OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 12. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	308
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	184
The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance	94
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	93
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	74
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	54
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	52
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	49
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	46
Marketing agility and financial performance in migrant enterprises during crises: Does resilience capability matter?	44
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	43
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	42
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	39
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	38
Are social and traditional entrepreneurial intentions really that different?	38
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	35
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	34
Parents' support for children's entrepreneurial behavior: incentivizing the next generation of entrepreneurs	33
Too emotional to succeed: entrepreneurial narratives in a prosocial setting	32
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	32
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	31
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	29
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	28
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	28
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	27

The synergistic impact of market and technology orientations on sustainable innovation performance: evidence from manufacturing firms	27
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	27
Entrepreneurial approach for open innovation: opening new opportunities, mapping knowledge and highlighting gaps	26
How small organisations develop sustainability-oriented strategies: evidence from northwest Himalayas	26
A configurational perspective on comparative international entrepreneurship: a new approach to examining entrepreneurial activity combining clustering and qualitative comparative analysis	26
A personal values view of international entrepreneurial intention	26
A new approach to entrepreneurship and regional development: key roles of purpose and well-being in the Swansea Bay City Region	25
Talking with venture capitalists: gender perceptions in investment decisions	24
Beyond the short-term: the effects of broad-based employee ownership on labor productivity in family and nonfamily firms	24
Innovativeness and start-up performance: a configurational analysis of relational factors	24
The socioemotional wealth of leaders in family firm succession and corporate governance processes: a systematic literature review	24
Entrepreneurial orientation, proactive market orientation and society: evidence from public service organizations in Brazil	24
Advancing the institutional perspective on informal entrepreneurship: a study of formalization intentions among street entrepreneurs	23
When there is a crisis, there is an opportunity? SMEs' capabilities for durability and opportunity confidence	22
Dissecting the effect of family business exposure on entrepreneurial implementation intention	22
Examining the relationship between team-level entrepreneurial orientation and team performance	22
How does international entrepreneurial orientation influence firms' internationalization? An exploration with Indian software product top management teams	22
IoT-based entrepreneurial opportunities in smart transportation: a multidimensional framework	21
Guest editorial: New technologies and entrepreneurship: exploring entrepreneurial behavior in the digital transformation era	21
What lies beneath: using student reflections to study the entrepreneurial mindset in entrepreneurship education	21
Career shock and the impact of stress, emotional exhaustion, and resources on entrepreneurial career commitment during the COVID-19 pandemic	21
The academic, the entrepreneur, the female in a dress: a micro-level exploration of multiple role identities	21
Impact of founder controls on digital transformation: evidence from listed family firms in China	21
Later-working-life social entrepreneurial identities: a dynamic self-categorisation framework	20
The non-bank lending channel: an important substitute for SME bank debt	20
The provenance and effects of entrepreneurial inspiration	20
What lies behind entrepreneurial intentions? Exploring nascent entrepreneurs’ early belief systems	20
Corporate entrepreneurship champions: mapping the past and present states of the field for future advancements	20
Exploring causal recipes of startup acceptance into business incubators: a cross-country study	19
Unearthing the multidimensional roles of place attachment in sustainable entrepreneurship: a longitudinal study of an ethnic minority entrepreneur in the UK	19
For love or money? The effect of deadline proximity on completion contributions in online crowdfunding	19
Organizational justice and employee entrepreneurial intentions in South Africa	19
Professionalization in family businesses: the role of leadership style	18
Entrepreneurial orientation and knowledge management: comparing configurations of native and immigrant entrepreneurial firms	18
The impact of bridging social capital in family firms' performance: exploring the mediation role of successor's social skills	18
Guest editorial: Innovative knowledge: global sustainable business	18
Does digital governance bridge the entrepreneurship gender gap contingent on regulatory burden?	18
Internal R&D or external asset growth? A closer look at CEO narcissism and entrepreneurial orientation	17
Privileged core-state migrant entrepreneurs in Poland: an ethnic economy in reverse?	17
Guest editorial: Inequalities in entrepreneurship opportunities: the intersectionality of contexts, situatedness, positionalities and identities	17
Navigating gender and culture in constructing network ties: perceptions and behaviors of women founders in Jordanian digital businesses	17
Ethnicity and the role of the founders' human and social capital in technology-based ventures	17
Is academic spin-off financing a matter of business and growth models? The Spanish case	17
Stay alert, save businesses. Planning for adversity among immigrant entrepreneurs	17
The contingent interplay between resources, entrepreneurship and agribusiness performance among small-scale agri-food actors	16
Developing the future scholarship of entrepreneurship education: exploring educator authenticity through practice and identity—celebrating 10 years of the 3E conference	16
Intra-family succession and firm’s internationalization: a network-based resource perspective	16
How organizational readiness for digital innovation shapes digital business model innovation in family businesses	16
An emotional learning process? The role of socially induced and regulated emotions for the development of an entrepreneurial mindset	16
Healthcare entrepreneurship: current trends and future directions	16

Beyond the land of the living death: early-stage transformational entrepreneurs in digital healthcare as liminality navigator	16
Religiosity and entrepreneurship: women entrepreneurs in Turkiye	16
The impact of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being: a person-centered investigation	16
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs	16
Entrepreneurial orientation in family firms: the effects of long-term orientation	16
Business model pivoting and digital technologies in turbulent environments	16
How is entrepreneurial marketing shaped by E-commerce technology: a case study of Chinese pure-play e-retailers	16
Entrepreneurial business network and dynamic relational capabilities: a case study approach	16
Refugee entrepreneurship from an intersectional approach	16
Entrepreneurship by indigenous people in Canada and Australia: diverse modes and community implications	15
To persist or not to persist: understanding student team responses to effectuation in the higher education classroom	15
The effects of neurodiversity on cognitive attributes of entrepreneurs	15
The malleability of international entrepreneurial cognitions: a natural quasi-experimental study on voluntary and involuntary shocks	15
Who is the entrepreneurial educator? A transferability perspective to tease out antecedents needed to form a signature pedagogy	15
Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation	15
Digital technologies, social entrepreneurship and resilience during crisis in developing countries: evidence from Nigeria	15
The influence of digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial orientation on intention of family businesses to adopt artificial intelligence: examining the mediating role of business innovativeness	14
The secrets to successful entrepreneurship: how occupational experience shapes the creation and performance of start-ups	14
Strategies to evoke entrepreneurial behavior in middle managers: involvement in strategy development and the creation of psychological ownership	14
Women's contributions to rural development: implications for entrepreneurship policy	14
Guest editorial: From family entrepreneurship to family entrepreneuring	14
Survival strategies adopted by microbusinesses during COVID-19: an exploration of ethnic minority restaurants in northern Finland	14
Cognitive factors in discouraged borrowers: how entrepreneur's perception affects borrowing discouragement	14
Predictions through Lean startup? Harnessing AI-based predictions under uncertainty	14
The influence of entrepreneurial culture and organizational learning on entrepreneurial orientation: the case of new technology-based firms in Iran	14
Open innovation pathway to firm performance: the role of dynamic marketing capability in Malaysian entrepreneurial firms	14
Mitigating the lack of prior entrepreneurial experience and exposure through entrepreneurship education programs	13
The life expectancy of tech start-ups in India: what attributes impact tech start-ups' failures?	13
Does social performance contribute to economic performance of social enterprises? The role of social enterprise reputation building	13
I'll be there for you: coopetition and competitor-oriented activities among South Asian restaurants in two UK regional clusters	13
Analysing the relevance of value creation in the interconnection amongst entrepreneurship, marketing and innovation: a systematic literature review	13
Entrepreneurship, innovation, digitization and digital transformation toward a sustainable growth within the pandemic environment	13
The mediating role of planned behaviour in the religiosity and nascent entrepreneurship nexus	13
Exploring the emancipatory role of entrepreneurship in a developing context	13
Digital entrepreneurship in agrifood business: a resource bricolage perspective	13
Digital entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education: a review of the literature	13
Accelerating start-ups' leap to unicorns: the role of founders' ambidextrous orientation	13
Editorial: Entrepreneurial learning: a situated and contextual process	13
From immigrants to local entrepreneurs: understanding the effects of migration on entrepreneurship in a highly informal country	12
Island entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystems: current debates and future research directions	12
Resource configurations among digital academic spin-offs: finding the technology-market fit	12
An exploration of the applicability of Lean Startup in small non-digital firms: an effectuation perspective	12
Work engagement among different types of solo self-employed: the mediating role of intrinsic job resources	12
Pre-seed grant as an enabler of learning	12
How to secure an innovation grant for firms in new industries? Gender and resource perspectives	12
CEO successions in times of decline and prosperity: restoring aspiration and performance implications in family firms	12
A quantitative study on crowdfunders' motivations, their sense of meaning and social welfare	12
Guest editorial: Innovative entrepreneurial behavior vs entrepreneurial activity in today's business environment	12