OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research is 10. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Executive functions: a fresh perspective for entrepreneurship education	281
When does intellectual capital enhance innovation capability? A three-way interaction test	143
Understanding the relevance of family business, gender and value chains for SMEs' innovation in the context of COVID-19	124
Talk the walk: how corporate vision works for performance	79
Digital ethnicity affordances: from a liability to an asset in immigrant entrepreneurship	77
A review of and future research agenda on women entrepreneurship in Africa	70
Reducing early-stage Cleantech funding gaps: an exploration of the role of Environmental Performance Indicators	61
Accelerating alienation: gender and self-efficacy in the accelerator context	59
Intersectionality of place and race: entrepreneurial performance of Arab citizens of Israel	51
Double standards in roadshows: the impact of investors’ dynamic gender-based bias on the financing performance of women entrepreneurs	44
Board's gender diversity and international entrepreneurship: intensity versus quality?	42
The moderating role of individual and social resources in gender effect on entrepreneurial growth aspirations	37
Maintaining life satisfaction when faced with multiple crisis episodes: the role of entrepreneurs’ goal orientation	35
Absorptive capacity in family firms: exploring the role of the CEO	35
Business families do it differently! Navigating cycles and waves of family firm internationalization	34
Low-income logics: institutions' varying impact on entrepreneurship	33
The dynamics of entrepreneurial networking logics: evidence from United Kingdom high-tech start-ups	32
Customer search strategies of entrepreneurial telehealth firms – how effective is effectuation?	32
Resource allocation in healthcare entrepreneurial ecosystems: the strategic role of entrepreneurial support organizations	32
Exploring EO strategic performance measures: value-added versus efficiency outcomes	31
Guest editorial: Emerging issues in digital entrepreneurship – challenges and opportunities	29
Key factors influencing the sustained growth of high-tech SMEs in South Korea: the perspectives of founder owner-managers	29
Entrepreneurial strategic posture and new technology ventures in an emerging economy	29
Aligning strategy and digitalisation activity as an incremental or radical innovation in family farms	28
Dealing with adversity: innovation among small and medium-sized enterprises in developing economies	28

The effect of breadth of external pressure on leaders in small and medium-sized enterprises: does the firm become more entrepreneurial?	27
The moderating role of previous venture experience on breadth of learning and innovation and the impacts on SME performance	27
Community startup businesses: the impact of big five personality traits and social media technology acceptance on group buying leaders	27
Unravelling open innovation determinants and firm performance relationships in CEE and SEE countries	26
Is starting and staying unregistered longer beneficial for firms? The moderating role of institutional quality	25
Legitimizing new constructivist practice for entrepreneurship educators: legitimacy as a framework to examine educators’ new practice in China	25
A pragmatic perspective on social entrepreneurial opportunities	24
Developing intrapreneurial self-efficacy through internships? Investigating agency and structure factors	24
Honest incompetence: exploring the dark side of social entrepreneurship	23
How family firms can avoid the trap of strong social ties and still achieve innovation: critical roles of market orientation and transgenerational intent	23
Role of socioemotional wealth (SEW) in the internationalisation of family firms	22
An action phase theory approach to the configuration of entrepreneurial goal and implementation intentions	22
Effectual control and small firms' international performance: the mediating role of partnership and gaining new knowledge	22
Entrepreneurial decisions: viewing the affordable loss heuristic from an economic well-being perspective	22
Religiosity and resilience in entrepreneurship: uncovering the underlying mechanism through the lens of spiritual capital	22
A knowledge-based perspective on SME foreign market entry mode choices and changes	21
Managerial dynamic capabilities of family firm retail managers: strategic enabling in a context of economic uncertainty	21
Entrepreneurship, subjective risk intelligence and SMEs’ financial stability: evidence from Italy	21
Exploratory and exploitative linkages and innovative activity in the offshore renewable energy sector	21
Interfirm collaboration as a performance-enhancing survival strategy within the business models of ethnic minority-owned urban restaurants affected by COVID-19	20
Culture, Islamic capital and the entrepreneurial behaviour of family firms in Saudi Arabia	20
Reconciling social enterprise: beyond the paradox perspective	20
Forging a collective entrepreneurial identity within existing organizations through corporate venturing	20
Researching entrepreneurship: an approach to develop subjective understanding	19
Strategy creation behaviour and “last gasp” digitalization as predictors of sales performance and cash flow	19
Quality evaluation model of artificial intelligence service for startups	18
Impact of shame on opportunity evaluation and exploitation decisions	18
Female digital entrepreneurship: a structured literature review	18
Start-up funding negotiations with venture capitalists: understanding the behaviors and strategies of experienced entrepreneurs	18
Creating a sustainable ripple in rural entrepreneurship – the case of Deserttulip in resource-constrained rural Jordan	17
Unravelling the entrepreneurial ecosystem conditions spurring the global value chains: a configurational approach	17
Senior entrepreneurship dynamics: Latin America perspective	17
Are social and traditional entrepreneurial intentions really that different?	17
Student venture creation: developing social networks within entrepreneurial ecosystems in the transition from student to entrepreneur	17
Agency in entrepreneurship: preparing entrepreneurship theory for another view of context	16
Identity is a matter of place: intersectional identities of Romanian women migrant entrepreneurs on the Eastern-Western European route	16
A qualitative research study of the tech startup journey through entrepreneurial pivoting	16
Business model pivoting and digital technologies in turbulent environments	16
Rural women entrepreneurs in Oman: problems and opportunities	16
Societal self-control and post-exit entrepreneurial intentions	16
Trigger points and high growth firms: the vital role of founder “sensing” and “seizing” capabilities	16
Learning to not belong: entrepreneurial learning experiences of women high-tech entrepreneurs	15
Authentic passion matters: the role of emotional labor between presenters' passion and investment decision	15
“Think entrepreneur – think male”: the effect of reduced gender stereotype threat on women's entrepreneurial intention and opportunity motivation	15
Beyond the land of the living death: early-stage transformational entrepreneurs in digital healthcare as liminality navigator	15
Enacting disruption: how entrepreneurial ventures innovate value propositions to increase the attractiveness of their technologies	15
Enablers of students' entrepreneurial intentions: findings from PLS-SEM and fsQCA	14
How is entrepreneurial marketing shaped by E-commerce technology: a case study of Chinese pure-play e-retailers	14
Explaining differences in entrepreneurial activity between immigrants and natives: moderating roles of economic, sociocultural and institutional factors	14
Navigating the new frontier: the impact of artificial intelligence on students’ entrepreneurial competencies	14

ICT resources and use: examining differences in pathways to improved small firm performance	14
Interlinking institutions, entrepreneurship and economic performance	14
Perceiving and accessing resources in uncertain environments: insights from waste collection ventures in Burkina Faso	13
Taken for granted or wilfully ignored? Seeking legitimacy for the entrepreneurship educator	13
The influence of institutional and in-group collectivism practices on next-generation engagement in the family business	13
Mumpreneurs’ decision-making when facing uncertainty and competing goals	13
Relational models and entrepreneurship ecosystems	13
The effects of neurodiversity on cognitive attributes of entrepreneurs	13
Who is the entrepreneurial educator? A transferability perspective to tease out antecedents needed to form a signature pedagogy	13
Artificial intelligence as an enabler for entrepreneurs: a systematic literature review and an agenda for future research	13
Psychological time of green entrepreneurs: a mixed methods study of SMEs	12
Citizenship behavior and new venture survival: a cultural tightness-looseness capabilities lens	12
Gender and entrepreneurial intention in low-income countries: the relative roles played by anticipated financial returns versus perceived barriers for university students in Sierra Leone	12
Cultural intelligence, entrepreneurial intentions and the moderating role of the institutional environment	12
Designing AI implications in the venture creation process	12
Developing social entrepreneurship through public procurement: a wicked problem!	12
Coopetition and the marketing/entrepreneurship interface in an international arena	12
Do camouflage signals impact performance in reward-based crowdfunding?	12
The influence of family firm succession on financialisaton: evidence from China	12
Social problem scale, public investment and social entrepreneurship action	12
Exploring entrepreneurs' business-related social media typologies: a latent class analysis approach	12
Institutional theory and institutional racism: barriers to business success faced by POC entrepreneurs and the family firm advantage	12
Assessing the factors of sustainable entrepreneurial attitude in context of educational institutions: AHP and DEMATEL approach	11
Entrepreneurial well-being of expatriate entrepreneurs: self and world	11
Patent uncertainty and survival: a longitudinal study of a Chinese knowledge-based international new venture	11
Gender stereotype perception, perceived social support and self-efficacy in increasing women's entrepreneurial intentions	11
Intergenerational succession and corporate philanthropy: a stakeholder perspective	11
Directors’ exposure and social enterprise performance: does entrepreneurial mindset and financial resource availability matter?	11
With a little help from my friends: the interaction between coopetition, an entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance	11
Entrepreneurial business network and dynamic relational capabilities: a case study approach	11
Meandering pathways to success: a careers perspective on self-employment	11
The everyday female entrepreneur and the pursuit of emancipation	11
How open innovation can help entrepreneurs in sensing and seizing entrepreneurial opportunities in SMEs	11
Subsistence entrepreneurship and intersectional inequalities: a case study of women from Pakistani urban-poor districts	10
Antecedents of entrepreneurial intention in an international business environment: a gender comparison	10
Nudging digital entrepreneurs: the influence of the Google Play Store top developer award on technological innovation	10
Identities and the pursuit of legitimacy: A study of black women wine industry entrepreneurs	10
Building self-determination of disadvantaged groups: insights from an entrepreneurship focused program for refugees	10
Institutional pluralism and the implementation of women’s enterprise policy	10
Exploring the impact of family and organisational values on competence diversity reluctance in rural family SMEs	10
The synergistic impact of market and technology orientations on sustainable innovation performance: evidence from manufacturing firms	10
The impact of entrepreneurial passion on entrepreneurial success and psychological well-being: a person-centered investigation	10
An exploration of changing student entrepreneurial motivators – a longitudinal analysis	10
Entrepreneurial ecosystem of startups in Bangladesh: mechanism of balanced coexistence	10
Entrepreneurs' gender and small business going green	10
Religiosity and entrepreneurship: women entrepreneurs in Turkiye	10
Religion, personality traits and the nature of entrepreneurial activities: insights from Scottish Muslim entrepreneurs	10
Shaping the social orientation of academic entrepreneurship: an exploratory study	10
Developing entrepreneurial resilience from uncertainty as usual: a learning theory approach on readiness, response and opportunity	10
Hybrid entrepreneurship, job satisfaction and the spillover effect of creativity	10
Contextualising gender policy in tech entrepreneurship: a cross national and multiple-level analysis	10
Dynamic capabilities configurations: the firm lifecycle and the interplay of DC dimensions	10