OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 28. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	349
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	253
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	119
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	69
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	50
Work to live or live to work: influence of entrepreneurs’ social identity on meaningful work	48
Empowering growth: delegating decision-making authority during the evolution of new businesses	46
Twin transformation: a catalyst for African entrepreneurial innovation	46
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	42
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	41
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	38
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	38
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	38
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	37
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	36
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	36
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	36
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	34
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	33
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	33
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	32
Balancing financial and social goals: do social startups grow like other startups?	32
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	32
Individual and organizational drivers of pro-social and pro-environmental entrepreneurial behavior for the institutionalization of SDGs	31
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	31

Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	29
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	28
Unpacking the joint roles of energetic, motivational and recovery mechanisms in entrepreneurs' health and performance	28
Exploring social CRM capabilities, innovation and operational efficiency in driving social enterprise performance	28