OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 27. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	134
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	125
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	112
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	68
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	60
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	59
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	56
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	56
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	52
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	49
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	45
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	43
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	43
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	42
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	41
When Shooting for the Stars Becomes Aiming for Asterisks: P-Hacking in Family Business Research	39
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	38
“The Odd Ones Out”: How Root Metaphors From Management Studies are Used in Mainstream Entrepreneurship Research	37
The Silicon Valley Syndrome	37
No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding	35
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	35
Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Conceptual Foundations, Integrative Theoretical Framework, and Research Agenda	33
Human Capital Theory and Venture Capital Firms: Exploring “Home Runs” and “Strike Outs”—A Replication and Extension of Dimov and Shepherd (2005)	33
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	32
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	30

Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	30
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	28
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	27