Bibliometric analysis of entrepreneurial orientation

PurposeThe remarkable concept of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has attracted scholars’ attention for its relevance to a firm’s performance. Based on bibliometric and distance-based visualization of similarities (VOS) analysis, the purpose of this paper is to outline a broad-spectrum perspective o...

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Published inWorld journal of entrepreneurship, management and sustainable development Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 45 - 69
Main Authors Andrade-Valbuena, Nelson A, Merigo-Lindahl, Jose M, Sergio Olavarrieta S
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Brighton World Association for Sustainable Development 21.02.2019
Subjects
Bibliometrics
Customer relationship management
Economic development
Entrepreneurs
Family owned businesses
Knowledge management
Small business
Social entrepreneurship
Strategic management
United Kingdom > UK
Wales
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Summary:PurposeThe remarkable concept of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has attracted scholars’ attention for its relevance to a firm’s performance. Based on bibliometric and distance-based visualization of similarities (VOS) analysis, the purpose of this paper is to outline a broad-spectrum perspective of the structure of research in EO across more than 20 years of publications, identifying the most prominent journals, authors and articles in this field.Design/methodology/approachThe paper uses the Web of Science Core Collection and the VOS viewer software. The analysis searches for all the documents connected to EO available in the database from 1976 to 2017. The graphical visualization maps the bibliographic data using both bibliographic coupling and co-citation data.FindingsEntrepreneurship Theory and Practice Journal, Journal of Business Venturing and Family Business Review are the most relevant journals in the field. Among the many important authors in the EO literature, key contributors are Lumpkin, Payne, Short, Covin, Dess and Wiklund. Three different streams of research are linked to the EO concept; strategy and entrepreneurship, family business and miscellaneous work in psychometrics, methods, marketing and knowledge/capability-based approaches to organizations.Originality/valueThis paper contributes to EO research by providing a global perspective on the concept’s investigation, using bibliometric data and graphical networks.
ISSN:2042-5961
2042-597X
DOI:10.1108/WJEMSD-08-2017-0048