Ten Years of Entrepreneurship Studies: Themes, Concepts and Relationships

This study examined the critical themes of intellectual structure of entrepreneurship studies in the last decade with citation/co-citation and social network analysis. By analyzing 89,984 citations of 2,179 articles published in SSCI journals in entrepreneurship area between 2000 and 2009, this study maps the knowledge network of entrepreneurship studies. The results of this study suggest that the critical themes of entrepreneurship research in the last decade are organized along different concentration of interests: characteristics of entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, determinants of entrepreneurial activities, new venture creation, and organization development