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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	293
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	161
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	85
Student venture creation: developing social networks within entrepreneurial ecosystems in the transition from student to entrepreneur	84
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	75
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	69
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	62
The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance	53
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	47
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	45
Are social and traditional entrepreneurial intentions really that different?	39
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	39
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	39
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	37
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	36
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	36
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	34
Causal modelling of failure fears for international entrepreneurs in tourism industry: a hybrid Delphi-DEMATEL based approach	34
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	34
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	34
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	32
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	32
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	31
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	30
Entrepreneurial approach for open innovation: opening new opportunities, mapping knowledge and highlighting gaps	30

Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	29
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	28
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	28