Vol. 12 No. 2 (2024): Business & Management Studies: An International Journal
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Entrepreneurial competencies in the success of enterprises: A bibliometric analysis of the publications in the field

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  • Nezahat Koçyiğit,
  • Esra Yıldız,
  • Turgut Emre Akyazı
Nezahat Koçyiğit
Assoc. Prof., Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Türkiye
Esra Yıldız
Assist. Prof., Karamanoğlu Mehmetbey University, Karaman, Türkiye
Turgut Emre Akyazı
Lect. Dr., Aksaray University, Aksaray, Türkiye
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v12i2.2390

Published 2024-06-25

Keywords

  • Girişimcilik, Girişimcilik Yetkinlikleri, Performans, Bibliyometrik Analiz, VOSviewer
  • Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Competencies, Performance, Bibliometric Analysis, VOSviewer

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Koçyiğit, N., Yıldız, E., & Akyazı, T. E. (2024). Entrepreneurial competencies in the success of enterprises: A bibliometric analysis of the publications in the field. Business & Management Studies: An International Journal, 12(2), 315–328. https://doi.org/10.15295/bmij.v12i2.2390

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Abstract

There has been an acceleration in competence-based management in recent years, which has, in turn, influenced entrepreneurial success by strengthening entrepreneurial competencies. This study aims to analyse and predict the future of the research on entrepreneurial competencies using bibliometric methods. For this purpose, VOSviewer software was used for co-word analysis. Bibliometric methods such as citation analysis and co-author analysis were used to analyse the studies related to entrepreneurial competencies. It was found that most publications were published in 2019 based on a search in the Web of Science database between 1995 and 2023. The analysis of 1403 publications revealed that 460 proceeding papers, 10 early access and 210 book chapters were involved in the search. After reducing the set to include articles, 914 papers were evaluated. Results show that the authors most cited over the years are Lans Thomas, Al Mamun Abdullah, Mulder Martin, and Obschonka. Furthermore, it was found that Spain had the highest number of published works, followed by China and the USA respectively. Study findings also revealed that entrepreneurial competencies are more related to core, emotional, and network competencies and sustainable development, creativity, innovation, social capital, and higher education.

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