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Entrepreneurship research: mapping intellectual structures and research trends

Authors: João J. M. Ferreira, Cristina I. Fernandes, Sascha Kraus

Published in: Review of Managerial Science | Issue 1/2019

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Using bibliometric techniques to identify connections between existing entrepreneurship studies, this article seeks to understand the scientific structure of entrepreneurship research and how entrepreneurship scholarship is organized. Co-citation data and quantitative approach were used to identify scientific publications, intellectual structures, and research trends interrelated with theories of innovative entrepreneurship. Data were gathered from the citations and co-citations found in the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Our research reveals six groups of underlying entrepreneurship theories: (1) knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, (2) creation and networks theory, (3) decision-making theory, (4) specialization of labor, (5) social entrepreneurship theory, and (6) entrepreneurship in the informal economy.

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Title: Entrepreneurship research: mapping intellectual structures and research trends
Authors: João J. M. Ferreira
Cristina I. Fernandes
Sascha Kraus
Publication date: 09-06-2017
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Review of Managerial Science / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1863-6683
Electronic ISSN: 1863-6691
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-017-0242-3

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