OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 30. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Twin transformation: a catalyst for African entrepreneurial innovation	142
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	101
Work to live or live to work: influence of entrepreneurs’ social identity on meaningful work	57
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	53
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	48
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	46
How internally displaced entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa restart their ventures: a tale of entrepreneurial resilience through bricolage	44
Empowering growth: delegating decision-making authority during the evolution of new businesses	43
Economic freedom, economic hardship and entrepreneurship: a cross-country analysis	41
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	40
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	40
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	40
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	39
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	38
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	38
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	38
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	38
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	37
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	36
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	36
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	34
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	34
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	33
Balancing financial and social goals: do social startups grow like other startups?	33
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	33

Unpacking the joint roles of energetic, motivational and recovery mechanisms in entrepreneurs' health and performance	31
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	31
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	31
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	31
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	30