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 2021-09-01 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
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	43
A Tribute to the Life and Work of Jess Chua	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 Silicon Valley Syndrome	37
“The Odd Ones Out”: How Root Metaphors From Management Studies are Used in Mainstream Entrepreneurship Research	37
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	35
No Credit for Success, Penalized for Failure? An Examination of Entrepreneur Race, Gender, and Prior Fundraising Track Records in Crowdfunding	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
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	26
Communicating During Societal Crises: How Entrepreneurs’ Interactions with Backers Affect Fundraising via Crowdfunding	24
Entrepreneurship, Management, and Cognitive Reflection: A Preregistered Replication Study With Extensions	24
Gender Diversity, Role Congruity and the Success of VC Investments	24
Crises, Covid-19, and Entrepreneurship	23
Troops are Business Schools: Military Service and Entrepreneurial Behaviors in China	22
Groupthink in the Board of Family Firms: The Case of Institutional Investment	22
Questioning the Growth Dogma: A Replication Study	21
Towards a Dynamic Model of Entrepreneurial Energy	21
Outcome-Based Imitation in Family Firms’ International Market Entry Decisions	20
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	20
Restricted Variance Interactions in Entrepreneurship Research: A Unique Basis for Context-as-Moderator Hypotheses	20
Entrepreneurship and Regulatory Voids: The Case of Ridesharing	19
Enacting Positive Social Change: A Civic Wealth Creation Stakeholder Engagement Framework	19
Merely Folklore? The Role of a Growth Mindset in the Taking and Timing of Entrepreneurial Actions	19
Shades of Grey or Black and White? How Entrepreneurs’ Use of Cognitively Complex Language Affects Investor Funding	18
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	18
Just one Damned Thing After Another: Towards an Event-based Perspective of Entrepreneurship	17
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
The Interdependence Between Donors and Investors: Liability of Hybridity, Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Affordances, and Venture Financing	17
Replicating Davidsson and Honig (2003): Updates on Human Capital, Social Capital, and Replications in Entrepreneurship	17
When Failure Is Not Fatal: Examining Venture Resource Acquisition Following Product Development Failure	16
In Pursuit of Impact: From Research Questions to Problem Formulation in Entrepreneurship Research	16
Entrepreneurial Passion: A Meta-Analysis of Three Measures	16
Playing the Business Angel: The Impact of Well-Known Business Angels on Venture Performance	16
Misconceptions About the Theoretical Support for Family Firm Long-Term Orientation	16
Evaluating Affordance-Based Opportunities: A Conjoint Experiment of Corporate Venture Capital Managers’ Decision-Making	16
More Than One Way to Tell a Story: A Configurational Approach to Storytelling in Crowdfunding	16
Challenging What We Think We Know: Theory and Evidence for Questioning Common Beliefs About the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurial Confidence	15
What Does Not Kill You Makes You Search: The Effects of Failure Threat and Self-Evaluation on Entrepreneurs’ Ego Networks	15
Qualitative Comparative Analysis in Entrepreneurship Research	15
Self-Efficacy in Disrupted Environments: COVID-19 as a Natural Experiment	14
Act or Wait-and-See? Adversity, Agility, and Entrepreneur Wellbeing across Countries during the COVID-19 Pandemic	13
A Critical Assessment of the National Expert Survey Data of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor	13
The Double-Edged Sword of Entrepreneurial Orientation: A Configurational Perspective on Failure in Newly Public Firms	13
Overcoming Buyer-Seller Tensions in the Pre-Acquisition Process	13
Colocation of Entrepreneurs and New Firm Survival: Role of New Firm Founder’s Experiential Relatedness to Local Entrepreneurs	13
Relational Entrepreneurial Perseverance in Extreme Contexts	13
Ecosystem Orchestration: Unpacking the Leadership Capabilities of Anchor Organizations in Nascent Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	13
How Does Regional Social Capital Structure the Relationship Between Entrepreneurship, Ethnic Diversity, and Residential Segregation?	12
Artificial Intelligence and Entrepreneurship: A Call for Research to Prospect and Establish the Scholarly AI Frontiers	12
Dancing with Strangers? Initial Trust and the Formation of Initial Ties Between New Ventures and Corporate Venture Capitalists	12
Advancing Entrepreneurship Theory Through Replication: A Case Study on Contemporary Methodological Challenges, Future Best Practices, and an Entreaty for Communality	12
Mining the Past: History Scripting Strategies and Competitive Advantage in a Family Business	11
Crafting and Assessing Design Science Research for Entrepreneurship	11
No Simple Way to Say Goodbye! Untangling the Heterogeneity of Social Venture Founder Exit Intention	10

Founder-CEO Extraversion and Sustainability Orientation in Initial Coin Offerings	10
Task Re-allocation in New Venture Teams: A Team Conflict Perspective	10
Examining Psychological Mediators in Entrepreneurship: Experimental Designs, Remedies, and Recommendations	10
Tales of the Unexpected: The Repair Work of an Entrepreneurial Resourcing Practice and the Role of Emotions	10
Entrepreneurial Opportunities as Responsibility	9
Is It Okay to Study Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) at the Individual Level? Yes!	9
Looking Back To Venture Forward: Exploring Idea and Identity Work in Public Failure Narratives	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
To Be or Not to Be: The Entrepreneur in Neo-Schumpeterian Growth Theory	9
Publication Notice	9
The Promise of New Ventures’ Growth Ambitions in Early-Stage Funding: On the Crossroads between Cheap Talk and Credible Signals	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
Employee Welfare, Social Capital, and IPO Firm Survival	8
Developing the Entrepreneurial Paradox Mindset: The Role of Startup Accelerators and Educational Programs	8
In the Eye of the Storm: Entrepreneurs and Well-Being During the COVID-19 Crisis	8
Knowledge-Related Resourcefulness for Growth in Weak Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	8
The Long-Run Effects of Communism and Transition to a Market System on Self-Employment: The Case of Germany	8
Leveraging the Lab: How Pre-Founding R&D Collaboration Influences the Internationalization Timing of Academic Spin-Offs	8
Positioning, Articulating, and Crafting Conceptual Articles on Entrepreneurship	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
Informal Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda	7
Effects of Family Ownership and Professionalization on Firms’ Financial Performance and Sustainability Reputation	7
Digital Product Innovation Within Family Firms: A Construal Level Perspective	7