Purpose This paper aims to study the FinTech enterprises and the management theories related to this subject in a scientific way. Design/methodology/approach This study is a bibliometric study on FinTech enterprises. Its origin is a survey of 1,749 papers in 6 traditional peer-reviewed academic databases (e.g. Science Direct and Scopus) and in the “gray” literature, published by other agents and not subject to double-blind peer review. In this analysis we use three approaches: academic paper or not; journal main interest, and main purpose of the paper. Findings The first approach shows 45% of papers without blind review. The second approach shows no concentration on any journal. It represents no concentration on any kind of specific journal. And the third approach shows four kinds of contents in all researched papers: FinTech categorizations; FinTech related to theory of disruptive innovation; FinTech and theories of administration or economy; and finally, FinTech and regulatory and legislative aspects. Originality/value The findings identified the emergence of new research strands, precedence of studies of “gray” literature to explain the phenomenon, distribution of studies in different fields of knowledge (e.g. information technology, business and law) and lack of consensus in theories to explain the matter.

Apesar da existência de revisões sistemáticas e estudos bibliométricos que tratam do empreendedorismo social e da inovação social de forma isolada, estudos que abordam esses dois temas de forma conjunta ainda são escassos. O objetivo deste estudo é mapear a produção acadêmica sobre empreendedorismo social e inovação social por meio da técnica bibliométrica como método de pesquisa. Foram avaliados trabalhos indexados na base de dados Scopus por meio da análise de citações, co-citações e análise textual. Os resultados apontam para o crescimento no interesse científico sobre os dois temas, quando analisados de forma conjunta. Entretanto, a ênfase desses estudos está no empreendedorismo social sendo que a inovação social aparece como elemento secundário, característica ou resultado do processo empreendedor.

This study uses a bibliometric approach to analyze how the scientific production of entrepreneurship and the theoretical approach of the dynamic capabilities is corelated. With a sample of 701 studies from the Web of Science database we identified 88 articles concentrated in four different journals, pointing the most productive authors, the most cited references and clusters of keywords mainly related to entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities.  The results demonstrates that entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities are two research streams that still need to have their relationships better explored, since the bibliometric maps demonstrated that most studies appear to have a main focus on dynamic capabilities but only addressing entrepreneurship related either to the entrepreneur itself, or to its entrepreneurial orientation, not exploring other important entrepreneurship issues. This work contributes theoretically by addressing a relationship still underexplored at the academy, thus encouraging future studies on the theme.

Os recursos financeiros são uma das principais fontes de sustentabilidade das empresas com objetivos sociais, sustentáveis e ambientais. Este estudo busca examinar as relações entre o empreendedorismo social, sustentável e ambiental com as finanças empresariais. Após levantamento de referências bibliográficas localizadas nas bases de dados Scopus e Web of Science foi realizada a análise dos dados com a utilização de mapas bibliométricos. A análise das distâncias de palavras-chave nos mapas bibliométricos demonstra que as finanças empresariais ainda são pouco exploradas na literatura desses três tipos de empreendedorismo. Foi constatado que os termos crowdfunding e financial performance são os que apresentam maior aderência com empreendedorismo sustentável em comparação com o social e o ambiental. As limitações encontradas referem-se à sobreposição de trabalhos resultantes das pesquisas bibliográficas de empreendedorismo sustentável e ambiental, além do reduzido tamanho dos mapas gerados por esses temas em conjunto com as finanças empresariais.

This study uses a bibliometric approach to analyze how the scientific production of entrepreneurship and the theoretical approach of the dynamic capabilities is corelated. With a sample of 701 studies from the Web of Science database we identified 88 articles concentrated in four different journals, pointing the most productive authors, the most cited references and clusters of keywords mainly related to entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities. The results demonstrates that entrepreneurship and dynamic capabilities are two research streams that still need to have their relationships better explored, since the bibliometric maps demonstrated that most studies appear to have a main focus on dynamic capabilities but only addressing entrepreneurship related either to the entrepreneur itself, or to its entrepreneurial orientation not exploring other important entrepreneurship issues. This work contributes theoretically as being the first bibliometric study that examines the relationship between entrepreneurship and dynamic capability and encourages future studies on the theme.