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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Business Model Implementation of New Ventures: Linking TMT Process Antecedents, Organizational Culture, and Firm Performance	142
Taking Charge: A Configurational Perspective on Post-Succession Change in Family Firms	138
Knowledge Accumulation in Entrepreneurship	121
Laughing All the Way to the Bank: The Joint Roles of Shared Coping Humor and Entrepreneurial Team-Efficacy in New Venture Performance	75
A Self-Regulatory Model of Entrepreneurs’ Variability in Decision-Making and Taking Charge Behavior	66
A Real Options Perspective on Entrepreneurial Orientation and Government Ties	61
The Strategic Advantage of Impulsivity in Entrepreneurial Action: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach	56
Striking a Balance: The Effect of Capability and Character Reputation Claims on Crowdfunding Performance	52
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	51
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	48
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	47
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	45
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	44
Venture Capitalists’ Decision-Making in Hot and Cold Markets: The Effect of Signals and Cheap Talk	40
Informal Institutions as Inhibitors of Rent-Seeking Entrepreneurship: Evidence From U.S. Legal History	40
“The Odd Ones Out”: How Root Metaphors From Management Studies are Used in Mainstream Entrepreneurship Research	38
No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding	37
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	36
Entrepreneurial Experimentation: Conceptual Foundations, Integrative Theoretical Framework, and Research Agenda	36
Human Capital Theory and Venture Capital Firms: Exploring “Home Runs” and “Strike Outs”—A Replication and Extension of Dimov and Shepherd (2005)	36
Virtue Signaling in the Sharing Economy: The Effect of Airbnb Entrepreneurs’ Virtue Language on Airbnb Price Premiums	35
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	31
Private Equity Diversity and Talent: Do They Matter for Acquisitive Growth?	29
Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	27

Founders’ Social Class Origin, Risk-Taking, and Venture Performance: A Bourdieusian Lens	27
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	26
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	26
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	26
Politics of Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness in Compassion Venture Expansion	24
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	24
Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	24
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	24
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	23
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	23
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	23
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	22
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	22
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	21
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	21
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	20
A Real Options Reasoning Perspective on Entrepreneurs’ Decision-Making Over Time	20
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	20
The Interdependence Between Donors and Investors: Liability of Hybridity, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Affordances, and Venture Financing	19
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	19
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	17
Knowledge Spillovers, Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and the Geography of High Growth Firms	17
Shades of Grey or Black and White? How Entrepreneurs’ Use of Cognitively Complex Language Affects Investor Funding	17
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	17
Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship	17
In Pursuit of Impact: From Research Questions to Problem Formulation in Entrepreneurship Research	16
Misconceptions About the Theoretical Support for Family Firm Long-Term Orientation	16
Why and How Family Business Research Should Account for Differences Between Public and Private Family Firms	16
Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship	16
More Than One Way to Tell a Story: A Configurational Approach to Storytelling in Crowdfunding	15
Passive Consumer to Active Creator: Review of Drivers, Processes, and Outcomes of User Entrepreneurship	15
When Failure Is Not Fatal: Examining Venture Resource Acquisition Following Product Development Failure	15
Playing the Business Angel: The Impact of Well-Known Business Angels on Venture Performance	15
Evaluating Affordance-Based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making	14
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research	14
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Search: The Effects of Failure Threat and Self-Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’ Ego Networks	14
Publication Notice	14
Entrepreneurial Passion: A Meta-Analysis of Three Measures	13
Challenging What We Think We Know: Theory and Evidence for Questioning Common Beliefs About the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence	13
Relational Entrepreneurial Perseverance in Extreme Contexts	12
Overcoming Buyer-Seller Tensions in the Pre-Acquisition Process	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
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Configurational Perspective on Failure in Newly Public Firms	12
Colocation of Entrepreneurs and New Firm Survival: Role of New Firm Founder’s Experiential Relatedness to Local Entrepreneurs	11
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers	11
Dancing with Strangers? Initial Trust and the Formation of Initial Ties Between New Ventures and Corporate Venture Capitalists	11
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	11
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	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	11
Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility	10
No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention	10
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory	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
Looking Back To Venture Forward: Exploring Idea and Identity Work in Public Failure Narratives	10
Founder-CEO Extraversion and Sustainability Orientation in Initial Coin Offerings	10
Task Re-allocation in New Venture Teams: A Team Conflict Perspective	9
Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions	9
Publication Notice	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!	9
Effects of Family Ownership and Professionalization on Firms’ Financial Performance and Sustainability Reputation	9
Knowledge-Related Resourcefulness for Growth in Weak Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	8
In the Eye of the Storm: Entrepreneurs and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis	8
A System Justification Theory of Entrepreneurial Attitudinal Change During a Crisis	8
The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Perceived Competence and Cooperativeness in Early-Stage Financing	8
Developing the Entrepreneurial Paradox Mindset: The Role of Startup Accelerators and Educational Programs	8
Employee Welfare, Social Capital, and IPO Firm Survival	8
Digital Product Innovation Within Family Firms: A Construal Level Perspective	8
Leveraging the Lab: How Pre-Founding R&D Collaboration Influences the Internationalization Timing of Academic Spin-Offs	7
Global Connections, Local Impacts: The Enduring Effects of International Syndication Experience on Venture Capital Investments	7
The Long-Run Effects of Communism and Transition to a Market System on Self-Employment: The Case of Germany	7
The Promise of New Ventures’ Growth Ambitions in Early-Stage Funding: On the Crossroads between Cheap Talk and Credible Signals	7
The Influence of Economics Education in School on Future Entrepreneurial Behavior	7