Purpose

The change in couples' personal ambitions concerning their careers, how they look after their family and how they deal with the work–family balance has revolutionized their position in the business world, specifically in family businesses. When couples embark on a joint business, the authors have copreneurial couples or copreneurs, the concept having existed for decades. This study provides mapping and a broad, holistic bibliometric analysis of copreneurs.

Design/methodology/approach

The study presented here followed the literature review for scientific mapping of the topic under discussion.

Findings

The results obtained show that the vast literature on copreneurs refers to other social sciences rather than business and management. Furthermore, final refining of the initial research made indicates that the literature in these areas is still minimal, justifying the need for this study. Also shown is the need to continue to study copreneurs, as fundamental economic actors in the business sector.

Practical implications

One of the study's main contributions lies in building a theoretical framework to explore empirically the success or failure of this business typology. The topics identified in this analysis highlighted copreneurial teams, copreneurial business and copreneurs' success factors.

Originality/value

The review presented here is wide-ranging and holistic, showing there is a shortage of research on the link between family business and copreneurs, whose conceptual difference lies in the construct of business succession since most researchers have studied psychological aspects, these couples' marital relationships and the factors contributing to conflict between work and domestic responsibilities.

中文翻译：

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从商业角度重新审视共同创业：理论发展

目的

夫妇在职业生涯、照顾家庭的方式以及处理工作与家庭平衡方面的个人抱负的变化彻底改变了他们在商业世界中的地位，特别是在家族企业中。当夫妻开始联合经营时，作者拥有共同创业的夫妻或共同创业者，这个概念已经存在了几十年。本研究提供了对共同创业者的映射和广泛的整体文献计量分析。

设计/方法/途径

此处介绍的研究是在对正在讨论的主题进行科学映射的文献综述之后进行的。

发现

获得的结果表明，大量关于共同创业者的文献指的是其他社会科学，而不是商业和管理。此外，对最初研究的最终提炼表明，这些领域的文献仍然很少，证明了进行这项研究的必要性。还表明需要继续研究共同创业者，作为商业部门的基本经济参与者。

实际影响

该研究的主要贡献之一在于建立了一个理论框架来从经验上探索这种商业类型学的成功或失败。该分析中确定的主题突出了共同创业团队、共同创业业务和共同创业者的成功因素。

原创性/价值

这里提出的审查是广泛而全面的，表明缺乏对家族企业与共同企业家之间联系的研究，其概念差异在于企业继承的结构，因为大多数研究人员研究的是心理方面，这些夫妻的婚姻关系以及导致工作和家庭责任之间冲突的因素。