OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is 18. 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
When Do Shareholder Agreements Add Value? Mitigating Superprincipal-Agency Conflicts in Family Firms	47
Entrepreneurial Responsibility: A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process	47
Entrepreneurship and Democracy: A Complex Relationship	43
Following in the Footsteps of Others: Social Proof in Angel Groups	42
Beneficial, Harmful, or Both? Effects of Corporate Venture Capital and Alliance Activity on Product Recalls	40
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
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	37
The Silicon Valley Syndrome	37
With(Out) a Little Help From My Friends? Reconciling Incongruous Findings on Stakeholder Management, Innovation, and Firm Performance	36
Gender and Counterstereotypical Facial Expressions of Emotion in Crowdfunded Microlending	35
Is There Opportunity Without Stakeholders? A Stakeholder Theory Critique and Development of Opportunity-Actualization	35
Indigenous Entrepreneurship and Venture Creation: A Typology of Indigenous Crowdfunding Campaigns	34
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
How Starting Strategy and Network Structure Shape Problemistic Search: An Examination of Venture Capital Firms	33

Biased Calibration: Exacerbating Instead of Mitigating Entrepreneurial Overplacement with Reference Values	32
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
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
Liability of Ownership Origin, Corporate Philanthropy, and Desire for Control in Chinese Family Firms	21
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
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
Token-Based Crowdfunding: Investor Choice and the Optimal Timing of Initial Coin Offerings	19
Gender Differences in Enterprise Performance During the COVID-19 Crisis: Do Public Policy Responses Matter?	19
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
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