Strategic entrepreneurship: mapping a research field

Abstract

PurposeStrategic 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/approachThe authors employ a bibliographic coupling and literature review of the strategic entrepreneurship research field.FindingsThe 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/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, this is the first review on SE based on a bibliographic coupling.