OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	62
Entrepreneurship as a journey of resistance: reimagining socio-cultural life in the periphery	51
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	47
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	39
From deficit narratives to ambidextrous embeddedness: how high-tech ventures navigate and transform hyperdynamic contexts in sub-Saharan Africa	37
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	36
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	34
Strength in numbers? An investigation of the relationship between ethnic minority population and ethnic minority-owned business outcomes	30
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	30
Correction	29
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	29
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	28
A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach	26
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	26
A typology of the engaged university: an empirical investigation into how universities in Europe engage	23
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	23
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	23
From emergence to maturity: contextually embedded resource mobilization in social enterprises	21
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	21
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	21
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	21
Orientation towards environmental sustainability in European family versus nonfamily firms: the role of policymaker engagement and incentives	21
In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand	21
Grow to last or grow to sell? Strategy making and narrative identity refocussing in business support programmes	19
Gender inclusion/exclusion in business incubators and accelerators: a critical discourse analysis of websites	19

Beyond additivity: a Configurational Theory of university-ecosystem alignment for founder creation	19
When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	18
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
‘Put heads together’: How engaging communities of inquiry propels innovation-driven entrepreneurship in emerging economies	18
Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation	18
Early-stage refugee entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial dispositions, institutions and readiness	17
A micro-level study of agricultural family-managed firms: the role of age in the management of family social capital	17
German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed	17
Turning waste into opportunity: collective effectuation and place-based circular innovation	17
Refugee entrepreneurship within and beyond refugee camps: constrained and adaptive resourcefulness	16
The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management	15
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	15
An exploration of how Moroccan ethnic minority women navigate and negotiate their entrepreneurial identity in the Netherlands: a postfeminist analysis	15
The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship	15
A battle of hearts and minds: social construction of founder identity in family business exit through a family drama	15
Blockchain and vulnerable entrepreneurial ecosystems	14
Family firms motivations and commitment to achieving sustainable development goals: a research agenda	14
Aiming for legitimacy but perpetuating clichés – Social evaluations of the entrepreneurial identity	14
Sustainable entrepreneurial behaviours of family members at the intersection of family firm, cooperative and rural community: a multilevel perspective	13
Constructing the identity of the religious entrepreneur: a master narrative approach	13
Microfinance and micropreneurship in rural South-East Nigeria: an exploration of the effects of institutions	13
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees	13
Influence of active ageing capacities on the prevalence of senior entrepreneurship	13
Structure and dynamics of a precarious entrepreneurial sub-ecosystem in a developed country	12
Crafting social entrepreneuring: intra-sectional possibilities in responding to GBV	12
When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	12
Beyond simple embeddedness: probing entrepreneurs’ strategic religious engagement	12
Navigating international entrepreneurship while impacting regional development in the digital age	12
Fiction and the entrepreneurial imagination	12
External corporate venturing in family firms: a behavioural perspective	12
The legitimacy of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystems: perceptions of supported entrepreneurs	12
Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance	11
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	11
Strategic decisions in family firms: a situated gamble perspective	11
Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs	11
Shaping masculine entrepreneur identities through fictions	11
Understanding the entrepreneurial resilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case of Quechuas in Bolivia	11
Exploring SME’s behavioural changes resulting from innovation policy: the effect of receiving a subsidy on intrapreneurship	10
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	10
Gradually changing society: women entrepreneurs and institutional change in Saudi Arabia	10
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	10
Entrepreneurialism: conceptual exploration of an ideology	10
Entrepreneurial ecosystem typologies for entrepreneurial dynamism: a configurational theorizing	10
Failure’s virtues: the seeding of an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in a peripheral region	10
Technology transfer offices and the formation of academic spin-off entrepreneurial teams	10
Understanding Hindu religious entrepreneurship: a translation perspective	10
‘They don’t waste money on women’: gendered entrepreneurial household dynamics and the total social organization of labour	10
Navigating mission drift in social enterprises: the interplay of social entrepreneurs’ dual “business facet” and governance structure	9
How incubation creates value for early-stage entrepreneurs: the People-Place nexus	9
Decoding the corporate venture capital lifecycle: a systematic review and research agenda	9

The role of religious beliefs in productive entrepreneurship and personal social responsibility: insights from a non-WEIRD nation	9
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	9
Entrepreneurial quality in emerging economies: does communist legacy matter?	9
How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being	9
Damsels in distress or the queens of change? Exploring the sustainable development contributions of women entrepreneurs in poverty contexts	9
Board composition and corporate governance performance: investigating the effects of diversity	9
The impact of national culture on homophily in immigrant founding teams	9
Influenced by the lives of others: narratives of role modelling throughout the start-up process	8
Clusters under pressure: the impact of a crisis in Italian industrial districts	8
Regional-level coopetition strategies and company performance: evidence from the Canadian wine industry	8
The patriot-preneur – China’s strategic narrative of women entrepreneurs in Chinese media	8
Green human resource management in a family business setting: a fuzzy set approach	8
Family firm innovativeness: an investigation of family governance, commitment, and generation involvement	8
Examining the impact of poverty-related life stressors’ on persistence in entrepreneurship	8
Holding up the sky together? Family support dynamics and gender in entrepreneurship in China	7
The importance of being exasperated. How and why expressions of anger impact everyday entrepreneurial journeys: a sociology of emotions perspective	7
Causal Configurations of SME Strategic Renewal in Crisis: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Quebec Entrepreneurs amid COVID-19	7
On one’s own two feet: self-employment, poverty, and the importance of religion in South Africa	7
Using brand identity as resources to address grand challenge: entrepreneurial alertness and inspiration	7
Exploring interfirm collaboration processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises: an institutional logics perspective	7
Religious entrepreneurship: advancing a distinctive domain	7
Worldview matters: exploring the interplay between Indigenous worldviews and entrepreneurial journeys – storytelling from Chile’s Mapuche	7
Gender inclusive entrepreneurship education and training: challenges and indicators	6
Scaling the great wall: how women entrepreneurs in China overcome cultural barriers through digital affordances	6
Public support and firm performance: a systematic review and research agenda	6
Agroecological entrepreneurship: a driving force in the sustainable transformation of agri-food systems	6
The magical language of un-realistic venture ideas in social entrepreneurship	6
Leveraging political skill in the entrepreneurial fundraising process	6
Entrepreneurial leadership and green product development for grand challenges: the roles of strategic sensitivity, collaborative innovation capability and political skill	6
Curiosity and curious search in Entrepreneurship	6
‘Start with a bold statement’ – gendered displays of confidence in entrepreneurial pitching	5
Standards for re-innovation in innovation-enabling business models of high-tech SMEs: a conceptual model of a capability-based view	5
From believer to entrepreneur: the mediating role of eudaimonic well-being	5
Religious congregation social entrepreneurship in sacred church buildings	5
Exploring the construction of social capital within the student entrepreneurship sub-ecosystem	5
Of resistance to patriarchy and occupation through a virtual bazaar: an institutional theory critique of the emancipatory potential of Palestinian women’s digital entrepreneurship	5
Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks	5
Chronic turmoil resilience, confrontation resilience, and their dark side: women entrepreneurs in Lebanon	5
Employment growth and profitability in European SMEs: the 100% speed limit	5
Tradition and organizational identity in religious entrepreneurship	5
Emancipatory entrepreneurship as the lifelong pursuit of Eigensinn	5
Believing in climate change: help or hindrance for entrepreneurs’ resilience?	5
Bending reality to your will: entrepreneurship through the lens of magical realism	5
Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures	5
Does religion in the home country matter for new venture internationalization? A cross-country analysis	5
Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward	5
Crisis perceptions among Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs: Psychological antecedents and venture progress	5
Employee layoffs in times of crisis: do family firms differ?	4
Enhancing product innovativeness in SMEs: the role of owners’ bonding social capital, owners’ bridging behaviours and mobilized social capital	4
How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens	4
Patriarchy repackaged: how a neoliberal economy and conservative gender norms shape entrepreneurial identities in Eastern Europe	4
Socialist imprints and innovation strategies in a transition economy	4
Crafting resilience: reframing firm growth for artisan food entrepreneurs at farmers’ markets	4
Acculturation dynamics and entrepreneurial pathways for community development: a comparative analysis of immigrant and native entrepreneurs in Greece	4
Towards an ethical awareness of entrepreneurs: a Nietzschean perspective on creative destruction	4
Entrepreneuring in necessity contexts: effecting change among widow entrepreneurs in Northern Ghana	4
The spatial interplay between productive and destructive entrepreneurship: do institutions meet expectations in rural areas?	4
Business incubation as a community of practice: an emergent cultural web	4
Knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation influencing employee venturing behaviours at the national level: the moderating role of national entrepreneurial values	4
Harnessing the silver tsunami: an investigation into the benefits and challenges of senior entrepreneurship in Singapore	4
Empowering entrepreneurs: age, telework, and geographic context in transitioning to knowledge-based self-employment	4
The impact of parental emotional support on the succession intentions of next-generation family business members	4
Learning to navigate the landscape of participation. On the initiation of students into practices of entrepreneurship (and) education	4
“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	4
Intersecting where? The multi-scalar contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs	4
The neurosocial alchemy of entrepreneurial transformation: a deep dive into extended mirror neuron system and neuroplasticity	4
Bricolentrepreneuring : A comparative phenomenological study of Ukrainian refugees’ entrepreneurial bricolage practices in the UK and Romania	4
Tracking spatial distribution and regional characteristics of gazelles	4
Summons from the past: spiritual calling in Indigenous entrepreneurship	4
Fanning the flame - a process-relational view on creative hub practices for rural development	4