OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Venture Capital 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
How does digital empowerment affect venture capital: an empirical study of Chinese manufacturing listed corporations in Growth Enterprise Market	64
Shared mental models: a new approach to understanding entrepreneurs’ and investors’ representations	26
Married at first sight: the process of trust formation throughout the venture capital process during the time of the COVID-19 crisis	21
How private equity-backed buyout contracts shape corporate governance	13
Linear and non-linear patterns of internationalisation and funding in academic spin-offs	12
Private captive fund providers and the likelihood of achieving successful venture capital exits	12
The power of narrative: engaging different audiences through media content in ICOs	9
The debt-equity choice in crowdfunding: a two-method approach	9
Predicting the Startup Valuation: A deep learning approach	9
Evolution and trends in entrepreneurial finance: reflections and insights from COVID-19	8
SMEs entrepreneurial finance-based digital transformation: towards innovative entrepreneurial finance and entrepreneurial performance	8
Factors influencing US equity-crowdfunded companies’ ability to survive	7
Does writing a business plan still matter for searching and obtaining external equity finance?	7
The impact of an entrepreneurial ecosystem on student entrepreneurship financing: a signaling perspective	7
Corporate venture capital unit governance and firm values	7
The impact mechanism of entrepreneurial competency and entrepreneurial model matching on entrepreneurial performance	6
Women and entrepreneurial finance: a systematic review	6
Challenges to impact investing in a developing country: evidence from Chile	6
Do the relationship paths between capital structure and investment efficiency depend on information asymmetry? A comparison between emerging and developed countries	6
The dark side of initial coin offering: the case of corporate misconduct	6
Have credit risk mitigation warrants eased the difficulty and expensive of financing for private enterprises?	6
Factors influencing the success and failure of crowdfunding campaigns: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis	5
The role of the university entrepreneurial ecosystem in entrepreneurial finance: case studies of UK innovation knowledge centres	5
Entrepreneurs’ human capital and the performance of angel-backed companies	5
Governmental venture capital policies are not all alike: design features in 11 European Countries	5

Financing green innovation startups: a systematic literature review on early-stage SME funding