community functioning	22
Rags to riches? Entrepreneurs' social classes, resourceful time allocation, and venture performance	22
Old but gold? Examining the effect of age bias in reward-based crowdfunding	22
Scalability, venture capital availability, and unicorns: Evidence from the valuation and timing of IPOs	21
Peer effects on passion levels, passion trajectories, and outcomes for individuals and teams	20
Empathy-driven entrepreneurial action: Well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs and target beneficiaries	20
When do spinouts benefit from market overlap with parent firms?	20
Para-social mentoring: The effects of entrepreneurship influencers on entrepreneurs	20
Editorial Board	20
The entrepreneurship fountain of youth: Younger management ranks generate more entrepreneurs	20
Overconfidence and entrepreneurship: A meta-analysis of different types of overconfidence in the entrepreneurial process	20
Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian communities	19
Stakeholder identification as entrepreneurial action: The social process of stakeholder enrollment in new venture emergence	18
Early-stage business model experimentation and pivoting	18
False signaling by platform team members and post-campaign venture outcomes: Evidence from an equity crowdfunding platform	18
ESG and crowdfunding platforms	18
Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	17

From distinctiveness to optimal distinctiveness: External endorsements, innovativeness and new venture funding	17
Editorial Board	17
Journal of business venturing 2023 year in review: The year of the whole-person entrepreneur	16
Toward a theological turn in entrepreneurship: How religion could enable transformative research in our field	16
Flip the tweet – the two-sided coin of entrepreneurial empathy and its ambiguous influence on new product development	15
Staying poor: Unpacking the process of barefoot institutional entrepreneurship failure	15
The expectations game: The contingent value of hype as a rhetorical strategy in resource mobilization processes among AI startups	15
Regulatory institutions and cross-country differences in high-growth entrepreneurship rates: A configurational approach	15
Visual totality of rewards-based crowdfunding pitch videos: Disentangling the impact of peak negative affective visual expression on funding outcomes	15
A chip off the old block: Founders' prior experience and the geographic diversification of export sales in international new ventures	15
Innovation at the interface: A configurational approach to corporate venture capital	15
Sowing the seeds of failure: Organizational identity dynamics in new venture pivoting	14
To profit or not to profit: Founder identity at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship	14
Aging and entrepreneurs' emotional exhaustion: The role of entrepreneurial strategy, psychological capital, and felt age gap	14
(S)training experiences: Toward understanding decreases in entrepreneurial self-efficacy during action-oriented entrepreneurship training	13
The body as a cultural resource for entrepreneurs in stigmatized settings: The case of sex toys by women for women	13
Ecological rationality and entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs fit decision logics to decision content and structure	13
Angel funding and entrepreneurs' well-being: The mediating role of autonomy, competence, and relatedness	13
Timing is everything? Curvilinear effects of age at entry on new firm growth and survival and the moderating effect of IPO performance	13
Atypical entrepreneurs in the venture idea elaboration phase	13
Writing bold, broad, and rigorous review articles in entrepreneurship	12
Do I have a big ego? Angel investors' narcissism and investment behaviors	12
Childhood adversities: Mixed blessings for entrepreneurial entry	12
Entrepreneurs' stressors and well-being: A recovery perspective and diary study	12
Editorial Board	12
Now is the time: The effects of linguistic time reference and national time orientation on innovative new ventures	11
Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media	11
Progress toward understanding tensions in corporate venture capital: A systematic review	11
Balancing power: The role of independent directors on venture boards	11
The entrepreneur identity assimilation process: It's not all work and no play	11
Labor market reform as an external enabler of high-growth entrepreneurship: A multi-level institutional contingency perspective	11
A holistic approach to the evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: An exploratory study of academic spin-offs	10
Breaking barriers or maintaining status quo? Female representation in decision-making group of venture capital firms and the funding of woman-led businesses	10
Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: A constitutive perspective	10
No politics in funding pitches: An expectancy violations theory perspective of entrepreneurs' political expressions in crowdfunding	10
Categorically right? How firm-level distinctiveness affects performance across product categories	9
Trust, fast and slow: A comparison study of the trust behaviors of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs	9
Legitimately distinct entrepreneurial stories in evolving market categories	9
Can you hear me now? Engendering passion and preparedness perceptions with vocal expressions in crowdfunding pitches	9
When sergeants can outrank generals: Person-organization fit and the performance of franchisees as agents of their franchisor	9
The challenges of supporting necessity entrepreneurs: Understanding loan officer exit in microfinance	9
The value of a reputation for sustaining commitment in interfirm relationships: The inclusion of corporate venture capitalists in investment syndicates	9
Progress without a venture? Individual benefits of post-disruption entrepreneuring	9
The good, the bad and the uncertain: Employers' perceptions of former entrepreneurs	9