Mapping the evolution of entrepreneurship as a field of research (1990-2013): A scientometric analysis.

ABSTRACT: This article applies scientometric techniques to study the evolution of the field of entrepreneurship between 1990 and 2013. Using a combination of topic mapping, author and journal co-citation analyses, and overlay visualization of new and hot topics in the field, this article makes important contribution to the entrepreneurship research by identifying 46 topics in the 24-year history of entrepreneurship research and demonstrates how they appear, disappear, reappear and stabilize over time. It also identifies five topics that are persistent across the 24-year study period--institutions and institutional entrepreneurship, innovation and technology management, policy and development, entrepreneurial process and opportunity, and new ventures--which I labeled as The Pentagon of Entrepreneursh

SUBMITTER: Chandra Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5754054 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature