OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 6. 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
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	219
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	120
Entrepreneurship and Physical Health: A Natural Experiment Based on the 1956 British Clean Air Act	110
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	80
Baby Boom or Baby Bust? Parental Leave of TMT Members and Innovation in SMEs	56
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	56
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	55
ETP at 50: The Past, Present, and Future of Entrepreneurship Research	49
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: Product Recalls and the Role of COO Power	44
Shifts in Innovation Focus in Response to Online and Offline Shareholder Activism: Unpacking Patterns in Family and Non-Family Firms	42
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	41
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	36
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	33
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	33
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	31
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	31
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	30
Mediated Reference Point Shifts: Breaking Free of the Family DNA	29
No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding	26
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	25
When Environmental Sustainability Meets Equity Crowdfunding: The Role of Green Ventures in Job Creation	25
“The Odd Ones Out”: How Root Metaphors From Management Studies are Used in Mainstream Entrepreneurship Research	25
Angel Investors’ Reinvestment Decisions: Escalating Commitments and Conflict Management Beyond Venture Performance	23
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	23
Human Capital Theory and Venture Capital Firms: Exploring “Home Runs” and “Strike Outs”—A Replication and Extension of Dimov and Shepherd (2005)	23

Private Equity Diversity and Talent: Do They Matter for Acquisitive Growth?	22
Startup Evaluations with Generative Artificial Intelligence: An Exploratory Study on Early-Stage Investments and Survival Predictions by Large Language Models	22
Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Conceptual Foundations, Integrative Theoretical Framework, and Research Agenda	21
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	21
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	21
Founders’ Social Class Origin, Risk-Taking, and Venture Performance: A Bourdieusian Lens	20
A Methodological Guide for Quantitative Analysis of Star Performance in Entrepreneurship	20
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	19
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	19
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	19
Politics of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Compassion Venture Expansion	19
Crowd Evaluations of Entrepreneurs with Physical Disabilities: Stereotype Subtyping through the Lens of Benevolent Ableism	18
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	17
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	17
Seeing Expectations as “Opportunities”: Interpretive Philosophy and the Origins of “Opportunity” Perceptions	17
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	17
Fabricating Effectual Networks: How Hybrid Logics Collectivize Voice for Co-Creation in Makerspaces	17
Resource Orchestration, Team Faultlines, and Entrepreneurial Resilience	17
Is Blending Fintech With Traditional Finance a Top-Shelf Blend or a Sour Mix? Evidence From the Ownership of Equity Crowdfunding Platforms	17
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	16
Measuring Entrepreneurial Activities in the U.S.: Introducing the Entrepreneurship in the Population Survey	16
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	16
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	16
Cognitive Processes of Signal Set From Entrepreneurs and the Importance of Herds in Equity Crowdfunding	15
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	15
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	15
A Real Options Reasoning Perspective on Entrepreneurs’ Decision-Making Over Time	15
The Interdependence Between Donors and Investors: Liability of Hybridity, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Affordances, and Venture Financing	15
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	14
Loss Aversion and Hybrid Entrepreneurship: Economic Insecurity, Low-Income Wage Work, and Side Hustles	14
Shades of Grey or Black and White? How Entrepreneurs’ Use of Cognitively Complex Language Affects Investor Funding	14
Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship	13
Why and How Family Business Research Should Account for Differences Between Public and Private Family Firms	13
Passive Consumer to Active Creator: Review of Drivers, Processes, and Outcomes of User Entrepreneurship	13
Playing the Business Angel: The Impact of Well-Known Business Angels on Venture Performance	13
Publication Notice	12
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Search: The Effects of Failure Threat and Self-Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’ Ego Networks	12
Misconceptions About the Theoretical Support for Family Firm Long-Term Orientation	12
Can Lack-of-Fit Penalties Apply to Male Entrepreneurs? Equity Fundraising in Femtech	12
How Do Entrepreneurs Form Social Business Opportunity Beliefs? An Opportunity Actualization Perspective	12
When Failure Is Not Fatal: Examining Venture Resource Acquisition Following Product Development Failure	12
Evaluating Affordance-Based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making	11
Relational Entrepreneurial Perseverance in Extreme Contexts	11
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research	11
The Paradox of Inclusion: Modeling Systemic Dynamics of the Gender Finance Gap in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	11
From Personal to Collective Powers: Towards Gender Inclusivity in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	11
Institutional Space-Making for Equity in Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Evidence from U.S. Cities	11
Sustainability-Oriented Institutions and the Success of Green Reward-Based Crowdfunding Campaigns	11
Ecosystem Orchestration: Unpacking the Leadership Capabilities of Anchor Organizations in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	11
How Does Regional Social Capital Structure the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Ethnic Diversity, and Residential Segregation?	10

Measuring Socioemotional Wealth Using Content Analysis: A SEWi-Based Approach	10
Toward a Relational Perspective on Hybrid Entrepreneurship: Institutional Complexity and the Co-Construction of Liminal Space in Hybrid Female Entrepreneurship	10
A Blessing in Disguise: Logic (In)Compatibility, Centrality, and Social Innovation in Hybrid Social Ventures	10
A Critical Assessment of the National Expert Survey Data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	10
What If We Took Entrepreneurship Practice Seriously? Prescriptive Theorizing From Explanatory Models for Practical Implications	10
Dancing with Strangers? Initial Trust and the Formation of Initial Ties Between New Ventures and Corporate Venture Capitalists	9
Examining Psychological Mediators in Entrepreneurship: Experimental Designs, Remedies, and Recommendations	9
Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions	9
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	9
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers	9
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory	9
Linguistic Capital, Social Capital, and Self-Employment of Rural-Urban Migrants in China	9
Taking a Second Look at the Bait: Attention to Upside Potential Versus Downside Risk in Venture Capitalists’ Staged Investment	9
Ties That Bind or Blind? The Role of Identity and Place in Understanding Women Entrepreneurs’ Support Needs	9
Is It Okay to Study Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) at the Individual Level? Yes!	8
Task Re-allocation in New Venture Teams: A Team Conflict Perspective	8
Knowledge-Related Resourcefulness for Growth in Weak Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	8
No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention	8
The Promise of New Ventures’ Growth Ambitions in Early-Stage Funding: On the Crossroads between Cheap Talk and Credible Signals	8
Employee Welfare, Social Capital, and IPO Firm Survival	8
Developing the Entrepreneurial Paradox Mindset: The Role of Startup Accelerators and Educational Programs	8
Founder-CEO Extraversion and Sustainability Orientation in Initial Coin Offerings	8
The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Perceived Competence and Cooperativeness in Early-Stage Financing	8
Publication Notice	8
Leveraging the Lab: How Pre-Founding R&D Collaboration Influences the Internationalization Timing of Academic Spin-Offs	8
Digital Product Innovation Within Family Firms: A Construal Level Perspective	7
Effects of Family Ownership and Professionalization on Firms’ Financial Performance and Sustainability Reputation	7
Global Connections, Local Impacts: The Enduring Effects of International Syndication Experience on Venture Capital Investments	6
Transformational Family Leaders in Multi-Unit Complex Family Firms: A Multilevel Analysis	6
Benevolent Sexism and the Gender Gap in Startup Evaluation	6
The Influence of Economics Education in School on Future Entrepreneurial Behavior	6
Rogue Entrepreneurship	6
Still Waiting for Rewards? User Entrepreneur’s Reward Delivery Performance in Crowdfunding	6