International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities329
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy228
The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance112
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers61
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy56
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO46
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-1945
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship45
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa44
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization41
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow37
Work to live or live to work: influence of entrepreneurs’ social identity on meaningful work36
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?36
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities35
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent35
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green34
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs33
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation33
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison31
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena30
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting30
The synergistic impact of market and technology orientations on sustainable innovation performance: evidence from manufacturing firms29
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs29
Balancing financial and social goals: do social startups grow like other startups?28
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China28
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs28
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis28
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs27
Beyond the short-term: the effects of broad-based employee ownership on labor productivity in family and nonfamily firms26
How small organisations develop sustainability-oriented strategies: evidence from northwest Himalayas25
The impact of digital transformation on corporate innovation: an analysis of mediating effects from the management perspective25
Entrepreneurial orientation, proactive market orientation and society: evidence from public service organizations in Brazil25
Talking with venture capitalists: gender perceptions in investment decisions25
A new approach to entrepreneurship and regional development: key roles of purpose and well-being in the Swansea Bay City Region24
Innovativeness and start-up performance: a configurational analysis of relational factors24
The socioemotional wealth of leaders in family firm succession and corporate governance processes: a systematic literature review24
A configurational perspective on comparative international entrepreneurship: a new approach to examining entrepreneurial activity combining clustering and qualitative comparative analysis24
Guest editorial: New technologies and entrepreneurship: exploring entrepreneurial behavior in the digital transformation era23
How does international entrepreneurial orientation influence firms' internationalization? An exploration with Indian software product top management teams23
What lies beneath: using student reflections to study the entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education23
Career shock and the impact of stress, emotional exhaustion, and resources on entrepreneurial career commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic23
Examining the relationship between team-level entrepreneurial orientation and team performance22
Impact of founder controls on digital transformation: evidence from listed family firms in China22
Corporate entrepreneurship champions: mapping the past and present states of the field for future advancements22
The academic, the entrepreneur, the female in a dress: a micro-level exploration of multiple role identities21
IoT-based entrepreneurial opportunities in smart transportation: a multidimensional framework21
When there is a crisis, there is an opportunity? SMEs' capabilities for durability and opportunity confidence21
Dissecting the effect of family business exposure on entrepreneurial implementation intention21
Advancing the institutional perspective on informal entrepreneurship: a study of formalization intentions among street entrepreneurs21
Unearthing the multidimensional roles of place attachment in sustainable entrepreneurship: a longitudinal study of an ethnic minority entrepreneur in the UK20
Later-working-life social entrepreneurial identities: a dynamic self-categorisation framework20
The entrepreneur well-being check: a screener for entrepreneur mental health and well-being20
What lies behind entrepreneurial intentions? Exploring nascent entrepreneurs’ early belief systems20
Exploring causal recipes of startup acceptance into business incubators: a cross-country study20
For love or money? The effect of deadline proximity on completion contributions in online crowdfunding20
The non-bank lending channel: an important substitute for SME bank debt20
Navigating gender and culture in constructing network ties: perceptions and behaviors of women founders in Jordanian digital businesses19
Ethnicity and the role of the founders' human and social capital in technology-based ventures19
Privileged core-state migrant entrepreneurs in Poland: an ethnic economy in reverse?19
Internal R&D or external asset growth? A closer look at CEO narcissism and entrepreneurial orientation19
Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management: comparing configurations of native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms19
Professionalization in family businesses: the role of leadership style19
Healthcare entrepreneurship: current trends and future directions19
Guest editorial: Inequalities in entrepreneurship opportunities: the intersectionality of contexts, situatedness, positionalities and identities19
Is academic spin-off financing a matter of business and growth models? The Spanish case19
Guest editorial: Innovative knowledge: global sustainable business19
Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: the effects of long-term orientation18
Does digital governance bridge the entrepreneurship gender gap contingent on regulatory burden?18
Intra-family succession and firm’s internationalization: a network-based resource perspective18
Mapping the spatial evolution of entrepreneurial ecosystems: a clustering perspective on global investment flows18
The contingent interplay between resources, entrepreneurship and agribusiness performance among small-scale agri-food actors18
Stay alert, save businesses. Planning for adversity among immigrant entrepreneurs18
Founder role identity and firms’ strategic responses to crises18
Developing the future scholarship of entrepreneurship education: exploring educator authenticity through practice and identity—celebrating 10 years of the 3E conference18
How organizational readiness for digital innovation shapes digital business model innovation in family businesses17
How is entrepreneurial marketing shaped by E-commerce technology: a case study of Chinese pure-play e-retailers17
Beyond the land of the living death: early-stage transformational entrepreneurs in digital healthcare as liminality navigator17
Digital technologies, social entrepreneurship and resilience during crisis in developing countries: evidence from Nigeria17
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs17
Who is the entrepreneurial educator? A transferability perspective to tease out antecedents needed to form a signature pedagogy17
To persist or not to persist: understanding student team responses to effectuation in the higher education classroom17
Refugee entrepreneurship from an intersectional approach17
Business model pivoting and digital technologies in turbulent environments17
Gender stereotypes and Gen Z: navigating gender beliefs transfer through entrepreneurial pitching17
Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy16
Entrepreneurship by indigenous people in Canada and Australia: diverse modes and community implications16
Religiosity and entrepreneurship: women entrepreneurs in Turkiye16
The impact of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being: a person-centered investigation16
The malleability of international entrepreneurial cognitions: a natural quasi-experimental study on voluntary and involuntary shocks16
The effects of neurodiversity on cognitive attributes of entrepreneurs16
An emotional learning process? The role of socially induced and regulated emotions for the development of an entrepreneurial mindset16
Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation16
Entrepreneurial business network and dynamic relational capabilities: a case study approach16
Predictions through Lean startup? Harnessing AI-based predictions under uncertainty15
Cognitive factors in discouraged borrowers: how entrepreneur's perception affects borrowing discouragement15
The influence of digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation on intention of family businesses to adopt artificial intelligence: examining the mediating role of business innovativeness15
Accelerating start-ups' leap to unicorns: the role of founders' ambidextrous orientation15
Exploring the emancipatory role of entrepreneurship in a developing context15
The influence of entrepreneurial culture and organizational learning on entrepreneurial orientation: the case of new technology-based firms in Iran14
The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus14
I'll be there for you: coopetition and competitor-oriented activities among South Asian restaurants in two UK regional clusters14
Does social performance contribute to economic performance of social enterprises? The role of social enterprise reputation building14
Survival strategies adopted by microbusinesses during COVID-19: an exploration of ethnic minority restaurants in northern Finland14
Strategies to evoke entrepreneurial behavior in middle managers: involvement in strategy development and the creation of psychological ownership14
Analysing the relevance of value creation in the interconnection amongst entrepreneurship, marketing and innovation: a systematic literature review14
Guest editorial: From family entrepreneurship to family entrepreneuring13
CEO successions in times of decline and prosperity: restoring aspiration and performance implications in family firms13
Work engagement among different types of solo self-employed: the mediating role of intrinsic job resources13
Editorial: Entrepreneurial learning: a situated and contextual process13
Open innovation pathway to firm performance: the role of dynamic marketing capability in Malaysian entrepreneurial firms13
How to secure an innovation grant for firms in new industries? Gender and resource perspectives13
An exploration of the applicability of Lean Startup in small non-digital firms: an effectuation perspective13
The secrets to successful entrepreneurship: how occupational experience shapes the creation and performance of start-ups13
A quantitative study on crowdfunders' motivations, their sense of meaning and social welfare13
Island entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: current debates and future research directions13
Resource configurations among digital academic spin-offs: finding the technology-market fit12
Guest editorial: Innovative entrepreneurial behavior vs entrepreneurial activity in today's business environment12
From immigrants to local entrepreneurs: understanding the effects of migration on entrepreneurship in a highly informal country12
The impacts of entrepreneurial start-up programmes: a dynamic learning perspective12
Digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education: a review of the literature12
Digital entrepreneurship in agrifood business: a resource bricolage perspective12
Mitigating the lack of prior entrepreneurial experience and exposure through entrepreneurship education programs12
Individual-contextual determinants of entrepreneurial service provision in the platform-based collaborative economy12
Does membership of local Chambers of Commerce networks enhance rural SME performance?: An empirical analysis11
The start-up's roadmap to private equity financing: substituting discounts with a premium in valuation for growth11
From creation to growth: examining agile and business planning for sustained ventures11
Happy at home, successful in competition: the beneficial role of happiness and entrepreneurial orientation for women entrepreneurs11
Family support and business performance of South African female technology entrepreneurs11
Formal institutions and the employment growth ambitions of early-stage versus established entrepreneurs11
Does vicarious entrepreneurial failure induce or discourage one's entrepreneurial intent? A mediated model of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and identity aspiration11
Ecological resource deficits as opportunities for environmental innovation across countries11
Business incubators as a driver of sustainable entrepreneurship development: evidence from the Italian experience11
Entrepreneurial orientation far beyond opportunity: the influence of the necessity for innovativeness, proactiveness and risk-taking11
Pursuing entrepreneurial opportunities is not a choice: the interplay between gender norms, contextual embeddedness, and (in)equality mechanisms in entrepreneurial contexts11
Pre-seed grant as an enabler of learning11
Disentangling the performance implications of new venture status: competitive vulnerability, resource scarcity or strategic flexibility?11
Fantasy of success, fear of failure and entrepreneurial choice: the moderating role of business vibrancy and failure experience11
Entrepreneurial growth aspirations at re-entry after failure11
Africapitalism in action: harnessing entrepreneurship and innovation for Africa’s socioeconomic transformation11
Do government incentives increase indigenous innovation commercialisation? Empirical evidence from local Ghanaian firms11
Promoting management skills: an intercultural comparative analysis11
Editorial11
Individuating: how founder's social identities shape their evaluation of opportunities10
Educators and students in entrepreneurship education are challenging the “think entrepreneur–think male” paradigm10
Identity is a matter of place: intersectional identities of Romanian women migrant entrepreneurs on the Eastern-Western European route10
Unravelling open innovation determinants and firm performance relationships in CEE and SEE countries10
Reducing early-stage Cleantech funding gaps: an exploration of the role of Environmental Performance Indicators10
A tale of two psychological contracts: examining the differences in entrepreneurial and bureaucratic contexts10
Low-income logics: institutions' varying impact on entrepreneurship10
Agency in entrepreneurship: preparing entrepreneurship theory for another view of context10
Reconciling social enterprise: beyond the paradox perspective10
An action phase theory approach to the configuration of entrepreneurial goal and implementation intentions10
Exploratory and exploitative linkages and innovative activity in the offshore renewable energy sector10
Embedding the marketing angle into the pursuit of entrepreneurial propensity: roles of perceived feasibility and desirability and stakeholders' support10
Legitimizing new constructivist practice for entrepreneurship educators: legitimacy as a framework to examine educators’ new practice in China10
Creating a sustainable ripple in rural entrepreneurship – the case of Deserttulip in resource-constrained rural Jordan10
Artificial intelligence as an enabler for entrepreneurs: a systematic literature review and an agenda for future research10
Does managerial training increase SME managers' effectiveness? A capability development approach9
Citizenship behavior and new venture survival: a cultural tightness-looseness capabilities lens9
Mediating agricultural entrepreneurship through embracing innovative technology: a tale from small rural enterprises in an emerging economy9
Historical and social aspirations: influence of SME key decision makers’ resilience, social skills and stress on attaining firm performance goals9
Gender stereotype perception, perceived social support and self-efficacy in increasing women's entrepreneurial intentions9
Provocation: what is the world asking of entrepreneurship education?9
Religion, personality traits and the nature of entrepreneurial activities: insights from Scottish Muslim entrepreneurs9
International entrepreneurial culture of born global and non-born global family firms: a configurational approach9
Confidence and change in entrepreneurial plan upon reentry: examining the effects in crowdfunding failure9
Patent uncertainty and survival: a longitudinal study of a Chinese knowledge-based international new venture9
A multi-voiced account of family entrepreneuring research: expanding the agenda of family entrepreneurship9
Gender and entrepreneurial intention in low-income countries: the relative roles played by anticipated financial returns versus perceived barriers for university students in Sierra Leone9
We are different and yet the same: the role of CEOs’ regulatory focus and attention in SMEs’ innovation orientation preferences8
Innovative entrepreneurial behavior in high-income European countries8
Decision-making under extreme uncertainty: eristic rather than heuristic8
Transitioning to an entrepreneurial career as a process of individuation: a study of graduate entrepreneurs in Ethiopia and the role of their parents8
The impact of local entrepreneurial initiatives on women entrepreneur empowerment: the case of cooperative social ventures in Morocco8
Sticky ties among rivals for entrepreneurial leadership8
Navigating the dimensions of criticality: exploring reflective processes in critical entrepreneurship education8
A comparative study of minority entrepreneurship: entrepreneurial intention between LGBT versus traditional markets8
Board diversity as strategic choice and why it should matter to SMEs8
Understanding the success of entrepreneurial orientation: the dynamics of the relationships between strategic sustainability and the company8
Guest editorial: Artificial intelligence as an enabler for entrepreneurs: an integrative perspective and future research directions8
Guest editorial: The effect of COVID-19 on the performance of ethnic-minority firms in the UK and worldwide8
Defying the odds? Multiple disadvantage as a source of entrepreneurial action8
Strategic sensemaking by social entrepreneurs: creating strategies for social innovation8
Mechanisms for facilitating academic entrepreneurship in higher education8
The moderating role of market uncertainty in the effectiveness of government policies and R&D activities promoting innovation in manufacturing firms8
Sustainable innovation for shared mobility: contextual and consumer factors of an Indian car subscription business model8
Examining prison entrepreneurship programs, self-efficacy and entrepreneurial resilience as drivers for prisoners' entrepreneurial intentions8
Towards the regional aspects of institutional trust and entrepreneurial ecosystems8
Tensioning as intertwining, competition and superseding: a self-regulation approach to managing hybridity tensions in social enterprises8
Exploring the resource mobilization process in social enterprises in China: a bricolage and social exchange perspective7
Entrepreneurship under patriarchy: the intersecting forces characterising everyday life for Nigeria’s women entrepreneurs7
A study of entrepreneurial marketing activities and firm performance in an immediate post-COVID-19 era: the moderating role of coopetition7
Awareness of enterprise finance support programmes: the role of networks, gender and ethnicity7
Resilience through adversity: a case of informal artisan entrepreneurs in Kenya7
Ideas for bridging the academic-policy divide at the nexus of gender and entrepreneurship7
Hidden stories and the dark side of entrepreneurial commitment7
SME familiness and the use of external accountants as advisors: performance implications7
Refocusing digital entrepreneurship: an updated overview of the field, emerging opportunities and challenges7
COVID-19 vaccination: lower intention and coverage among entrepreneurs compared to employees7
Internal corporate venturing: riding the relational rollercoaster through sensemaking and sensegiving reconfiguration7
You say you can, but can you? The impact of entrepreneurship education on unwarranted and gendered entrepreneurial self-efficacy - a calibration study7
Digitalizing agriculture and the improvement of farming business practices: how rural farmers in Ghana employ mobile phone technology7
The institutional impact on the digital platform ecosystem and innovation7
Moderators of the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurial action7
Framing a feminist phenomenological inquiry into the lived experiences of women entrepreneurs7
Entrepreneuring and family firms cofounders' familiness at work through rhetoric appeals7
Everyday prejudices: an intersectional exploration of the experiences of lesbian and gay entrepreneurs7
Does practice make perfect? Assessing the formation of expertise amongst new venture founders7
Anchors of entrepreneurial careers – expanding an understanding beyond firm-founding7
International business opportunity recognition and development7
Differences between habitual and novice entrepreneurs in funding negotiations6
Educating towards the prudent entrepreneurial self – an educational journey including agency and social awareness to handle the unknown6
The lived experience of freedom among entrepreneurs with disabilities6
Lions, Bees, and Chameleons: unravelling the entrepreneurial archetypes and their impact on performance and well-being6
The role of hybrid healthcare enterprises in marginal communities: exploring Greek community pharmacies6
Generations and the Future of Work: case study exploration of Business Stakeholder perspectives on Zillennials in the Northern Irish workplace6
Barriers to entrepreneurship: an intersectional analysis of an early-stage refugee entrepreneurship programme in the United Kingdom6
Coopetition for corporate responsibility and sustainability: does it influence firm performance?6
Understanding legitimacy building in contexts through digital entrepreneurship6
What's interesting in entrepreneurial education research? Identifying conversants sharing common interests in the field6
Under external pressure: action pathways when an adverse event forces micro-enterprises to change6
Investigating the relationship between women's entrepreneurship and country-level innovation: evidence from a panel of OECD countries6
Employees' entrepreneurial behavior within their organizations: empowering leadership and employees' resources help6
Narratives of survival: how entrepreneurial families narrate their longevity6
Organisational sensemaking, outside-in entrepreneurial marketing capability, and effectual problem setting6
The way forward to promote the dynamic resources of family businesses to achieve SDGs: the mediating role of sustainability performance6
Time, kairos words, and contexts of ancient entrepreneurship6
Developing social entrepreneurship through public procurement: a wicked problem!5
The system effects of linkages on actor disposition and resource density: an approach to university-industry linkages5
Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship5
Entrepreneurship and social capital: a multi-level analysis5
International entrepreneurial startups' location under uncertainty through a heterogeneous multi-layer decision-making approach: evidence and application of an emerging economy5
Exploring post-succession role transitions: a study of family day play dynamics5
Process tracing: a methodological proposal for a practice approach to family entrepreneurship5
Intersectionality of place and race: entrepreneurial performance of Arab citizens of Israel5
Talk the walk: how corporate vision works for performance5
Ride-hailing service platform creation and legitimation: an institutional entrepreneurship perspective5
Psychological perspectives of owner-managers on voluntary retirement5
Times of crisis and new entrepreneurial opportunities in highly regulated environments: the case of mRNA-biotechs during COVID-19 pandemic5
The moderating role of cultural leadership ideals on the relationship between entrepreneurship and life satisfaction5
Resilient SMEs and entrepreneurs: evidence from the UK craft brewing sector5
University spin-offs following acquisitions: the expanding resource-capability chasm5
Directors’ exposure and social enterprise performance: does entrepreneurial mindset and financial resource availability matter?5
Resilience in rural supply chains: the impact of information sharing on responsiveness5
Board's gender diversity and international entrepreneurship: intensity versus quality?5
Relational models and entrepreneurship ecosystems5
Exploring entrepreneurship resilience capabilities during Armageddon: a qualitative study5
Contextual dimensions of family firm legacy: a symbolic approach to social capital5
The effect of breadth of external pressure on leaders in small and medium-sized enterprises: does the firm become more entrepreneurial?5
“Think entrepreneur – think male”: the effect of reduced gender stereotype threat on women's entrepreneurial intention and opportunity motivation5
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