OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is 5. 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
Follow the money: funding acquisition processes of nascent ventures	33
Public support and firm performance: a systematic review and research agenda	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
‘Start with a bold statement’ – gendered displays of confidence in entrepreneurial pitching	20
Neruda through copper-coloured glasses: the role of place attachment in the embeddedness of Chilean entrepreneurship	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
Leveraging political skill in the entrepreneurial fundraising process	15
Exploring the construction of social capital within the student entrepreneurship sub-ecosystem	15
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	15
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
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
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
A performative perspective on sensing, seizing, and transforming in small- and medium-sized enterprises	11

When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	11
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
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
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
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	9
Creating community: the process of entrepreneurial community building for civic wealth creation	8
Curiosity and curious search in Entrepreneurship	8
Entrepreneurship and embeddedness: process, context and theoretical foundations	8
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and distinguishing features of effective policies – an evidence-based approach	8
“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
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
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
Women’s empowerment and emancipation through entrepreneurship: extending Professor Alistair Anderson’s contributions	6
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
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