Research Outputs
The Valley of Death of Start-ups: A Systematic Literature Review
Purpose: The main factor that contributes to the socioeconomic development of a local territory is entrepreneurship; unfortunately, start-ups in Latin America have high failure rates during the first 5 years of operation, failing to overcome the so-called valley of death. This article aims to determine how literature explains this phenomenon, mapping current knowledge and identifying gaps in the relevant literature. Design/methodology/approach: A bibliometric analysis was carried out in order to build a state of the art starting from a search equation elaborated with the Citation Pearl Growing technique, which was entered into the SCOPUS and Web of Science (WOS) indexers, then the study of keywords co-occurrence was carried out with the VOSviewer® software, and as a result, the content analysis of 91 articles was performed with ATLAS.ti®. Findings: The review allowed to classify three clusters: valley of death, causes of the valley of death, and how to overcome the valley of death. This article identifies and reflects on the perception of various authors. There are still gaps in the literature and this work will allow researchers, legislators, and entrepreneurs to have an approach to information and updated scientific knowledge and to continue with its development, to identify the causes and possible ways to face this phenomenon. Originality/value: This document offers a mapping of information and scientific knowledge related to the valley of death, referring to the early stage in which enterprises are more vulnerable and tend to fail.
An overview of sustainable entrepreneurship in tourism, destination, and hospitality research based on the Web of Science
Sustainability, entrepreneurship and tourism, destination and hospitality research have attracted scholars’ attention for their relevance in bringing to fruition a future that links economic well-being with the environmental, cultural, and social sustainability of human beings. This article provides a bibliometric overview of the academic research where these topics intersect. To accomplish this, various bibliometric methods are implemented, which include a performance analysis and graphic mapping of the academic production in this specific topic. This research uses the Web of Science database to identify and classify the most preponderant investigations in the field and considers articles, authors, institutions, countries, and journals. To complete the performance analysis, a series of indicators, such as number of papers and number of citations, are used. Graphic visualization maps are produced using the co-citation and co-occurrence of keywords under the Visualization of Similarities—VOSviewer—software. The results show a growing concern for entrepreneurship in sustainable tourism development research, which is evidenced in the increasing number of studies during the last decade. Some influential research institutions and authors from countries including the USA, New Zealand, and Norway are found to be influential leaders in this topic. Additionally, the results show that journals from the area of hospitality, leisure, sport, and tourism are frontrunners in this subject.