TY - JOUR
T1 - Taking stock and looking ahead : a systematic literature review of effectuation research
AU - Salajegheh, Niloofar
AU - Forghani, Armin Khaleghi
AU - Galkina, Tamara
AU - Aeeni, Zeynab
AU - Akbari, Morteza
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2024.
PY - 2024/11/20
Y1 - 2024/11/20
N2 - Effectuation has become one of the core theoretical approaches in entrepreneurship research and attracted significant scholarly attention for over two decades. However, despite its influence and robust knowledge accumulation, the effectuation literature remains fragmented and hard to navigate, especially for researchers new to the field. This calls for interactively taking stock of the field’s current state and mapping future research directions. By utilizing a novel hybrid approach to researching effectuation literature, this article integrates augmented bibliometric analysis with a qualitative content analysis, thereby unveiling the intellectual structure of the field. Using data from 680 articles spanning 2001 to 2024, co-citation analysis of references reveals two influential publication groups: ‘pioneers’ and ‘expanders.’ Furthermore, we categorize contemporary effectuation literature into four subfields: antecedents, process, outcomes, and knowledge accumulation papers. This article contributes to the extant effectuation literature by exploring the field’s structure, categorizing its conceptual and methodological articulations and providing a roadmap for future effectuation research, enhancing the consolidation of effectuation research.
AB - Effectuation has become one of the core theoretical approaches in entrepreneurship research and attracted significant scholarly attention for over two decades. However, despite its influence and robust knowledge accumulation, the effectuation literature remains fragmented and hard to navigate, especially for researchers new to the field. This calls for interactively taking stock of the field’s current state and mapping future research directions. By utilizing a novel hybrid approach to researching effectuation literature, this article integrates augmented bibliometric analysis with a qualitative content analysis, thereby unveiling the intellectual structure of the field. Using data from 680 articles spanning 2001 to 2024, co-citation analysis of references reveals two influential publication groups: ‘pioneers’ and ‘expanders.’ Furthermore, we categorize contemporary effectuation literature into four subfields: antecedents, process, outcomes, and knowledge accumulation papers. This article contributes to the extant effectuation literature by exploring the field’s structure, categorizing its conceptual and methodological articulations and providing a roadmap for future effectuation research, enhancing the consolidation of effectuation research.
KW - Antecedents of effectuation
KW - Bibliometric analysis
KW - Effectuation outcomes
KW - Effectuation process
KW - Effectuation research
KW - Systematic literature review
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85209632481&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11846-024-00820-7
DO - 10.1007/s11846-024-00820-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85209632481
SN - 1863-6683
JO - REVIEW OF MANAGERIAL SCIENCE
JF - REVIEW OF MANAGERIAL SCIENCE
ER -