OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 17. 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
Human Capital Theory and Venture Capital Firms: Exploring “Home Runs” and “Strike Outs”—A Replication and Extension of Dimov and Shepherd (2005)	36
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
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
Founders’ Social Class Origin, Risk-Taking, and Venture Performance: A Bourdieusian Lens	27

Does It Need to be Broader or Deeper? Trade-Offs in Entrepreneurship Theorizing	27
Elaborating On Ethnic Entrepreneurship: How Differences in Immigrant Founders’ Strategic Choices Regarding Human Capital Sourcing Affect Business Model Designs and Evolution	26
Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	26
Resourcefulness Enactment: The Sensemaking Process Underpinning Resourceful Actions	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