OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 27. 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
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	329
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	228
The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance	112
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	61
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	56
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	46
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	45
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	45
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	44
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	41
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	37
Work to live or live to work: influence of entrepreneurs’ social identity on meaningful work	36
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	36
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	35
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	35
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	34
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	33
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	33
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	31
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	30
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	30
The synergistic impact of market and technology orientations on sustainable innovation performance: evidence from manufacturing firms	29
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	29
Balancing financial and social goals: do social startups grow like other startups?	28
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	28

Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	28
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	28
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	27