Analyzing the past to prepare for the future: a review of literature on factors with influence on entrepreneurial intentions

A scientometric analysis on entrepreneurial intention literature: Delving deeper into local citation

“… A systematic literature review on Entrepreneurial Intentions: Citation, Thematic Analyses, and Research Agenda (Liñán and Fayolle 2015) [ 5 ] 2004–2013 (9 years) Scopus, ABI-Inform/ProQuest, WOS and Science Direct DC Document 409 – EI topics: basic model, methodology and theory issues [ 65 ]; the influence of EI and personal level variables (148); EI and entrepreneurship education [ 68 ]; the role of context and institutions [ 72 ]; intention-behaviour relationship and entrepreneurial process [ 39 ]; and new areas of research [ 17 ]. T The theory of planned behaviour in entrepreneurship research: what we know and future directions (Lortie and Castogiovanni 2015) [ 29 ] 1993–2011 (18 years) WOS, ABI-Inform/ProQuest M Document 42 – TPB issues: attitudes [ 16 ]; subjective norms [ 14 ]; perceived behavioural control (27 papers); intention [ 67 ]; behaviour [ 13 ]; complete model [ 1 ]. Weight- and meta-analysis of empirical literature on entrepreneurship: Towards a conceptualisation of entrepreneurial intention and behaviour (Alferaih 2017) [ 37 ] – Scopus, WOS, EBSCO and Google Scholar M Document 123 – The author identified the EI predictors (independent and dependent variables), their relationship and significance, the correlation between variables, sample size, type of analysis, data collection, constructs variance, path-coefficient, and effect size were examined.…”

“… T Variables NP Journal A Systematic Literature Review on Social Entrepreneurial Intention (Tan, Le, and Xuan 2020) [ 33 ] 2010–2018 (10 years) Scopus, WOS and Google Scholar NP Document 36 – Descriptive analysis to identify the number of documents and their distribution by country (Asia −16, Europe -7-, America −4, Multi-region −4, Unspecified −3, Africa −2). Thematic analyses resulted in four categories: core model, methodological and theoretical issues [ 12 ]; personal-level variables [ 19 ]; context and institutions [ 4 ]; and the social entrepreneurial intention-to-behaviour process [ 1 ]. Countries T Document From personal values to entrepreneurial intention: a systematic literature review (Hueso, Jaén, and Liñán 2021) [ 34 ] 1992–2020 (28 years) Scopus, ABI-Inform and WOS T Document 22 – Personal values, conceptualised from the Theory of Basic Human Values, are antecedents of the EI studied from the TPB.…”

“…An integrative conceptual framework and future lines of research are proposed. Analysing the past to prepare for the future: a review of literature on factors with influence on entrepreneurial intentions (Pérez-Macías, Fernández-Fernández, and Vieites 2021) [ 1 ] 1994–2017 (23 years) Scopus NP Journal 177 – Narrative analysis of the topic of EI regarding the factors that influence individuals' EI. Antecedents (personal-level variables, entrepreneurship education (EE), and contextual factors and institutional variables), and topics of analysis ( cognitive factors such as self-efficacy; personality and psychological variables such as propensity/adversity to risk; and socio-demographic variables such as age, gender, and human capital) were identified to summarise the literature.…”

“…The world must face the fact that the job seekers exceed the demand provided by current employers. Therefore, the solution may lie in the creation of new businesses due to the fact that governments will not be able to provide employment for everybody [ 1 ]. Entrepreneurship has emerged as ‘the great solution’ to the issue of unemployment and the growing problems generated by global crises [ 2 ], and this fact explains the great interest in entrepreneurial intention (EI) research over the last two decades.…”

Measuring factors influencing entrepreneurial intention across gender in India: evidence from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Database

“…Under the cognitive approach, every human activity is being influenced by mental processes, such as motivation, perceptions or attitudes (Arafat and Saleem, 2017;Pérez-Macías et al, 2022). Grégoire et al (2011) are of the view that cognitive science encourages us not only to consider the effects of cognitive variables for entrepreneurial action, but also to articulate the relationships between mind, environment and entrepreneurial action that influence the development, use and transformation of these variables.…”