Deriving the Recent Themes of Entrepreneurship through a Meta-Review

Abstract

The objective of this study was to conduct a meta-review of the literature of the field of Entrepreneurship and Strategy to derive the themes that exist in the recent times. Ninety-four articles relevant to the area were taken from eight leading peer-reviewed journals of the field and analysed, from which we defined several themes, which when bound together, provide a comprehensive view of the inclinations of researchers in this field. From this review, we come to understand that four areas or themes are at the forefront of research, namely, entrepreneurial entry, entrepreneurial exits, entrepreneurial spinouts and social entrepreneurship. Second to these are areas like entrepreneurial finance and venture performance evaluation. This meta-review hopes to provide future studies with the choice of research themes to study as well as provide entrepreneurs a theoretical prescription for their motivations.