Rereading entrepreneurial failure from the scientific literature: A bibliometric approach

Abstract

Academic literature analyzing the conditions of entrepreneurial failure has emerged in the last decade. Failure can be interpreted in several ways: failure as the disappearance of the firm, failure based on flawed strategies, organizational failure, and failure defined by the entrepreneur's perception. We mobilize a bibliometric technique and identify different scientific conversations initiated between 2016 and 2021. We conducted a bibliometric study using the bibliographic linkage method on 198 articles. This article is divided into three sections. First, we review the methodological choices made, then we describe the results before discussing their generic implications for understanding the phenomenon of failure.