OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 7. 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
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	161
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	147
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	128
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	82
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	76
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	65
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	61
Entrepreneurship and Physical Health: A Natural Experiment Based on the 1956 British Clean Air Act	56
Shifts in Innovation Focus in Response to Online and Offline Shareholder Activism: Unpacking Patterns in Family and Non-Family Firms	56
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	53
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	50
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	49
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	46
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	43
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	42
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	41
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	38
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
No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding	36
Human Capital Theory and Venture Capital Firms: Exploring “Home Runs” and “Strike Outs”—A Replication and Extension of Dimov and Shepherd (2005)	32
Private Equity Diversity and Talent: Do They Matter for Acquisitive Growth?	31
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	30
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	29
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	29

Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Conceptual Foundations, Integrative Theoretical Framework, and Research Agenda	29
Founders’ Social Class Origin, Risk-Taking, and Venture Performance: A Bourdieusian Lens	28
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	28
A Methodological Guide for Quantitative Analysis of Star Performance in Entrepreneurship	27
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	26
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	25
Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	24
Politics of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Compassion Venture Expansion	24
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	23
Is Blending Fintech With Traditional Finance a Top-Shelf Blend or a Sour Mix? Evidence From the Ownership of Equity Crowdfunding Platforms	23
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	22
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	22
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	22
Seeing Expectations as “Opportunities”: Interpretive Philosophy and the Origins of “Opportunity” Perceptions	20
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	19
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	19
A Real Options Reasoning Perspective on Entrepreneurs’ Decision-Making Over Time	18
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	18
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	18
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	17
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	17
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	17
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	17
The Interdependence Between Donors and Investors: Liability of Hybridity, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Affordances, and Venture Financing	17
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	17
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	17
Playing the Business Angel: The Impact of Well-Known Business Angels on Venture Performance	16
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	16
Shades of Grey or Black and White? How Entrepreneurs’ Use of Cognitively Complex Language Affects Investor Funding	16
Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship	15
Misconceptions About the Theoretical Support for Family Firm Long-Term Orientation	15
Passive Consumer to Active Creator: Review of Drivers, Processes, and Outcomes of User Entrepreneurship	15
Why and How Family Business Research Should Account for Differences Between Public and Private Family Firms	15
In Pursuit of Impact: From Research Questions to Problem Formulation in Entrepreneurship Research	15
When Failure Is Not Fatal: Examining Venture Resource Acquisition Following Product Development Failure	14
More Than One Way to Tell a Story: A Configurational Approach to Storytelling in Crowdfunding	14
Evaluating Affordance-Based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making	14
Entrepreneurial Passion: A Meta-Analysis of Three Measures	13
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Search: The Effects of Failure Threat and Self-Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’ Ego Networks	13
Publication Notice	13
Overcoming Buyer-Seller Tensions in the Pre-Acquisition Process	12
Challenging What We Think We Know: Theory and Evidence for Questioning Common Beliefs About the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence	12
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research	12
A Critical Assessment of the National Expert Survey Data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	12
Ecosystem Orchestration: Unpacking the Leadership Capabilities of Anchor Organizations in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	12
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Linguistic Capital, Social Capital, and Self-Employment of Rural-Urban Migrants in China	11
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Configurational Perspective on Failure in Newly Public Firms	11
Colocation of Entrepreneurs and New Firm Survival: Role of New Firm Founder’s Experiential Relatedness to Local Entrepreneurs	11
Relational Entrepreneurial Perseverance in Extreme Contexts	11

How Does Regional Social Capital Structure the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Ethnic Diversity, and Residential Segregation?	11
Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality	10
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	10
Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility	10
Dancing with Strangers? Initial Trust and the Formation of Initial Ties Between New Ventures and Corporate Venture Capitalists	10
Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions	10
No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention	10
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers	10
Taking a Second Look at the Bait: Attention to Upside Potential Versus Downside Risk in Venture Capitalists’ Staged Investment	10
Examining Psychological Mediators in Entrepreneurship: Experimental Designs, Remedies, and Recommendations	10
Founder-CEO Extraversion and Sustainability Orientation in Initial Coin Offerings	9
Is It Okay to Study Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) at the Individual Level? Yes!	9
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory	9
Task Re-allocation in New Venture Teams: A Team Conflict Perspective	9
The Promise of New Ventures’ Growth Ambitions in Early-Stage Funding: On the Crossroads between Cheap Talk and Credible Signals	8
The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Perceived Competence and Cooperativeness in Early-Stage Financing	8
Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs	8
The Long-Run Effects of Communism and Transition to a Market System on Self-Employment: The Case of Germany	8
Employee Welfare, Social Capital, and IPO Firm Survival	8
Leveraging the Lab: How Pre-Founding R&D Collaboration Influences the Internationalization Timing of Academic Spin-Offs	8
Developing the Entrepreneurial Paradox Mindset: The Role of Startup Accelerators and Educational Programs	8
Publication Notice	8
Digital Product Innovation Within Family Firms: A Construal Level Perspective	7
Global Connections, Local Impacts: The Enduring Effects of International Syndication Experience on Venture Capital Investments	7
Women Entrepreneurs Negotiating Identities in Liminal Digital Spaces	7
Effects of Family Ownership and Professionalization on Firms’ Financial Performance and Sustainability Reputation	7
Rogue Entrepreneurship	7
BestAmong the Worst or Worst Among the Best? Socioemotional Wealth and Risk-Performance Returns for Family and Non-family Firms Under Financial Distress	7
Knowledge-Related Resourcefulness for Growth in Weak Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	7
The Influence of Economics Education in School on Future Entrepreneurial Behavior	7
Benevolent Sexism and the Gender Gap in Startup Evaluation	7