An overview of sport entrepreneurship field: a bibliometric analysis of the articles published in the Web of Science
Date
2019-05Author
Huertas González-Serrano, María
Jones, Paul
Llanos-Contrera, Orlando
Publisher
Sport in SocietyDescription
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In the sport entrepreneurship field, bibliometric analysis and maps have
not yet been used to analyze the production and to visualize the evolution and trends of this field. However, sport entrepreneurship is an
emerging field of research where it is necessary to find methodological
strategies for understanding the major research trends developing in
this specific field. Therefore, the primary aim of this article is to perform
a bibliometric analysis of sport entrepreneurship in the Web of Science
Core CollectionTM. In total, 123 articles were published between 1968
and 2018 and written by 252 different authors from 189 institutions and
36 different countries. The evolution of these papers published by year,
institution, country and journal was analyzed. Moreover, a co-occurrence analysis between authors, citations and keywords was performed,
as was a thematic analysis. Finally, suggestions for future research to
consolidate and develop this field with implications for researchers and
policy makers are discussed.