A review of the literature was conducted followed by scientometric analysis. Nominal group technique (NGT) was used to identify major barriers to the entrepreneurial intentions of women. Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was then applied by taking advice from 13 experts including entrepreneurs to prioritize the barriers and finally necessary prescriptions were suggested. The purpose of this study is to identify the important terms used by earlier researchers, map the terms into various topics of barriers and finally prioritize the major barriers to the entrepreneurial intentions of women to facilitate finding necessary solutions. The findings bring to light 3 important categories of barrier and 12 sub‐barriers. Lack of self‐confidence, economic barriers, and women status and rights and were the most influential individual barrier, contextual barrier, and sociocultural barrier with a priority of 58.6, 51.1, and 54.7% in their own categories, respectively. The technique of Scientometric analysis has been less explored in the domain of barriers to entrepreneurial intentions of women and to the best of the knowledge of the authors, no earlier researcher has attempted to use the technique of scientometric analysis, NGT, and AHP in combination. The findings will help better access the prioritized barriers which need immediate attention of the policymaking bodies. Government, as well as industrial policymakers, can implement the identified counteracting practices to barriers of entrepreneurial intentions of women to obtain optimum results and smooth functioning of the companies.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyze the entrepreneurial intentions (EI) of women to better understand the cognition process of women which will help to identify the reason for their inadequate participation in the field of entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach This study follows the method of a traditional literature survey followed by scientometric analysis to identify the primary factors to the EI of women. The factors obtained from the literature review were provided to the nominal group, and the process of nominal group technique (NGT) was carried out to frame a research framework. The factors were then ranked based on their significance using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), taking into consideration the review of experts. Findings Among the primary factors, personal factors were found to be the most influential factors and weighted 54%. Self-efficacy was found to be the most prominent secondary variable and had a global weight of 22.14%. Research limitations/implications The research outcome has implications for policymaking bodies, investors, academicians and potential women entrepreneurs. Future researchers can apply exploratory research methods and confirmatory research methods to test the research framework. Originality/value Very few researchers have used the technique of scientometric analysis for the review of literature on EI of women, and to the best of the authors’ knowledge, no earlier researcher has attempted to use the technique of NGT or AHP after scientometric analysis.

Entrepreneurial intentions research has been steadily growing and has recently gained more momentum in the twenty-first century. But the field of women entrepreneurial intentions is still in a very nascent stage and lots of research work needs to be done on the entrepreneurial intentions of women. This study attempts to review the literature on entrepreneurial intentions of women and provide necessary actions to be taken. The purpose of this study is to identify the main sub-areas on which women entrepreneurial intentions research is being conducted by the researchers. The Author uses citation analysis as a tool for identifying the fields attracting the maximum attention of researchers and content analysis to find out the gist of research in each sub-area. Cross referencing method was also used to find the papers in the field that proved most impactful and have made significant changes in the advancement of the field. Each paper was analyzed in terms of its objectives, findings, and future scope. The study presents an insight of the area from the review. It also highlights the major gaps identified from academic literature.

PurposeThe purpose of this article is to (1) map the most important topics in the domain of sustainable business practices for entrepreneurial firms in emerging countries, (2) identify important terms in the various dimensions of sustainability in business and (3) identify the important practices and prioritize the practices.Design/methodology/approachThis study has adopted a unique methodology that combines state-of-art scientometric analysis with the fuzzy nominal group technique (NGT) and fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL). Results obtained from the co-occurrence analysis in scientometrics were further mapped through NGT to obtain the list of the most important topics in the domain. The factors affecting sustainable business practices obtained through topic mapping were analyzed through fuzzy DEMATEL to obtain the cause-and-effect relation of variables.FindingsThe scale of firms, leadership, uncertainty, gender, country/location, education and tourism were found to be the factors affecting the sustainable business practices of entrepreneurial firms. The sustainable business practices for entrepreneurial firms were (1) innovation, (2) resilience, (3) policy, (4) business ethics and virtue ethics, (5) business model, (6) upcycling and value creation, (7) collaboration and (8) triple bottom line.Practical implicationsPolicymakers in entrepreneurial firms, as well as other organizations, can implement the identified sustainable business practices to obtain optimum results and smooth functioning of the companies. The research framework obtained can be tested using exploratory methods.Originality/valueVery few researchers have used the technique of scientometric analysis to identify the sustainable business practices of entrepreneurial firms, and to the best of the knowledge of the authors, no earlier researcher has attempted to use the technique of topic mapping, fuzzy NGT and fuzzy DEMATEL in combination.