Abstract
Even though contributions in the field of entrepreneurship have mostly focused on emphasising the role of theentrepreneur and their ventures, further understanding of contextual elements that influence entrepreneurship alsorepresents a benefit for field development. Furthermore, according to extant literature, the institutional literature is anappropriate framework to analyse how the contextual elements and mechanisms create influences forentrepreneurship. An increasing interest in the study of these institutional contextual influences creates the imperativeto identify trends and research opportunities that are developing within this line of research. As a result, this study hasthe objective of conducting a review that identifies 61 articles from leading international journals, from 1999 to 2023.This review article presents the key themes found about the contextual influence upon entrepreneurship and proposesways forward for the enrichment of these identified themes.