State of the art on the theme entrepreneurship

• Autor(a) principal: da Rosa, Luciana Aparecida Barbieri
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Gomes, Clandia Maffini, Perlin, Ana Paula, Motke, Francies Diego, Frizzo, Kamila
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Ciências Administrativas (Fortaleza. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.unifor.br/rca/article/view/4002

This article analyzed the characteristics of publications related to the topic Entrepreneurship. The research was conducted in the database Web of Science ISI Web of Knowledge, trying to identify the main subject areas, authors, types of documents, title of the sources, year of publications, institutions, languages and countries these publications, as well as the identification the “hot topics” and the most cited publications with authors who publish in the researched topic. Data analysis was based on the index calculations h-b and m of Banks (2006). According to the results of this study, it was found that the number of articles published in the period between 2005 and 2014, increased gradually over the period analyzed, focusing on the United States to lead the publications written in English with the main source the journal Small Business Economics, Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Among the 20 topics combined with the theme researched Entrepreneurship stood out as “hot topics” the Strategy themes, Innovation, Networking, Social Business. In this sense it denotes that the issue involving the Entrepreneurship is of great importance, with major challenges as regards the development of studies that address primarily the areas of management, innovation, social and environmental aspects. Keywords: Entrepreneurship. Bibliometric research. Web of Science.