OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	75
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	51
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	43
From deficit narratives to ambidextrous embeddedness: how high-tech ventures navigate and transform hyperdynamic contexts in sub-Saharan Africa	42
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	41
Dual-sided evolution: the Seoul ICT entrepreneurial ecosystem case	39
Entrepreneurship as a journey of resistance: reimagining socio-cultural life in the periphery	34
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	32
Strength in numbers? An investigation of the relationship between ethnic minority population and ethnic minority-owned business outcomes	31
Correction	30
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	29
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	28
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	26
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	25
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	25
From emergence to maturity: contextually embedded resource mobilization in social enterprises	24
Gender inclusion/exclusion in business incubators and accelerators: a critical discourse analysis of websites	24
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	24
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	23
In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand	23
A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach	21
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	21
A typology of the engaged university: an empirical investigation into how universities in Europe engage	21
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	20
Beyond additivity: a Configurational Theory of university-ecosystem alignment for founder creation	19

A home in the ocean: how identity shapes social purpose in a small family business	19
Grow to last or grow to sell? Strategy making and narrative identity refocussing in business support programmes	19
When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	19
Orientation towards environmental sustainability in European family versus nonfamily firms: the role of policymaker engagement and incentives	19
‘Put heads together’: How engaging communities of inquiry propels innovation-driven entrepreneurship in emerging economies	18
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	18
German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed	17
Turning waste into opportunity: collective effectuation and place-based circular innovation	17
Early-stage refugee entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial dispositions, institutions and readiness	17
Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation	17
A micro-level study of agricultural family-managed firms: the role of age in the management of family social capital	17
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	16
The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship	16
An exploration of how Moroccan ethnic minority women navigate and negotiate their entrepreneurial identity in the Netherlands: a postfeminist analysis	15
Influence of active ageing capacities on the prevalence of senior entrepreneurship	15
Refugee entrepreneurship within and beyond refugee camps: constrained and adaptive resourcefulness	15
The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management	15
A battle of hearts and minds: social construction of founder identity in family business exit through a family drama	15
The legitimacy of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystems: perceptions of supported entrepreneurs	14
Blockchain and vulnerable entrepreneurial ecosystems	14
Beyond simple embeddedness: probing entrepreneurs’ strategic religious engagement	14
Constructing the identity of the religious entrepreneur: a master narrative approach	14
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees	13
External corporate venturing in family firms: a behavioural perspective	12
Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs	12
Family firms motivations and commitment to achieving sustainable development goals: a research agenda	12
Crafting social entrepreneuring: intra-sectional possibilities in responding to GBV	12
Sustainable entrepreneurial behaviours of family members at the intersection of family firm, cooperative and rural community: a multilevel perspective	12
Navigating international entrepreneurship while impacting regional development in the digital age	12
Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance	11
When crises meet grand environmental challenges: Navigating intertemporal tensions in European manufacturing family firms	11
Structure and dynamics of a precarious entrepreneurial sub-ecosystem in a developed country	11
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	11
Shaping masculine entrepreneur identities through fictions	11
Fiction and the entrepreneurial imagination	11
Strategic decisions in family firms: a situated gamble perspective	10
Gradually changing society: women entrepreneurs and institutional change in Saudi Arabia	10
How incubation creates value for early-stage entrepreneurs: the People-Place nexus	10
Damsels in distress or the queens of change? Exploring the sustainable development contributions of women entrepreneurs in poverty contexts	10
Understanding Hindu religious entrepreneurship: a translation perspective	10
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	10
Exploring SME’s behavioural changes resulting from innovation policy: the effect of receiving a subsidy on intrapreneurship	10
‘They don’t waste money on women’: gendered entrepreneurial household dynamics and the total social organization of labour	10
The role of religious beliefs in productive entrepreneurship and personal social responsibility: insights from a non-WEIRD nation	10
How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being	10
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	10
Entrepreneurial ecosystem typologies for entrepreneurial dynamism: a configurational theorizing	10
Navigating mission drift in social enterprises: the interplay of social entrepreneurs’ dual “business facet” and governance structure	10
The impact of national culture on homophily in immigrant founding teams	10
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	10

Failure’s virtues: the seeding of an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in a peripheral region	10
Entrepreneurialism: conceptual exploration of an ideology	10