OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	80
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	47
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	38
Entrepreneurship as a journey of resistance: reimagining socio-cultural life in the periphery	37
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	35
Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda	32
Correction	30
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	28
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	24
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	24
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	24
A typology of the engaged university: an empirical investigation into how universities in Europe engage	23
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	22
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	21
In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand	21
A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach	21
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	20
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	20
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	19
Orientation towards environmental sustainability in European family versus nonfamily firms: the role of policymaker engagement and incentives	19
When may age not be a barrier to entrepreneurial entry of senior people? The role of individual geographical mobility experience and village democratic governance in rural areas in emerging economies	18
When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	18
‘Put heads together’: How engaging communities of inquiry propels innovation-driven entrepreneurship in emerging economies	18
Grow to last or grow to sell? Strategy making and narrative identity refocussing in business support programmes	18
Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation	16

The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship	15
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	15
The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management	14
German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed	14
The legitimacy of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystems: perceptions of supported entrepreneurs	13
Family firms motivations and commitment to achieving sustainable development goals: a research agenda	13
Microfinance and micropreneurship in rural South-East Nigeria: an exploration of the effects of institutions	13
Aiming for legitimacy but perpetuating clichés – Social evaluations of the entrepreneurial identity	13
Sustainable entrepreneurial behaviours of family members at the intersection of family firm, cooperative and rural community: a multilevel perspective	13
Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to ‘do’ entrepreneurship	13
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees	13
Blockchain and vulnerable entrepreneurial ecosystems	12
A battle of hearts and minds: social construction of founder identity in family business exit through a family drama	12
Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs	11
External corporate venturing in family firms: a behavioural perspective	11
When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	11
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and distinguishing features of effective policies – an evidence-based approach	11
Fiction and the entrepreneurial imagination	11
Understanding the entrepreneurial resilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case of Quechuas in Bolivia	11
Transforming enterprise education: sustainable pedagogies of hope and social justice	10
Shaping masculine entrepreneur identities through fictions	10
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	10
Entrepreneurial ecosystem typologies for entrepreneurial dynamism: a configurational theorizing	10
Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance	10
Technology transfer offices and the formation of academic spin-off entrepreneurial teams	10
A discourse of virtue: how poor women entrepreneurs justify their activities in the context of moderate Islam	9
Redefining boundaries: the case of women angel investors in a patriarchal context	9
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	9
‘They don’t waste money on women’: gendered entrepreneurial household dynamics and the total social organization of labour	9
Exploring SME’s behavioural changes resulting from innovation policy: the effect of receiving a subsidy on intrapreneurship	9
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	9
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	8
Failure’s virtues: the seeding of an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in a peripheral region	8
Family firm innovativeness: an investigation of family governance, commitment, and generation involvement	8
How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being	8
Clusters under pressure: the impact of a crisis in Italian industrial districts	8
Green human resource management in a family business setting: a fuzzy set approach	8
Navigating mission drift in social enterprises: the interplay of social entrepreneurs’ dual “business facet” and governance structure	8
The patriot-preneur – China’s strategic narrative of women entrepreneurs in Chinese media	8
Regional-level coopetition strategies and company performance: evidence from the Canadian wine industry	8
Board composition and corporate governance performance: investigating the effects of diversity	7
Examining the impact of poverty-related life stressors’ on persistence in entrepreneurship	7
Influenced by the lives of others: narratives of role modelling throughout the start-up process	7
Entrepreneurial quality in emerging economies: does communist legacy matter?	7
Causal Configurations of SME Strategic Renewal in Crisis: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Quebec Entrepreneurs amid COVID-19	7
How incubation creates value for early-stage entrepreneurs: the People-Place nexus	7
‘Adopting place’: how an entrepreneurial sense of belonging can help revitalise communities	7
Rethinking and reconceptualising entrepreneurship education a legacy from Alistair Anderson	7
Public support and firm performance: a systematic review and research agenda	6
Emancipatory entrepreneurship as the lifelong pursuit of Eigensinn	6

The effect of birth order on entrepreneurship: evidence from China	6
Entrepreneurship and embeddedness: process, context and theoretical foundations	6
Entrepreneurship as a pathway into and out of poverty: a configuration perspective	6
Exploring the construction of social capital within the student entrepreneurship sub-ecosystem	6
Curiosity and curious search in Entrepreneurship	6
The magical language of un-realistic venture ideas in social entrepreneurship	6
Of resistance to patriarchy and occupation through a virtual bazaar: an institutional theory critique of the emancipatory potential of Palestinian women’s digital entrepreneurship	6
Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks	6
How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens	6
Exploring interfirm collaboration processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises: an institutional logics perspective	6
Leveraging political skill in the entrepreneurial fundraising process	6
Believing in climate change: help or hindrance for entrepreneurs’ resilience?	6
Bending reality to your will: entrepreneurship through the lens of magical realism	6
Employment growth and profitability in European SMEs: the 100% speed limit	6
Chronic turmoil resilience, confrontation resilience, and their dark side: women entrepreneurs in Lebanon	6
Scaling the great wall: how women entrepreneurs in China overcome cultural barriers through digital affordances	6
‘Start with a bold statement’ – gendered displays of confidence in entrepreneurial pitching	6
The neurosocial alchemy of entrepreneurial transformation: a deep dive into extended mirror neuron system and neuroplasticity	5
Entrepreneuring in necessity contexts: effecting change among widow entrepreneurs in Northern Ghana	5
Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward	5
Bricolentrepreneuring : A comparative phenomenological study of Ukrainian refugees’ entrepreneurial bricolage practices in the UK and Romania	5
Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures	5
“I’d like to make a proper go of it but it’s really scary”: the perpetual liminality of informally self-employed women as stigmatized entrepreneurs	5
Changing places: the generative effects of community embeddedness in place	5
Empowering entrepreneurs: age, telework, and geographic context in transitioning to knowledge-based self-employment	5
Employee layoffs in times of crisis: do family firms differ?	5
The spatial interplay between productive and destructive entrepreneurship: do institutions meet expectations in rural areas?	5
Entrepreneurial resource construction through collective bricolage on Denmark’s renewable energy Island: an ethnographic study	5
Intersecting where? The multi-scalar contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs	5
Patriarchy repackaged: how a neoliberal economy and conservative gender norms shape entrepreneurial identities in Eastern Europe	4
Business incubation as a community of practice: an emergent cultural web	4
Tracking spatial distribution and regional characteristics of gazelles	4
Knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation influencing employee venturing behaviours at the national level: the moderating role of national entrepreneurial values	4
Learning to navigate the landscape of participation. On the initiation of students into practices of entrepreneurship (and) education	4
The impact of parental emotional support on the succession intentions of next-generation family business members	4
Fanning the flame - a process-relational view on creative hub practices for rural development	4
Entrepreneurs’ self-efficacy and business opportunity identification during COVID-19: the moderating role of social media interactions	4
Towards an ethical awareness of entrepreneurs: a Nietzschean perspective on creative destruction	4
Harnessing the silver tsunami: an investigation into the benefits and challenges of senior entrepreneurship in Singapore	4
Socialist imprints and innovation strategies in a transition economy	4
Contextual understanding of care ethics in social entrepreneurship	4
Homogenization processes in entrepreneurship education: the case of Junior Achievement	3
Strategic agencement: how sustainable entrepreneurs address the dual liabilities of newness and otherness	3
Entrepreneuring as emancipation in family business succession: a story of agony and ecstasy	3
“As if it were home”: an exploratory study of the role of homesickness among migrant entrepreneurs	3
Community enterprise, community entrepreneurship and local development: a literature review on three decades of empirical studies and theorizations	3
Co-creating value in entrepreneurship: an exploratory study of Lebanese women	3
Theorizing Disembedding and Re-Embedding: Resource Mobilization in Refugee Entrepreneurship	3
A performative perspective on sensing, seizing, and transforming in small- and medium-sized enterprises	3
The interconnected influences of institutional and social embeddedness on processes of social innovation: A Polanyian perspective	3
Female gender interests and education in women entrepreneurs’ definition of success in Uganda	3
Neruda through copper-coloured glasses: the role of place attachment in the embeddedness of Chilean entrepreneurship	3
How do entrepreneurial ecosystem promotes entrepreneurship in non-core regions? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis based on western China	3
Correction	3
Indigenous Entrepreneurship. Current issues and future lines	3
How local geography shapes firm geography	3
An Entrepreneurship-as-practice perspective of next-generation becoming family businesses successors: the role of discursive artefacts	3
Creating community: the process of entrepreneurial community building for civic wealth creation	3
Neuroentrepreneurship: an integrative review and research agenda	3
Does location matter? Unpacking the dynamic relationship between the spatial context and embeddedness in women’s entrepreneurship	3