Strategic entrepreneurship: mapping a research field

Abstract

Purpose

Strategic entrepreneurship (SE) depicts the nexus of strategic management and entrepreneurship, suggesting that firms can create superior wealth when simultaneously pursuing advantage-seeking and opportunity-seeking behavior. As the rapid growth in SE research led to a multidisciplinary, scattered and fragmented literature landscape, the authors aim to structure this research field.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors employ a bibliographic coupling and literature review of the strategic entrepreneurship research field.

Findings

The authors identify and describe five major research streams with 15 sub-themes in recent SE research. Based on our findings, the authors propose an integrated research framework and research gaps for future research.

Originality/value

To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first review on SE based on a bibliographic coupling.

Citation

Schröder, K., Tiberius, V., Bouncken, R.B. and Kraus, S. (2021), "Strategic entrepreneurship: mapping a research field", International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Vol. 27 No. 3, pp. 753-776. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEBR-11-2020-0798