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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Entrepreneurial hustle: Scale development and validation	155
Social entrepreneurs concerned about Impact Drift. Evidence from contexts of persistent and pervasive need	124
Star entrepreneurs on digital platforms: Heavy-tailed performance distributions and their generative mechanisms	113
Fear the loss or welcome the gains? How stock options influence CEO risk-taking in corporate cleantech investments	101
Impact creation approaches of community-based enterprises: A configurational analysis of enabling conditions	84
Venture distress and problemistic search among entrepreneurs in Brazilian favelas	82
Editorial Board	78
Editorial Board	68
Hype: Marker and maker of entrepreneurial culture	61
Trouble brewing: Craft ventures during market disruption	59
A personal adversity model of justifying the costs of entrepreneurial action: The case of oil thieves in the Niger DELTA	55
Financing sustainable entrepreneurship: ESG measurement, valuation, and performance	55
Momentum for entrepreneurial internationalization: Friction at the interface between international and domestic institutions	53
Advancing societal grand challenge research at the interface of entrepreneurship and international business: A review and research agenda	53
Editorial Board	50
Are entrepreneurs more upwardly mobile?	48
Outside board director experience and the growth of new ventures	48
Editorial Board	46
Calling Baumol: What telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes	46
Editorial Board	45
Co-creation in effectuation processes: A stakeholder perspective on commitment reasoning	44
Non-probabilistic reasoning in navigating entrepreneurial uncertainty: A psychology of religious faith lens	41
The potentials and perils of prosocial power: Transnational social entrepreneurship dynamics in vulnerable places	41
From platform growth to platform scaling: The role of decision rules and network effects over time	40
Legitimacy perceptions amid institutional pluralism: How hype over decoupled practices influences entrepreneurial ventures	37

Investing in yourself by investing in the field: The long-term benefits of reviewing	35
Quasipractice: How the entrepreneurship educator develops entrepreneurial practice expertise	34
Organizational scaling, scalability, and scale-up: Definitional harmonization and a research agenda	34
Network to passion or passion to network? Disentangling entrepreneurial passion selection and contagion effects among peers and teams in a startup accelerator	34
Editorial Board	33
Emancipatory entrepreneurship in postcolonial economies: The clash of institutional systems in the Kejetia marketplace	33
Financing decentralized digital platform growth: The role of crypto funds in blockchain-based startups	32
What is scaling?	30
A temporal typology of entrepreneurial opportunities: Implications for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action	30
Not so silent partners: Exploring the interconnected roles of entrepreneurs and their spouses	30
From cultural entrepreneurship to economic entrepreneurship in cultural industries: The role of digital serialization	30
Parental divorce in early life and entrepreneurial performance in adulthood	29
Social entrepreneurship and intersectionality: Mitigating extreme exclusion	29
“I can't get it out of my mind” - Why, how, and when crisis rumination leads entrepreneurs to act and pivot during crises	29
Radical innovation in (multi)family owned firms	29
The effects of firm-specific incentives (stock options) on mobility and employee entrepreneurship	28
Editorial Board	27
Navigating the temporal commitments of entrepreneurial hype: Insights from entrepreneur and backer interactions in crowdfunded ventures	27
Effect of venture capital investment horizon on new product development: Evidence from the medical device sector	27
Editorial Board	26
Legitimate incongruity: Strategic positioning within hybrid categories	26
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	25
Referrals among VCs and the length of due diligence: The effect of relational embeddedness	24
Old but gold? Examining the effect of age bias in reward-based crowdfunding	23
Align or perish: Social enterprise network orchestration in Sub-Saharan Africa	23
Editorial Board	23
Navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurial identity threats to persist: The countervailing force of a relational identity with God	23
Technology ventures' engagement of external actors in the search for viable market applications: On the relevance of Technology Broadcasting and Systematic Validation	22
The role of prototype fidelity in technology crowdfunding	22
Scalability, venture capital availability, and unicorns: Evidence from the valuation and timing of IPOs	22
Waves and rips: Abalone, entrepreneurial variants, and community functioning	22
Work hard or play hard: the effect of leisure crafting on opportunity recognition and venture performance	22
Editorial Board	21
Para-social mentoring: The effects of entrepreneurship influencers on entrepreneurs	21
Rags to riches? Entrepreneurs' social classes, resourceful time allocation, and venture performance	21
Editorial Board	21
Empathy-driven entrepreneurial action: Well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs and target beneficiaries	21
Peer effects on passion levels, passion trajectories, and outcomes for individuals and teams	20
Overconfidence and entrepreneurship: A meta-analysis of different types of overconfidence in the entrepreneurial process	20
Early-stage business model experimentation and pivoting	20
From distinctiveness to optimal distinctiveness: External endorsements, innovativeness and new venture funding	19
Big things from small beginnings: Creating and scaling community-based opportunities for sustainable small and local businesses	19
False signaling by platform team members and post-campaign venture outcomes: Evidence from an equity crowdfunding platform	19
The entrepreneurship fountain of youth: Younger management ranks generate more entrepreneurs	18
When do spinouts benefit from market overlap with parent firms?	17
Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian communities	17
ESG and crowdfunding platforms	16
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	16
Stakeholder identification as entrepreneurial action: The social process of stakeholder enrollment in new venture emergence	16

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