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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	103
Correction	56
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	50
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	47
Entrepreneurship as a journey of resistance: reimagining socio-cultural life in the periphery	43
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	42
Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda	39
Correction	36
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	34
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	29
Strength in numbers? An investigation of the relationship between ethnic minority population and ethnic minority-owned business outcomes	29
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	29
In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand	28
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	28
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	28
A typology of the engaged university: an empirical investigation into how universities in Europe engage	27
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	26
A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach	26
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	26
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	23
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	22
Beyond additivity: a Configurational Theory of university-ecosystem alignment for founder creation	22
Orientation towards environmental sustainability in European family versus nonfamily firms: the role of policymaker engagement and incentives	22
Grow to last or grow to sell? Strategy making and narrative identity refocussing in business support programmes	21
When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	21

‘Put heads together’: How engaging communities of inquiry propels innovation-driven entrepreneurship in emerging economies	20
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	19
Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation	19
The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship	19
A micro-level study of agricultural family-managed firms: the role of age in the management of family social capital	19
German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed	18
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	18
Refugee entrepreneurship within and beyond refugee camps: constrained and adaptive resourcefulness	18
A battle of hearts and minds: social construction of founder identity in family business exit through a family drama	17
Sustainable entrepreneurial behaviours of family members at the intersection of family firm, cooperative and rural community: a multilevel perspective	17
The legitimacy of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystems: perceptions of supported entrepreneurs	17
Blockchain and vulnerable entrepreneurial ecosystems	17
Aiming for legitimacy but perpetuating clichés – Social evaluations of the entrepreneurial identity	17
Family firms motivations and commitment to achieving sustainable development goals: a research agenda	17
The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management	17
Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to ‘do’ entrepreneurship	17
Microfinance and micropreneurship in rural South-East Nigeria: an exploration of the effects of institutions	16
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees	16
Fiction and the entrepreneurial imagination	14
When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	13
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	13
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and distinguishing features of effective policies – an evidence-based approach	13
Shaping masculine entrepreneur identities through fictions	13
External corporate venturing in family firms: a behavioural perspective	13
Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs	13
Understanding the entrepreneurial resilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case of Quechuas in Bolivia	13
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	12
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	12
Technology transfer offices and the formation of academic spin-off entrepreneurial teams	12
Strategic decisions in family firms: a situated gamble perspective	12
Entrepreneurial ecosystem typologies for entrepreneurial dynamism: a configurational theorizing	12
Exploring SME’s behavioural changes resulting from innovation policy: the effect of receiving a subsidy on intrapreneurship	12
Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance	12
Entrepreneurialism: conceptual exploration of an ideology	11
Navigating mission drift in social enterprises: the interplay of social entrepreneurs’ dual “business facet” and governance structure	10
Failure’s virtues: the seeding of an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in a peripheral region	10
The role of religious beliefs in productive entrepreneurship and personal social responsibility: insights from a non-WEIRD nation	10
A discourse of virtue: how poor women entrepreneurs justify their activities in the context of moderate Islam	10
Redefining boundaries: the case of women angel investors in a patriarchal context	10
How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being	10
Transforming enterprise education: sustainable pedagogies of hope and social justice	10
Regional-level coopetition strategies and company performance: evidence from the Canadian wine industry	9
Clusters under pressure: the impact of a crisis in Italian industrial districts	9
Gradually changing society: women entrepreneurs and institutional change in Saudi Arabia	9
How incubation creates value for early-stage entrepreneurs: the People-Place nexus	9
Board composition and corporate governance performance: investigating the effects of diversity	9
Green human resource management in a family business setting: a fuzzy set approach	9
Entrepreneurial quality in emerging economies: does communist legacy matter?	9
Influenced by the lives of others: narratives of role modelling throughout the start-up process	9
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	9

Decoding the corporate venture capital lifecycle: a systematic review and research agenda	9
‘They don’t waste money on women’: gendered entrepreneurial household dynamics and the total social organization of labour	9
The impact of national culture on homophily in immigrant founding teams	9
Rethinking and reconceptualising entrepreneurship education a legacy from Alistair Anderson	8
Examining the impact of poverty-related life stressors’ on persistence in entrepreneurship	8
Causal Configurations of SME Strategic Renewal in Crisis: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Quebec Entrepreneurs amid COVID-19	8
Holding up the sky together? Family support dynamics and gender in entrepreneurship in China	8
Agroecological entrepreneurship: a driving force in the sustainable transformation of agri-food systems	8
The patriot-preneur – China’s strategic narrative of women entrepreneurs in Chinese media	8
Worldview matters: exploring the interplay between Indigenous worldviews and entrepreneurial journeys – storytelling from Chile’s Mapuche	8
The magical language of un-realistic venture ideas in social entrepreneurship	8
Exploring interfirm collaboration processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises: an institutional logics perspective	8
Family firm innovativeness: an investigation of family governance, commitment, and generation involvement	8
‘Adopting place’: how an entrepreneurial sense of belonging can help revitalise communities	8
Gender inclusive entrepreneurship education and training: challenges and indicators	8
Entrepreneurship as a pathway into and out of poverty: a configuration perspective	8
Curiosity and curious search in Entrepreneurship	7
‘Start with a bold statement’ – gendered displays of confidence in entrepreneurial pitching	7
Public support and firm performance: a systematic review and research agenda	7
Emancipatory entrepreneurship as the lifelong pursuit of Eigensinn	7
Entrepreneurship and embeddedness: process, context and theoretical foundations	7
Crisis perceptions among Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs: Psychological antecedents and venture progress	7
Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks	7
Scaling the great wall: how women entrepreneurs in China overcome cultural barriers through digital affordances	7
Leveraging political skill in the entrepreneurial fundraising process	7
Believing in climate change: help or hindrance for entrepreneurs’ resilience?	7
Exploring the construction of social capital within the student entrepreneurship sub-ecosystem	7
Bending reality to your will: entrepreneurship through the lens of magical realism	7
The effect of birth order on entrepreneurship: evidence from China	6
Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures	6
How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens	6
From believer to entrepreneur: the mediating role of eudaimonic well-being	6
Does religion in the home country matter for new venture internationalization? A cross-country analysis	6
Chronic turmoil resilience, confrontation resilience, and their dark side: women entrepreneurs in Lebanon	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
Employee layoffs in times of crisis: do family firms differ?	6
Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward	6
Employment growth and profitability in European SMEs: the 100% speed limit	6
Standards for re-innovation in innovation-enabling business models of high-tech SMEs: a conceptual model of a capability-based view	6
Enhancing product innovativeness in SMEs: the role of owners’ bonding social capital, owners’ bridging behaviours and mobilized social capital	6
Entrepreneuring in necessity contexts: effecting change among widow entrepreneurs in Northern Ghana	5
The neurosocial alchemy of entrepreneurial transformation: a deep dive into extended mirror neuron system and neuroplasticity	5
The impact of parental emotional support on the succession intentions of next-generation family business members	5
Learning to navigate the landscape of participation. On the initiation of students into practices of entrepreneurship (and) education	5
Changing places: the generative effects of community embeddedness in place	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
Empowering entrepreneurs: age, telework, and geographic context in transitioning to knowledge-based self-employment	5
Bricolentrepreneuring : A comparative phenomenological study of Ukrainian refugees’ entrepreneurial bricolage practices in the UK and Romania	5
The spatial interplay between productive and destructive entrepreneurship: do institutions meet expectations in rural areas?	5
Intersecting where? The multi-scalar contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs	5
Towards an ethical awareness of entrepreneurs: a Nietzschean perspective on creative destruction	5
Patriarchy repackaged: how a neoliberal economy and conservative gender norms shape entrepreneurial identities in Eastern Europe	5
Neruda through copper-coloured glasses: the role of place attachment in the embeddedness of Chilean entrepreneurship	4
Co-creating value in entrepreneurship: an exploratory study of Lebanese women	4
Knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation influencing employee venturing behaviours at the national level: the moderating role of national entrepreneurial values	4
Entrepreneurs’ self-efficacy and business opportunity identification during COVID-19: the moderating role of social media interactions	4
Business incubation as a community of practice: an emergent cultural web	4
An Entrepreneurship-as-practice perspective of next-generation becoming family businesses successors: the role of discursive artefacts	4
The interconnected influences of institutional and social embeddedness on processes of social innovation: A Polanyian perspective	4
A performative perspective on sensing, seizing, and transforming in small- and medium-sized enterprises	4
Contextual understanding of care ethics in social entrepreneurship	4
Summons from the past: spiritual calling in Indigenous entrepreneurship	4
Harnessing the silver tsunami: an investigation into the benefits and challenges of senior entrepreneurship in Singapore	4
Strategic agencement: how sustainable entrepreneurs address the dual liabilities of newness and otherness	4
Entrepreneuring as emancipation in family business succession: a story of agony and ecstasy	4
How do entrepreneurial ecosystem promotes entrepreneurship in non-core regions? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis based on western China	4
How local geography shapes firm geography	4
Tracking spatial distribution and regional characteristics of gazelles	4
Fanning the flame - a process-relational view on creative hub practices for rural development	4
Socialist imprints and innovation strategies in a transition economy	4
Female gender interests and education in women entrepreneurs’ definition of success in Uganda	4