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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	120
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	115
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	94
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	94
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	56
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	53
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	51
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	49
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	47
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	47
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	43
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	42
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	40
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	40
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	40
When Shooting for the Stars Becomes Aiming for Asterisks: P-Hacking in Family Business Research	39
The Silicon Valley Syndrome	37
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	37
With(Out) a Little Help From My Friends? Reconciling Incongruous Findings on Stakeholder Management, Innovation, and Firm Performance	36
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	35
Gender and Counterstereotypical Facial Expressions of Emotion in Crowdfunded Microlending	35
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	34
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	34
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	34
How Starting Strategy and Network Structure Shape Problemistic Search: An Examination of Venture Capital Firms	33

Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	32
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	32
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	32
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	31
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	30
Toward a Theory of Family Social Capital in Wealthy Transgenerational Enterprise Families	29
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	29
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	28
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	27
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	26
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	26
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	26
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	25
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	24
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	23
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	22
Venturing for Others, Subject to Role Expectations? A Role Congruity Theory Approach to Social Venture Crowd Funding	21
Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework	21
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	21
Helping Entrepreneurs Help Themselves: A Review and Relational Research Agenda on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations	20
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	20
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	19
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	19
Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship	18
Playing the Business Angel: The Impact of Well-Known Business Angels on Venture Performance	18
Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship	18
In Pursuit of Impact: From Research Questions to Problem Formulation in Entrepreneurship Research	18
Misconceptions About the Theoretical Support for Family Firm Long-Term Orientation	18
More Than One Way to Tell a Story: A Configurational Approach to Storytelling in Crowdfunding	17
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Search: The Effects of Failure Threat and Self-Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’ Ego Networks	16
When Failure Is Not Fatal: Examining Venture Resource Acquisition Following Product Development Failure	16
Self-Efficacy in Disrupted Environments: COVID-19 as a Natural Experiment	15
Evaluating Affordance-Based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making	15
Ecosystem Orchestration: Unpacking the Leadership Capabilities of Anchor Organizations in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	15
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research	15
Challenging What We Think We Know: Theory and Evidence for Questioning Common Beliefs About the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence	15
Entrepreneurial Passion: A Meta-Analysis of Three Measures	15
A Critical Assessment of the National Expert Survey Data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	14
Dancing with Strangers? Initial Trust and the Formation of Initial Ties Between New Ventures and Corporate Venture Capitalists	13
Colocation of Entrepreneurs and New Firm Survival: Role of New Firm Founder’s Experiential Relatedness to Local Entrepreneurs	13
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Configurational Perspective on Failure in Newly Public Firms	13
The Influence of Incubator and Accelerator Participation on Nanotechnology Venture Success	13
How Does Regional Social Capital Structure the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Ethnic Diversity, and Residential Segregation?	13
Narrating the Facets of Time in Entrepreneurial Action	13
Overcoming Buyer-Seller Tensions in the Pre-Acquisition Process	13
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers	13
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality	12
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	12
Mining the Past: History Scripting Strategies and Competitive Advantage in a Family Business	12

Task Re-allocation in New Venture Teams: A Team Conflict Perspective	12
Taking a Second Look at the Bait: Attention to Upside Potential Versus Downside Risk in Venture Capitalists’ Staged Investment	11
Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions	11
Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility	11
Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs	11
Examining Psychological Mediators in Entrepreneurship: Experimental Designs, Remedies, and Recommendations	11
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory	10
No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention	10
Looking Back To Venture Forward: Exploring Idea and Identity Work in Public Failure Narratives	10
Bankruptcy Regulation and Self-Employment Entry: The Moderating Roles of Income Share, Parenthood, and Hybrid Entrepreneurship	10
Employee Welfare, Social Capital, and IPO Firm Survival	9
Publication Notice	9
Knowledge-Related Resourcefulness for Growth in Weak Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	9
Founder-CEO Extraversion and Sustainability Orientation in Initial Coin Offerings	9
A System Justification Theory of Entrepreneurial Attitudinal Change During a Crisis	9
Leveraging the Lab: How Pre-Founding R&D Collaboration Influences the Internationalization Timing of Academic Spin-Offs	9
Is It Okay to Study Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) at the Individual Level? Yes!	9
In the Eye of the Storm: Entrepreneurs and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis	8
The Long-Run Effects of Communism and Transition to a Market System on Self-Employment: The Case of Germany	8
The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Perceived Competence and Cooperativeness in Early-Stage Financing	8
Digital Product Innovation Within Family Firms: A Construal Level Perspective	8
Effects of Family Ownership and Professionalization on Firms’ Financial Performance and Sustainability Reputation	8
The Promise of New Ventures’ Growth Ambitions in Early-Stage Funding: On the Crossroads between Cheap Talk and Credible Signals	7
Rogue Entrepreneurship	7
Benevolent Sexism and the Gender Gap in Startup Evaluation	7
The Role of Stereotype Threat, Anxiety, and Emotional Intelligence in Women’s Opportunity Evaluation	7
The Influence of Economics Education in School on Future Entrepreneurial Behavior	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
Informal Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda	7
Positioning, Articulating, and Crafting Conceptual Articles on Entrepreneurship	7
Women Entrepreneurs Negotiating Identities in Liminal Digital Spaces	7