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

Article	Citations
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	95
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	52
Entrepreneurship as a journey of resistance: reimagining socio-cultural life in the periphery	42
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	41
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	41
Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda	38
Correction	34
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	29
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	27
Strength in numbers? An investigation of the relationship between ethnic minority population and ethnic minority-owned business outcomes	26
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	26
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	26
Orientation towards environmental sustainability in European family versus nonfamily firms: the role of policymaker engagement and incentives	26
A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach	25
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	25
A typology of the engaged university: an empirical investigation into how universities in Europe engage	24
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	24
In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand	24
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	24
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	22
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	21
‘Put heads together’: How engaging communities of inquiry propels innovation-driven entrepreneurship in emerging economies	20
Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation	19
Grow to last or grow to sell? Strategy making and narrative identity refocussing in business support programmes	19
German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed	19

When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	19
The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship	17
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	17
Family firms motivations and commitment to achieving sustainable development goals: a research agenda	17
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	17
A battle of hearts and minds: social construction of founder identity in family business exit through a family drama	17
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees	16
The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management	16
The legitimacy of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystems: perceptions of supported entrepreneurs	15
Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to ‘do’ entrepreneurship	15
Sustainable entrepreneurial behaviours of family members at the intersection of family firm, cooperative and rural community: a multilevel perspective	15
Microfinance and micropreneurship in rural South-East Nigeria: an exploration of the effects of institutions	15
Fiction and the entrepreneurial imagination	14
Aiming for legitimacy but perpetuating clichés – Social evaluations of the entrepreneurial identity	14
Blockchain and vulnerable entrepreneurial ecosystems	14
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	13
Understanding the entrepreneurial resilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case of Quechuas in Bolivia	13
When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	13
External corporate venturing in family firms: a behavioural perspective	12
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and distinguishing features of effective policies – an evidence-based approach	12
Exploring SME’s behavioural changes resulting from innovation policy: the effect of receiving a subsidy on intrapreneurship	12
Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs	12
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	12
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	11
Entrepreneurial ecosystem typologies for entrepreneurial dynamism: a configurational theorizing	11
Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance	11
Strategic decisions in family firms: a situated gamble perspective	11
Shaping masculine entrepreneur identities through fictions	11
Navigating mission drift in social enterprises: the interplay of social entrepreneurs’ dual “business facet” and governance structure	10
Transforming enterprise education: sustainable pedagogies of hope and social justice	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
How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being	10
A discourse of virtue: how poor women entrepreneurs justify their activities in the context of moderate Islam	10
Gradually changing society: women entrepreneurs and institutional change in Saudi Arabia	9
Redefining boundaries: the case of women angel investors in a patriarchal context	9
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	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	8
Board composition and corporate governance performance: investigating the effects of diversity	8
Entrepreneurial quality in emerging economies: does communist legacy matter?	8
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
Family firm innovativeness: an investigation of family governance, commitment, and generation involvement	8
Rethinking and reconceptualising entrepreneurship education a legacy from Alistair Anderson	8
Green human resource management in a family business setting: a fuzzy set approach	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
How incubation creates value for early-stage entrepreneurs: the People-Place nexus	8
Entrepreneurship as a pathway into and out of poverty: a configuration perspective	7

The magical language of un-realistic venture ideas in social entrepreneurship	7
Leveraging political skill in the entrepreneurial fundraising process	7
Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks	7
Emancipatory entrepreneurship as the lifelong pursuit of Eigensinn	7
‘Adopting place’: how an entrepreneurial sense of belonging can help revitalise communities	7
Scaling the great wall: how women entrepreneurs in China overcome cultural barriers through digital affordances	7
Bending reality to your will: entrepreneurship through the lens of magical realism	7
‘Start with a bold statement’ – gendered displays of confidence in entrepreneurial pitching	7
Entrepreneurship and embeddedness: process, context and theoretical foundations	7
Causal Configurations of SME Strategic Renewal in Crisis: Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) of Quebec Entrepreneurs amid COVID-19	7
Exploring interfirm collaboration processes of small- and medium-sized enterprises: an institutional logics perspective	7
Agroecological entrepreneurship: a driving force in the sustainable transformation of agri-food systems	7
Exploring the construction of social capital within the student entrepreneurship sub-ecosystem	7
Public support and firm performance: a systematic review and research agenda	7
Curiosity and curious search in Entrepreneurship	7
Examining the impact of poverty-related life stressors’ on persistence in entrepreneurship	7
Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures	6
Believing in climate change: help or hindrance for entrepreneurs’ resilience?	6
Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward	6
Entrepreneuring in necessity contexts: effecting change among widow entrepreneurs in Northern Ghana	6
“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	6
Standards for re-innovation in innovation-enabling business models of high-tech SMEs: a conceptual model of a capability-based view	6
The effect of birth order on entrepreneurship: evidence from China	6
How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens	6
The spatial interplay between productive and destructive entrepreneurship: do institutions meet expectations in rural areas?	6
Enhancing product innovativeness in SMEs: the role of owners’ bonding social capital, owners’ bridging behaviours and mobilized social capital	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
Employment growth and profitability in European SMEs: the 100% speed limit	6
Employee layoffs in times of crisis: do family firms differ?	6
Intersecting where? The multi-scalar contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs	6
The neurosocial alchemy of entrepreneurial transformation: a deep dive into extended mirror neuron system and neuroplasticity	5
Empowering entrepreneurs: age, telework, and geographic context in transitioning to knowledge-based self-employment	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
Business incubation as a community of practice: an emergent cultural web	5
Changing places: the generative effects of community embeddedness in place	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
The interconnected influences of institutional and social embeddedness on processes of social innovation: A Polanyian perspective	4
Entrepreneuring as emancipation in family business succession: a story of agony and ecstasy	4
Contextual understanding of care ethics in social entrepreneurship	4
Bricolentrepreneuring : A comparative phenomenological study of Ukrainian refugees’ entrepreneurial bricolage practices in the UK and Romania	4
Entrepreneurs’ self-efficacy and business opportunity identification during COVID-19: the moderating role of social media interactions	4
Digital governance voids and entrepreneurial internationalization	4
A performative perspective on sensing, seizing, and transforming in small- and medium-sized enterprises	4
Female gender interests and education in women entrepreneurs’ definition of success in Uganda	4
Knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation influencing employee venturing behaviours at the national level: the moderating role of national entrepreneurial values	4
Fanning the flame - a process-relational view on creative hub practices for rural development	4
How local geography shapes firm geography	4
An Entrepreneurship-as-practice perspective of next-generation becoming family businesses successors: the role of discursive artefacts	4
Co-creating value in entrepreneurship: an exploratory study of Lebanese women	4
Strategic agencement: how sustainable entrepreneurs address the dual liabilities of newness and otherness	4
Neruda through copper-coloured glasses: the role of place attachment in the embeddedness of Chilean entrepreneurship	4
Harnessing the silver tsunami: an investigation into the benefits and challenges of senior entrepreneurship in Singapore	4
Summons from the past: spiritual calling in Indigenous entrepreneurship	4
Tracking spatial distribution and regional characteristics of gazelles	4
Socialist imprints and innovation strategies in a transition economy	4
How do entrepreneurial ecosystem promotes entrepreneurship in non-core regions? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis based on western China	4