CARTOGRAFIA DE LA MOTIVACION EMPRESARIAL: UN ANALISIS DE CITAS CONJUNTAS A DOCUMENTOS

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to explore and map the intellectual structure of entrepreneurial motivation studies during 1990–2010 by analyzing 4842 cited references of 96 articles from journals in SSCI and SCI databases. In this article, co-citation analysis and social network analysis techniques are used to research intellectual structure of the entrepreneurship motivation literature. We are able to identify the important publications and the influential scholars as well as the correlations among these publications by analyzing citation and co-citation. Three factors emerged in this study are: (1) entrepreneur characteristics (personality theory, traits theory…) as variable or element significant to entrepreneurial activity, (2) cognitive psychology in the research for exploitation of an opportunity, and (3) psycho sociological dimensions of entrepreneurship.