OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Venture Capital is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Private captive fund providers and the likelihood of achieving successful venture capital exits	64
Linear and non-linear patterns of internationalisation and funding in academic spin-offs	27
Factors influencing the success and failure of crowdfunding campaigns: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis	23
Getting some fuel from incumbents: bank-FinTech relationships and effects on newcomers’ performance	19
Financing entrepreneurial activity in Uruguay: time to default in a public microcredit institution	14
Lifespans of corporate and independent venture capitalists: a systematic review	14
What do we know about startup-valuation drivers? A systematic literature review	12
The role of personality traits in entrepreneurial finance	12
Entrepreneurial finance, agency problems and Islamic ethics: complementarities and constraints	11
University venture capital in big data, regional and historical perspective: where and why has it arisen?	10
Venture capital investment selection: an exploratory assessment of the role of entrepreneur personality traits	10
What entrepreneurial skills are the key to startup finance performance?	9
The role of entrepreneur’s experience and company control in influencing the credibility of passion as a signal in equity crowdfunding	9
How does digital empowerment affect venture capital: an empirical study of Chinese manufacturing listed corporations in Growth Enterprise Market	8
Syndication networks and company survival: evidence from European venture capital deals	8
The power of narrative: engaging different audiences through media content in ICOs	8
Governmental venture capital policies are not all alike: design features in 11 European Countries	7
Predicting the Startup Valuation: A deep learning approach	7
The moment is now! From digital transformation to environmental performance	7
Private equity, venture capital and patents: a bibliometric review and future research	6
Social impact venture capital investing: an explorative study	6
The role of actively open-minded thinking and control orientation in venture capital investment outcomes	6
Financing green innovation startups: a systematic literature review on early-stage SME funding	6
Compensation incentive, misappropriation risk, and startup innovation: the role of corporate venture capital manager in resource transfer	6
Venture capital and environmental information disclosure by small and medium-sized enterprises in China: a stakeholder theory perspective	6

Evolution and trends in entrepreneurial finance: reflections and insights from COVID-19	5
Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises’ need for digitization to counteract COVID-19: From “nice-to-have” to “must-have”?	5
The impact of concentration among venture capitalists: revisiting the determinants of venture capital	5
The impact of time constraints on new venture investment decisions: an experimental study	5
Does writing a business plan still matter for searching and obtaining external equity finance?	5
Informal venture capital in emerging economies: a case of Pakistan	5
The debt-equity choice in crowdfunding: a two-method approach	4
When personality pays: observer rating of personality and financial success of equity crowdfunded startups	4
Prior co-investments and exits: a study on European venture capital syndicates	4
The impact of sudden public events and fiscal policy relief on the financing constraints of small and medium enterprises: a quasi-natural experiment during COVID-19	4
Shared mental models: a new approach to understanding entrepreneurs’ and investors’ representations	4
Women and entrepreneurial finance: a systematic review	4
Lexical sophistication and crowdfunding outcomes	4
The dark side of initial coin offering: the case of corporate misconduct	4
The impact mechanism of entrepreneurial competency and entrepreneurial model matching on entrepreneurial performance	4
Entrepreneurial firm creation and economic uncertainty: an explainable artificial intelligence approach	4
Business angels investing in green ventures: how do they add value to their start-ups?	4
Retrospective overview of the journal venture capital using bibliometric approach	3
ICOs after the decline: a literature review and recommendations for a sustainable development	3
How intuition works in venture investment: the holistic effect on decision making	3
How private equity-backed buyout contracts shape corporate governance	3
Beyond market failure: rationales for regional governmental venture capital	3
“In this together”: on the antecedents and implications of crowdfunding community identification and trust	3
The impact of an entrepreneurial ecosystem on student entrepreneurship financing: a signaling perspective	3
Climate issues in portfolio investment decisions: a comparison of Private equity and venture capital	3
Does financial inclusion build the financial resilience of elderly women?	3
Nascent entrepreneurship in university students: the role of the context	3
SMEs entrepreneurial finance-based digital transformation: towards innovative entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial performance	3