Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the existing literature on entrepreneurial teams (ET) by taking a multi-disciplinary viewpoint and provide a future research agenda based on the identified themes and trends.

Design/methodology/approach

A systematic literature review (SLR) was undertaken using “business source complete”. Further scrutiny and application of exclusion criteria led to a final sample consisting of 139 papers from 27 different journals belonging to not just entrepreneurship and strategic management but also other disciplines like OB, finance, sociology, psychology, etc. Using qualitative thematic analysis, the authors identified 11 major themes.

Findings

The paper reviews both the eleven themes and the linkages between the themes. Thereby identifying areas that have been understudied and those that have received comparatively more attention. The review revealed that the research stream possesses certain conceptual and methodological concerns apart from its cross-sectional and primarily bivariate nature. Five such main concerns have been identified and discussed in detail. Other elements of the resulting research agenda include calls for more clinical process-oriented research, further attention to context, shifting the level of analysis, and a need to integrate across disciplines.

Originality/value

This paper incorporates a broad insight of ET across academic disciplines to show how future contributions could benefit by incorporating research from other fields. In doing so, provides a starting point for more nuanced discussions around the interrelationships between the different conversations that are taking place in the ET literature.

中文翻译：

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创业团队作为研究领域的出现——前进的方向

目的

本文的目的是通过多学科的观点来回顾和批评关于创业团队 (ET) 的现有文献，并根据确定的主题和趋势提供未来的研究议程。

设计/方法/方法

使用“完整的业务来源”进行了系统的文献审查 (SLR)。排除标准的进一步审查和应用导致最终样本包括来自 27 种不同期刊的 139 篇论文，不仅属于创业和战略管理，还属于其他学科，如 OB、金融、社会学、心理学等。 作者使用定性主题分析确定了11个主要主题。

发现

该文件回顾了 11 个主题以及这些主题之间的联系。从而确定研究不足的领域和相对受到更多关注的领域。审查表明，研究流除了其横截面和主要的双变量性质外，还具有某些概念和方法论方面的问题。已经确定并详细讨论了五个这样的主要问题。由此产生的研究议程的其他要素包括呼吁更多以临床过程为导向的研究、进一步关注背景、改变分析水平以及跨学科整合的需要。

原创性/价值

本文结合了跨学科的 ET 的广泛见解，以展示未来的贡献如何通过整合其他领域的研究而受益。这样做，为围绕 ET 文献中发生的不同对话之间的相互关系进行更细致的讨论提供了一个起点。