Purpose

Family business has been widely discussed in the literature. Still, a holistic approach summarizing the family business concept in entrepreneurship is fragmented to date. This paper aims to explore the multimedia view of family business research in entrepreneurship and finds the key theme discussed by researchers.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, a systematic literature review on family business and its role in entrepreneurship have been conducted. The literature review consists of bibliometric and content analyzes. Bibliometric research offers quantitative insights, whereas content analysis provides the qualitative evaluation of the literature.

Findings

The findings suggest that recent research in this area focuses on exploring the role of women entrepreneurs and social entrepreneurship in the family business. The literature also finds that because of the nature of family businesses, successors get the opportunity to use their family’s network, social status, financing and opportunity toward a well-developed market.

Research limitations/implications

This paper may help researchers and practitioners to identify the past and current research trends related to family business and entrepreneurship.

Originality/value

The concepts from network theory are applied for content analysis to identify and explore various family business and entrepreneurship literature sub-domains.

中文翻译：

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家族企业及其在创业发展中的作用：文献计量和内容分析

目的

家族企业在文献中被广泛讨论。尽管如此，迄今为止，总结企业家精神中的家族企业概念的整体方法仍然是零散的。本文旨在探索企业家精神中家族企业研究的多媒体视角，并找到研究人员讨论的关键主题。

设计/方法/方法

本文对家族企业及其在创业中的作用进行了系统的文献综述。文献综述包括文献计量和内容分析。文献计量研究提供定量见解，而内容分析提供对文献的定性评价。

发现

研究结果表明，该领域的最新研究侧重于探索女性企业家和社会企业家在家族企业中的作用。文献还发现，由于家族企业的性质，继任者有机会利用其家族的网络、社会地位、融资和进入发达市场的机会。

研究限制/影响

本文可以帮助研究人员和从业者确定与家族企业和企业家精神相关的过去和当前的研究趋势。

原创性/价值

网络理论的概念被应用于内容分析，以识别和探索各种家族企业和创业文献子领域。