The Entrepreneurial Team: A Metanalytic Review, Framework, Problematization and Future Research Agenda

Abstract

The entrepreneurial team has become an integral topic of entrepreneurship research. Despite the fact that this theme has been broadly and seriously contemplated by researchers from different territories, for example, strategic management, organization behavior, psychology, economics, finance, sociology etc., a synthesis of this diverse stream of research is lacking. This paper endeavors such a synthesis here by taking a multi-disciplinary viewpoint on entrepreneurial teams with the end goal of cultivating further entrepreneurship research in this area. A wide ranging literature search led to the development of an overarching research system enabling the classification of a vast array of literature. From this framework a literature criticism is carried out with particular emphasis on entrepreneurship and strategic management studies. Key conceptual and methodological issues are acknowledged and discussed. Suggestions for future research on entrepreneurial teams are offered.