OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is 9. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Going the whole nine yards: founder social identities and the nascent-active transition	103
Correction	56
Philosophy of entrepreneurship as conceptual housekeeping	50
Aesthetic Embeddedness: Towards an Aesthetic Understanding of Cultural and Artistic Entrepreneurship	47
Entrepreneurship as a journey of resistance: reimagining socio-cultural life in the periphery	43
Techno-overload and well-being of French small business owners: identifying the flipside of digital technologies	42
Rethinking embeddedness: a review and research agenda	39
Correction	36
Digital entrepreneurial ecosystem: the role of the sharing economy in driving innovation	34
Regional emergency networks: how organizations shape technological collaborations under extreme conditions	29
Resolving resistance to rural entrepreneurial identities: an authenticity-based framework	29
Strength in numbers? An investigation of the relationship between ethnic minority population and ethnic minority-owned business outcomes	29
Navigating tensions between economic and social integration among immigrant family entrepreneurs: a paradox perspective	28
In danger of being left behind? – Media narratives of the digital transformation in the German Mittelstand	28
Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship	28
A typology of the engaged university: an empirical investigation into how universities in Europe engage	27
Environmental uncertainty and entrepreneurial orientation in collectivist and individualist cultures: evidence from Brazil and Belgium	26
Exploring the (dis)advantages of smart cities’ inclusive, integrative and social practices in new business creation: the effect of human capital inflow	26
A structured review of start-up accelerator performance measurement: an integrated entrepreneurial program evaluation approach	26
The impact of policy uncertainty on entrepreneurial activity: a cross-country analysis	23
Orientation towards environmental sustainability in European family versus nonfamily firms: the role of policymaker engagement and incentives	22
Where will my future Be? Adaptive sensemaking of refugee camp entrepreneurs in perpetual liminality	22
Beyond additivity: a Configurational Theory of university-ecosystem alignment for founder creation	22
When given two choices, take both! Social impact assessment in social entrepreneurship	21
Grow to last or grow to sell? Strategy making and narrative identity refocussing in business support programmes	21

‘Put heads together’: How engaging communities of inquiry propels innovation-driven entrepreneurship in emerging economies	20
A micro-level study of agricultural family-managed firms: the role of age in the management of family social capital	19
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	19
Exploring the impact of design thinking on social enterprise mission-aligned innovation	19
The bittersweet taste of family business: exploring the dynamics gendering and racializing entrepreneurship	19
Refugee entrepreneurship within and beyond refugee camps: constrained and adaptive resourcefulness	18
German financial state aid during Covid-19 pandemic: Higher impact among digitalized self-employed	18
Resilience and entrepreneurial decision-making: the heterogeneity among Italian innovative start-ups	18
The role of cunning misrepresentations in entrepreneurial impression management	17
Images of entrepreneurship: divergent national constructions of what it is to ‘do’ entrepreneurship	17
A battle of hearts and minds: social construction of founder identity in family business exit through a family drama	17
Sustainable entrepreneurial behaviours of family members at the intersection of family firm, cooperative and rural community: a multilevel perspective	17
The legitimacy of corporate accelerators within entrepreneurial ecosystems: perceptions of supported entrepreneurs	17
Blockchain and vulnerable entrepreneurial ecosystems	17
Aiming for legitimacy but perpetuating clichés – Social evaluations of the entrepreneurial identity	17
Family firms motivations and commitment to achieving sustainable development goals: a research agenda	17
Entrepreneurship in constrained immigration contexts – the liminal integration of Syrian refugees	16
Microfinance and micropreneurship in rural South-East Nigeria: an exploration of the effects of institutions	16
Fiction and the entrepreneurial imagination	14
External corporate venturing in family firms: a behavioural perspective	13
Creating an entrepreneurial story in digital spaces: the journeys and experiences of social media entrepreneurs	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
Bricolage – a systematic review, conceptualization, and research agenda	13
Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and distinguishing features of effective policies – an evidence-based approach	13
Shaping masculine entrepreneur identities through fictions	13
Exploring SME’s behavioural changes resulting from innovation policy: the effect of receiving a subsidy on intrapreneurship	12
Driven to influence: how entrepreneurial drive and political skill influence new venture performance	12
Sectoral digital capabilities and complementarities in shaping young firms’ growth: evidence from Europe	12
Explore or exploit? Unpacking the situational conditions and cognitive mechanisms underlying entrepreneurial learning in the new venture development process	12
Technology transfer offices and the formation of academic spin-off entrepreneurial teams	12
Strategic decisions in family firms: a situated gamble perspective	12
Entrepreneurial ecosystem typologies for entrepreneurial dynamism: a configurational theorizing	12
Entrepreneurialism: conceptual exploration of an ideology	11
Redefining boundaries: the case of women angel investors in a patriarchal context	10
How civic engagement sparks entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of well-being	10
Transforming enterprise education: sustainable pedagogies of hope and social justice	10
Navigating mission drift in social enterprises: the interplay of social entrepreneurs’ dual “business facet” and governance structure	10
Failure’s virtues: the seeding of an emerging entrepreneurial ecosystem in a peripheral region	10
The role of religious beliefs in productive entrepreneurship and personal social responsibility: insights from a non-WEIRD nation	10
A discourse of virtue: how poor women entrepreneurs justify their activities in the context of moderate Islam	10
Decoding the corporate venture capital lifecycle: a systematic review and research agenda	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	9
Regional-level coopetition strategies and company performance: evidence from the Canadian wine industry	9
Clusters under pressure: the impact of a crisis in Italian industrial districts	9
Gradually changing society: women entrepreneurs and institutional change in Saudi Arabia	9
How incubation creates value for early-stage entrepreneurs: the People-Place nexus	9
Board composition and corporate governance performance: investigating the effects of diversity	9
Green human resource management in a family business setting: a fuzzy set approach	9

Entrepreneurial quality in emerging economies: does communist legacy matter?	9
Influenced by the lives of others: narratives of role modelling throughout the start-up process	9
Framing conflicting demands and strategies for managing hybridity in social enterprises	9