OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Female but not too feminine. Perceptions of female entrepreneurs and their ventures: the role of gender and feminine adornments	66
Metaphors and entrepreneurship: points of view, goals and future research questions	38
Building social capital to escape poverty: an intersectionality perspective on women’s entrepreneurship at the base of the pyramid	37
Public support and firm performance: a systematic review and research agenda	33
Follow the money: funding acquisition processes of nascent ventures	33
Business in the backwaters: how ‘distance from the core’ impacts entrepreneurs’ lived experiences	29
A place-based view on the relationship between local community commercial attractiveness and entrepreneurial interest: a multi-method analysis	25
Exploring the social and spatial role of social media for community entrepreneurship	22
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	21
Believing in climate change: help or hindrance for entrepreneurs’ resilience?	21
Neruda through copper-coloured glasses: the role of place attachment in the embeddedness of Chilean entrepreneurship	20
‘Start with a bold statement’ – gendered displays of confidence in entrepreneurial pitching	20
Emancipatory entrepreneurship as the lifelong pursuit of Eigensinn	18
Bending reality to your will: entrepreneurship through the lens of magical realism	18
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	16
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	15
Leveraging political skill in the entrepreneurial fundraising process	15
Exploring the construction of social capital within the student entrepreneurship sub-ecosystem	15
Gendered transitions to self-employment and business ownership: a linked-lives perspective	14
Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks	14
Exploring perceived post-disaster performance in micro-businesses: how does entrepreneur psychological resilience matter?	14
Of resistance to patriarchy and occupation through a virtual bazaar: an institutional theory critique of the emancipatory potential of Palestinian women’s digital entrepreneurship	14
Private equity and entrepreneurial investments: understanding the determinants of founder-CEO succession in the Caribbean	13
External corporate venturing in family firms: a behavioural perspective	13
When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	11

A performative perspective on sensing, seizing, and transforming in small- and medium-sized enterprises	11
Preparedness shapes tomorrow: crisis preparedness and strategies among SMEs amid external crises	10
Inside out: The interplay between institutions and digital technologies for SMEs performance	10
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	10
Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs	10
Capitalizing the future: opportunity capital as symbolic significance of an entrepreneur’s future-venture story	10
Shaping entrepreneurship in developing countries: the role of savings and credit groups	10
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	9
Contextualizing the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship: the Chilean paradox	9
Understanding the entrepreneurial resilience of indigenous women entrepreneurs as a dynamic process. The case of Quechuas in Bolivia	9
Stuck in the playground: a (failed) organizational entrepreneuring process	9
Entrepreneurship and embeddedness: process, context and theoretical foundations	8
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and distinguishing features of effective policies – an evidence-based approach	8
Creating community: the process of entrepreneurial community building for civic wealth creation	8
Curiosity and curious search in Entrepreneurship	8
Transforming enterprise education: sustainable pedagogies of hope and social justice	7
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	7
Exploring the interplay between context and enterprise purpose in participative social entrepreneurship: the perceptions of worker cooperative entrepreneurs	7
Correction	7
“As if it were home”: an exploratory study of the role of homesickness among migrant entrepreneurs	7
Retaining the nonprofit mission: The case of social enterprise emergence in India from a traditional nonprofit	7
Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda	7
Chinese migrant microenterprises and social capital: a multiple case study analysis in industrial clusters in Italy	7
Entrepreneurial ecosystem typologies for entrepreneurial dynamism: a configurational theorizing	7
Crafting growth together	7
Shaping opportunity structures: how transport infrastructure fuels social ventures and reduces income inequality	7
Employment growth and profitability in European SMEs: the 100% speed limit	7
A discourse of virtue: how poor women entrepreneurs justify their activities in the context of moderate Islam	7
Revealing the research potential for the field of cross-cultural entrepreneurship: lessons from an integrative literature review	7
Women’s empowerment and emancipation through entrepreneurship: extending Professor Alistair Anderson’s contributions	6
Neuroentrepreneurship: an integrative review and research agenda	6
Impairment (in)visibility and stigma: how disabled entrepreneurs gain legitimacy in mainstream and disability markets	6
From “FIBER” to “FIRE”: construct validation and refinement of the socioemotional wealth scale in family firms	6
Exploring SME’s behavioural changes resulting from innovation policy: the effect of receiving a subsidy on intrapreneurship	5
Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward	5
How do entrepreneurial ecosystem promotes entrepreneurship in non-core regions? A fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis based on western China	5
How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens	5
Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures	5
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	5
Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance	5
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	5
Responding to financing uncertainty in complex settings: the case of immigrant entrepreneurs from the Arab world in Sweden	5
The effect of birth order on entrepreneurship: evidence from China	5
Co-creating value in entrepreneurship: an exploratory study of Lebanese women	5
Gender and sex in starting up: a social stereotype approach	5
Reimagining ‘entrepreneuring as emancipation’ as a broader struggle for a freer life	5
Does location matter? Unpacking the dynamic relationship between the spatial context and embeddedness in women’s entrepreneurship	4
Escaping the shadow of the past: historical context and generational identity work among young entrepreneurs in Phnom Penh’s nascent start-up scene	4
Entrepreneuring in necessity contexts: effecting change among widow entrepreneurs in Northern Ghana	4
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	4

Community enterprise, community entrepreneurship and local development: a literature review on three decades of empirical studies and theorizations	4
Cryptocurrency legitimation through rhetorical strategies: an institutional entrepreneurship approach	4
Indigenous Entrepreneurship. Current issues and future lines	4
Discursive threads in entrepreneurship policy texts: A comparative analysis between The Netherlands and Kosovo	4
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	4
Types, determinants, and outcomes of entrepreneurial behaviours during crises	4
A systematic literature review of Chinese entrepreneurship: utilizing feminist theory with implications for public policy	4
Changing places: the generative effects of community embeddedness in place	4
Intersecting where? The multi-scalar contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs	4
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	4
Navigating mission drift in social enterprises: the interplay of social entrepreneurs’ dual “business facet” and governance structure	4
Technology transfer offices and the formation of academic spin-off entrepreneurial teams	4
How learning spaces matter in entrepreneurship education: introducing the concept of topopraxis	4
Academic entrepreneuring as a long-term commitment to regional development	4
How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being	4
Commitment-based persistence in the face of venture decline: towards a renewed approach to small business orientation	3
‘They don’t waste money on women’: gendered entrepreneurial household dynamics and the total social organization of labour	3
Historical shocks and community-based enterprises: the slave trades, family dynamics, and social entrepreneurship in Africa	3
The visceral imagination: exploring the visceral aspect of the entrepreneurial imagination through Roberto Bolaño’s the savage detectives	3
Anatomy of a qualitative methods section: embracing the researcher as an engaged author	3
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	3
Cultural diversity: an impetus to economic growth – under what conditions?	3
Employee layoffs in times of crisis: do family firms differ?	3
“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	3
Narrating the ‘social’: the evolving stories of Pakistan’s social entrepreneurs	3
Correction	3
Homogenization processes in entrepreneurship education: the case of Junior Achievement	3
Orientation towards environmental sustainability in European family versus nonfamily firms: the role of policymaker engagement and incentives	3
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	3
The spatial interplay between productive and destructive entrepreneurship: do institutions meet expectations in rural areas?	2
A nudge in the right direction? Gender-informed support by female business-incubation managers for female STEM-entrepreneurs	2
Entrepreneurial resource construction through collective bricolage on Denmark’s renewable energy Island: an ethnographic study	2
Rural entrepreneurship as-practice: a framework for research beyond stereotypical notions of entrepreneurial agency and contextual constraints	2
Theorizing Disembedding and Re-Embedding: Resource Mobilization in Refugee Entrepreneurship	2
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	2
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	2
Redefining boundaries: the case of women angel investors in a patriarchal context	2
The neurosocial alchemy of entrepreneurial transformation: a deep dive into extended mirror neuron system and neuroplasticity	2
The role and effectiveness of non-formal training programmes for entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic literature review	2
Failure’s virtues: the seeding of an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in a peripheral region	2
Social entrepreneurial crowdfunding: Influence of the type of rewards and of prosocial motivation on the crowds’ willingness to contribute	2
Bandersnatch and the entrepreneurial imagination: using critical literary methods to illustrate how antenarrative imagination emancipates entrepreneurs from path dependent storytelling	2
In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand	2
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	2
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	2
Endure, escape or engage: how and when misaligned institutional logics and entrepreneurial agency contribute to the maturing of entrepreneurial ecosystems	2
Strangers in my home: the 2015 refugee event in Europe and founder social identities of nascent entrepreneurs	2