Internationalization of Entrepreneurship: A bibliometric analysis on its importance and evolution
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Entrepreneurship, Internationalization, SMEsAbstract
In the academic relations of international business, it is of special importance to follow the evolution of internationalization and entrepreneurship with its different perspectives in order to extrapolate the validity and crescendo degree of relevance of this phenomenon in the last decade. This article presents a quantitative analysis of the scientific production on the subject, through a scientometric approach. At the methodological level, the process was developed in two steps: an analysis of the scientometric indicators was carried out, in the indexed database Web of Science. The results were visualized in the Tree of Science (ToS) platform. The analysis revealed 833 articles, with a predominance of North American and English authors represented in 27% and a low Latin American representation of 3.21%. The findings show a wide thematic diversity and help to identify key trends in recent research. As a limitation, the study focused only on one database. It is suggested that future research extend the analysis to other sources and consider qualitative approaches to complement the results.
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