International entrepreneurship: a bibliometric overview

Baier-Fuentes, Hugo; Merigó, José M.; Amorós, José Ernesto; Gaviria-Marín, Magaly

doi:10.1007/s11365-017-0487-y

Published: 06 January 2018

International entrepreneurship: a bibliometric overview

Hugo Baier-Fuentes ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-6436-1222¹,
José M. Merigó²,
José Ernesto Amorós³ &
Magaly Gaviria-Marín⁴

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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the academic research on International Entrepreneurship (IE). To accomplish this, an exhaustive bibliometric analysis was carried out, involving a bibliometric performance analysis and a graphic mapping of the references in this field. Our analysis focuses on journals, papers, authors, institutions and countries. To perform the performance analysis, the work uses a series of bibliometric indicators such as h-index, productivity and citations. Furthermore, the VOS viewer to graphically map the bibliographic material is used. The graphical analysis uses co-citation, bibliographic coupling and co-occurrence of keywords. The results of both analyzes are consistent among them, and show that the USA is the most influential country in IE research as it houses the main authors and institutions in this research field. Moreover, is observed and expected the continued growth of the field globally. Our research plays an informative and complementary role as it presents most of the key aspects in International Entrepreneurship research.

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Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Av. Alonso de Ribera 2850, 4070129, Concepción, Chile
Hugo Baier-Fuentes
Department of Management Control and Information Systems, University of Chile, Av. Diagonal Paraguay 257, 8330015, Santiago, Chile
José M. Merigó
EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Av. Carlos Lazo 100, Santa Fe, 01389, Mexico City, Mexico
José Ernesto Amorós
Department of Economics and Business Organization, University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 690, 08034, Barcelona, Spain
Magaly Gaviria-Marín

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Baier-Fuentes, H., Merigó, J.M., Amorós, J.E. et al. International entrepreneurship: a bibliometric overview. Int Entrep Manag J 15, 385–429 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11365-017-0487-y

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