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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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Articles resulting from co-citation analysis
Article | Citations | Mean Citations per year |
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Busenitz LW. West GP. Shepherd D. Nelson T. Chandler GN. Zacharakis A. 2003. Entrepreneurship Research in Emergence: Past trends and future directions. Journal of Management. 29 (3): 285–308. | 193 | 17.5 |
Alvarez SA. Barney J.B. 2007. Discovery and creation: alternative theories of entrepreneurial action. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 26 (3): 11–26. | 138 | 19.7 |
Markman GD. Phan PH. Balkin DB. Gianiodis PT. 2005. Entrepreneurship and university-based technology transfer. Journal of Business Venturing. 20(2): 241–263. | 96 | 10.7 |
Holmes TJ. Schmitz JA. 1990. A Theory of Entrepreneurship and Its Application to the Study of Business Transfer, Journal of Political Economy. 98(2): 265. | 86 | 3.6 |
Acs, ZJ. Braunerhjelm P. Audretsch DB. Carlsson B. 2009. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics. 32 (1): 15–30. | 83 | 16.6 |
Audretsch DB. Lehmann EE. 2005. Does the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship hold for regions? Research Policy. 34 (8): 1191–1202. | 77 | 8.6 |
Weerawardena J. Mort GS. 2006. Investigating social entrepreneurship: A multidimensional model. Journal of World Business. 41(1): 21–35. | 76 | 9.5 |
Amit R. Glosten L. Muller E. 1993. Challenges to theory development in entrepreneurship research. Journal of Management Studies. 30 (5): 815–834. | 73 | 3.5 |
Baumol WJ. 1993. Formal entrepreneurship theory in economics—existence and bounds. Journal of Business Venturing. 8(3):197–210. | 72 | 3.4 |
Bull I. Willard GE. 1993. Towards a theory of entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing. 8(3): 183–195. | 68 | 3.2 |
Douglas EJ. Shepherd DA. 2000. Entrepreneurship as a utility maximizing response. Journal of Business Venturing. 15(3): 231–251. | 53 | 3.8 |
Herron L. Robinson RB. 1993. A structural model of the effects of entrepreneurial characteristics on venture performance. Journal of Business Venturing. 8(3): 281–294. | 53 | 2.5 |
Miner JB. Raju NS. 2004. Risk propensity differences between managers and entrepreneurs and between low- and high-growth entrepreneurs: A reply in a more conservative vein. Journal of Applied Psychology. 89(1): 3–13. | 53 | 5.3 |
Gartner WB. Shane SA. 1995. Measuring entrepreneurship over time. Journal of business venturing. 10(4): 283–301. | 51 | 2.7 |
Audretsch DB. Keilbach M. 2007. The theory of knowledge spillover entrepreneurship, Journal of Management Studies. 44 (7): 1242–1254. | 44 | 6.3 |
Webb JW. Tihanyi L. Ireland RD. Sirmon DG. 2009. You say illegal, I say legitimate: entrepreneurship in the informal economy. Academy of Management Review. 34(3): 492–510 | 41 | 8.2 |
Bygrave WD. 1993. Theory building in the entrepreneurship paradigm. Journal of Business Venturing. 8(3): 255–280. | 40 | 1.9 |
Foss NJ. Klein PG. Kor YY. Mahoney JT. 2008. Entrepreneurship, subjectivism, and the resource-based view: toward a new synthesis. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 2 (1): 73–94. | 39 | 6.5 |
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Ferreira, J.J.M., Fernandes, C.I. & Kraus, S. Entrepreneurship research: mapping intellectual structures and research trends. Rev Manag Sci 13, 181–205 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-017-0242-3
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Keywords
- Entrepreneurship theories
- Bibliometrics
- Citation analysis
- Multi-dimensional scaling analysis
- Cluster analysis
- Co-citations
- Article impact