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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	72
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	44
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	41
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	33
Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda	33
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	32
Correction	29
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	27
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	26
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	24
A typology of the engaged university: an empirical investigation into how universities in Europe engage	23
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	23
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	20
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	18
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	18
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	18
A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach	17
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	17
When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	16
‘Put heads together’: How engaging communities of inquiry propels innovation-driven entrepreneurship in emerging economies	16
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	15
The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship	14
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	14
Family firms between territory and internationalization: an authenticity based perspective	14

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

The magical language of un-realistic venture ideas in social entrepreneurship	6
‘Start with a bold statement’ – gendered displays of confidence in entrepreneurial pitching	5
Curiosity and curious search in Entrepreneurship	5
The effect of birth order on entrepreneurship: evidence from China	5
Employment growth and profitability in European SMEs: the 100% speed limit	5
Believing in climate change: help or hindrance for entrepreneurs’ resilience?	5
Public support and firm performance: a systematic review and research agenda	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
How family business practices are created, maintained, and transformed across generations from a community of practice lens	5
Bending reality to your will: entrepreneurship through the lens of magical realism	5
Exploring the construction of social capital within the student entrepreneurship sub-ecosystem	5
Margins of intervention? Gender, Bourdieu and women’s regional entrepreneurial networks	5
Leveraging political skill in the entrepreneurial fundraising process	5
Entrepreneurial opportunities as expressions of personal identities: interpretative engagement through personal value structures	5
Entrepreneurship and embeddedness: process, context and theoretical foundations	5
Emancipatory entrepreneurship as the lifelong pursuit of Eigensinn	5
Changing places: the generative effects of community embeddedness in place	4
Entrepreneuring in necessity contexts: effecting change among widow entrepreneurs in Northern Ghana	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
Towards an ethical awareness of entrepreneurs: a Nietzschean perspective on creative destruction	4
The neurosocial alchemy of entrepreneurial transformation: a deep dive into extended mirror neuron system and neuroplasticity	4
Employee layoffs in times of crisis: do family firms differ?	4
Bricolentrepreneuring : A comparative phenomenological study of Ukrainian refugees’ entrepreneurial bricolage practices in the UK and Romania	4
Intersecting where? The multi-scalar contextual embeddedness of intersectional entrepreneurs	4
Women entrepreneurs in the Gulf States: Taking stock and moving forward	4
The spatial interplay between productive and destructive entrepreneurship: do institutions meet expectations in rural areas?	4
Entrepreneurial resource construction through collective bricolage on Denmark’s renewable energy Island: an ethnographic study	4
Empowering entrepreneurs: age, telework, and geographic context in transitioning to knowledge-based self-employment	4
Socialist imprints and innovation strategies in a transition economy	3
The impact of parental emotional support on the succession intentions of next-generation family business members	3
The interconnected influences of institutional and social embeddedness on processes of social innovation: A Polanyian perspective	3
Strategic agencement: how sustainable entrepreneurs address the dual liabilities of newness and otherness	3
An Entrepreneurship-as-practice perspective of next-generation becoming family businesses successors: the role of discursive artefacts	3
Fanning the flame - a process-relational view on creative hub practices for rural development	3
Patriarchy repackaged: how a neoliberal economy and conservative gender norms shape entrepreneurial identities in Eastern Europe	3
Knowledge creation and knowledge exploitation influencing employee venturing behaviours at the national level: the moderating role of national entrepreneurial values	3
A performative perspective on sensing, seizing, and transforming in small- and medium-sized enterprises	3
Entrepreneurs’ self-efficacy and business opportunity identification during COVID-19: the moderating role of social media interactions	3
Entrepreneuring as emancipation in family business succession: a story of agony and ecstasy	3
Contextual understanding of care ethics in social entrepreneurship	3
Learning to navigate the landscape of participation. On the initiation of students into practices of entrepreneurship (and) education	3
Business incubation as a community of practice: an emergent cultural web	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 local geography shapes firm geography	3
Harnessing the silver tsunami: an investigation into the benefits and challenges of senior entrepreneurship in Singapore	3