Journal of Business Venturing

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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board149
Fear the loss or welcome the gains? How stock options influence CEO risk-taking in corporate cleantech investments142
Editorial Board142
Impact creation approaches of community-based enterprises: A configurational analysis of enabling conditions102
Star entrepreneurs on digital platforms: Heavy-tailed performance distributions and their generative mechanisms100
Venture distress and problemistic search among entrepreneurs in Brazilian favelas93
Social entrepreneurs concerned about Impact Drift. Evidence from contexts of persistent and pervasive need83
Entrepreneurial hustle: Scale development and validation77
Configurations for corporate venture innovation: Investigating the role of the dominant coalition76
Hype: Marker and maker of entrepreneurial culture72
Editorial Board71
Editorial Board70
Momentum for entrepreneurial internationalization: Friction at the interface between international and domestic institutions64
Advancing societal grand challenge research at the interface of entrepreneurship and international business: A review and research agenda57
Trouble brewing: Craft ventures during market disruption57
Financing sustainable entrepreneurship: ESG measurement, valuation, and performance54
A personal adversity model of justifying the costs of entrepreneurial action: The case of oil thieves in the Niger DELTA52
Editorial Board50
Editorial Board49
Outside board director experience and the growth of new ventures48
From platform growth to platform scaling: The role of decision rules and network effects over time47
Managing negative emotions from entrepreneurial project failure: When and how does supportive leadership help employees?46
Calling Baumol: What telephones can tell us about the allocation of entrepreneurial talent in the face of radical institutional changes45
Network to passion or passion to network? Disentangling entrepreneurial passion selection and contagion effects among peers and teams in a startup accelerator44
Non-probabilistic reasoning in navigating entrepreneurial uncertainty: A psychology of religious faith lens43
Are entrepreneurs more upwardly mobile?43
Organizational scaling, scalability, and scale-up: Definitional harmonization and a research agenda43
The potentials and perils of prosocial power: Transnational social entrepreneurship dynamics in vulnerable places43
Legitimacy perceptions amid institutional pluralism: How hype over decoupled practices influences entrepreneurial ventures40
Co-creation in effectuation processes: A stakeholder perspective on commitment reasoning39
Investing in yourself by investing in the field: The long-term benefits of reviewing39
Quasipractice: How the entrepreneurship educator develops entrepreneurial practice expertise35
A temporal typology of entrepreneurial opportunities: Implications for the optimal timing of entrepreneurial action35
Emancipatory entrepreneurship in postcolonial economies: The clash of institutional systems in the Kejetia marketplace35
Financing decentralized digital platform growth: The role of crypto funds in blockchain-based startups34
What is scaling?33
Not so silent partners: Exploring the interconnected roles of entrepreneurs and their spouses32
From cultural entrepreneurship to economic entrepreneurship in cultural industries: The role of digital serialization32
“I can't get it out of my mind” - Why, how, and when crisis rumination leads entrepreneurs to act and pivot during crises31
Social entrepreneurship and intersectionality: Mitigating extreme exclusion31
Parental divorce in early life and entrepreneurial performance in adulthood31
Radical innovation in (multi)family owned firms30
Navigating the temporal commitments of entrepreneurial hype: Insights from entrepreneur and backer interactions in crowdfunded ventures30
The effects of firm-specific incentives (stock options) on mobility and employee entrepreneurship29
Editorial Board29
Editorial Board29
Referrals among VCs and the length of due diligence: The effect of relational embeddedness28
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. Ventu28
Effect of venture capital investment horizon on new product development: Evidence from the medical device sector28
Legitimate incongruity: Strategic positioning within hybrid categories27
Align or perish: Social enterprise network orchestration in Sub-Saharan Africa27
Navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurial identity threats to persist: The countervailing force of a relational identity with God27
Rags to riches? Entrepreneurs' social classes, resourceful time allocation, and venture performance26
Editorial Board26
Old but gold? Examining the effect of age bias in reward-based crowdfunding24
Technology ventures' engagement of external actors in the search for viable market applications: On the relevance of Technology Broadcasting and Systematic Validation24
Scalability, venture capital availability, and unicorns: Evidence from the valuation and timing of IPOs24
Work hard or play hard: the effect of leisure crafting on opportunity recognition and venture performance23
Waves and rips: Abalone, entrepreneurial variants, and community functioning22
The role of prototype fidelity in technology crowdfunding22
Editorial Board22
Para-social mentoring: The effects of entrepreneurship influencers on entrepreneurs22
Empathy-driven entrepreneurial action: Well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs and target beneficiaries21
Editorial Board21
Big things from small beginnings: Creating and scaling community-based opportunities for sustainable small and local businesses20
Peer effects on passion levels, passion trajectories, and outcomes for individuals and teams20
Overconfidence and entrepreneurship: A meta-analysis of different types of overconfidence in the entrepreneurial process20
False signaling by platform team members and post-campaign venture outcomes: Evidence from an equity crowdfunding platform19
When do spinouts benefit from market overlap with parent firms?19
Crime, community social capital and entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australian communities19
The entrepreneurship fountain of youth: Younger management ranks generate more entrepreneurs19
From distinctiveness to optimal distinctiveness: External endorsements, innovativeness and new venture funding19
Early-stage business model experimentation and pivoting18
Editorial Board18
Stakeholder identification as entrepreneurial action: The social process of stakeholder enrollment in new venture emergence18
ESG and crowdfunding platforms18
Editorial Board17
Editorial Board17
Editorial Board17
Journal of business venturing 2023 year in review: The year of the whole-person entrepreneur16
Toward a theological turn in entrepreneurship: How religion could enable transformative research in our field16
Visual totality of rewards-based crowdfunding pitch videos: Disentangling the impact of peak negative affective visual expression on funding outcomes15
Flip the tweet – the two-sided coin of entrepreneurial empathy and its ambiguous influence on new product development15
The expectations game: The contingent value of hype as a rhetorical strategy in resource mobilization processes among AI startups15
Aging and entrepreneurs' emotional exhaustion: The role of entrepreneurial strategy, psychological capital, and felt age gap15
A chip off the old block: Founders' prior experience and the geographic diversification of export sales in international new ventures15
Regulatory institutions and cross-country differences in high-growth entrepreneurship rates: A configurational approach15
Staying poor: Unpacking the process of barefoot institutional entrepreneurship failure14
Atypical entrepreneurs in the venture idea elaboration phase14
Innovation at the interface: A configurational approach to corporate venture capital14
Angel funding and entrepreneurs' well-being: The mediating role of autonomy, competence, and relatedness14
(S)training experiences: Toward understanding decreases in entrepreneurial self-efficacy during action-oriented entrepreneurship training14
Timing is everything? Curvilinear effects of age at entry on new firm growth and survival and the moderating effect of IPO performance14
To profit or not to profit: Founder identity at the intersection of religion and entrepreneurship14
Sowing the seeds of failure: Organizational identity dynamics in new venture pivoting14
The body as a cultural resource for entrepreneurs in stigmatized settings: The case of sex toys by women for women14
Entrepreneurs' stressors and well-being: A recovery perspective and diary study13
Childhood adversities: Mixed blessings for entrepreneurial entry13
Ecological rationality and entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs fit decision logics to decision content and structure13
Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media12
Editorial Board12
Labor market reform as an external enabler of high-growth entrepreneurship: A multi-level institutional contingency perspective12
Do I have a big ego? Angel investors' narcissism and investment behaviors12
The entrepreneur identity assimilation process: It's not all work and no play11
Balancing power: The role of independent directors on venture boards11
Progress toward understanding tensions in corporate venture capital: A systematic review11
Now is the time: The effects of linguistic time reference and national time orientation on innovative new ventures11
Breaking barriers or maintaining status quo? Female representation in decision-making group of venture capital firms and the funding of woman-led businesses11
Writing bold, broad, and rigorous review articles in entrepreneurship10
A holistic approach to the evolution of an entrepreneurial ecosystem: An exploratory study of academic spin-offs10
Can you hear me now? Engendering passion and preparedness perceptions with vocal expressions in crowdfunding pitches10
No politics in funding pitches: An expectancy violations theory perspective of entrepreneurs' political expressions in crowdfunding10
Trust, fast and slow: A comparison study of the trust behaviors of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs10
Discipline, abjection, and poverty alleviation through entrepreneurship: A constitutive perspective10
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 resilience9
Categorically right? How firm-level distinctiveness affects performance across product categories9
Progress without a venture? Individual benefits of post-disruption entrepreneuring9
Ventures' conscious knowledge transfer to close partners, and beyond: A framework of performance, complementarity, knowledge disclosure, and knowledge broadcasting9
The value of a reputation for sustaining commitment in interfirm relationships: The inclusion of corporate venture capitalists in investment syndicates9
When sergeants can outrank generals: Person-organization fit and the performance of franchisees as agents of their franchisor9
The good, the bad and the uncertain: Employers' perceptions of former entrepreneurs9
Owner-management, board governance and responses to performance feedback in private firms9
The challenges of supporting necessity entrepreneurs: Understanding loan officer exit in microfinance9
Legitimately distinct entrepreneurial stories in evolving market categories9
When the beacon goes dark: Legitimacy repair work by subsequent actors in an emerging market category9
Venture Idea Assessment (VIA): Development of a needed concept, measure, and research agenda9
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