Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities with Bibliometric Analysis Approach (2000-2022)

Subject Areas : Public Policy In Administration

Shiva Mehdizadeh Aghdam ¹ , Jahangir Yadollahi Farsi ² , narges Imanipour ³

1 - Department of entrepreneurship, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship Development, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-03-14 Accepted : 2022-04-19 Published : 2023-01-21

Keywords: Entrepreneurship Opportunities, Opportunity evaluation, document co-citation analysis, Citation analysis,

Abstract :

Background: Many entrepreneurial decisions depend on opportunity evaluation, the cornerstone of entrepreneurship. Time constraints and limited resources indicate the need to evaluate opportunities for entrepreneurial success. Misdiagnosis leads to a waste of time, energy, and resources and increases the likelihood of failure.Objective: By reviewing the previous literature, this article examines research topics and theoretical foundations to evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities and ways to pursue different concepts.Methods: To improve the structure and content of this field, a variety of different concepts is provided by bibliometric analysis.Findings: Creating new insights into evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities and how to study them and previous research findings with a systematic, quantitative and holistic review. Bibliographic analysis in this research is used for future research orientations for developing literature evaluating entrepreneurial opportunities and creating a future research program to promote this field.Conclusion: Our results are in two parts. First, we present the statistical analysis of the bibliographic data set and explain the effect of co-citation analysis and clustering. Second, we categorize and review the conceptual definitions of opportunity evaluation based on their approach.

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