OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 26. 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
The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance	316
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	198
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	99
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	97
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	74
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	53
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	52
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	50
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	44
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	44
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	41
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	41
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	38
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	36
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	34
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	34
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	33
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	32
The synergistic impact of market and technology orientations on sustainable innovation performance: evidence from manufacturing firms	31
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	30
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	29
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	29
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	28
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	27
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	27

How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	27
A new approach to entrepreneurship and regional development: key roles of purpose and well-being in the Swansea Bay City Region	26
Talking with venture capitalists: gender perceptions in investment decisions	26
Entrepreneurial orientation, proactive market orientation and society: evidence from public service organizations in Brazil	26
A configurational perspective on comparative international entrepreneurship: a new approach to examining entrepreneurial activity combining clustering and qualitative comparative analysis	26