Navigating the Digital Age: A Bibliometric Analysis of Digital Entrepreneurship Adoption Trends and Patterns

Abstract

In the rapidly evolving digital landscape, understanding the adoption trends and patterns in digital entrepreneurship is essential. Despite the growing significance of digital entrepreneurship, there remains a gap in systematically analyzing how this phenomenon has been adopted and evolved in scholarly research. This gap hinders the development pertaining to a cohesive comprehension with regard to the field’s trends, challenges, and future directions. Employing a bibliometric analysis, this study examines scholarly publications on digital entrepreneurship from 2014 to 2023, sourced from Scopus analytics. We use tools like VOSviewer for visualizing trends in author productivity, co-authorship networks, and keyword co-occurrences. The analysis focuses on the volume of publications, author contributions, interdisciplinary nature, and global collaboration patterns in the field. The study anticipates uncovering a significant growth in digital entrepreneurship research, characterized by diverse and interdisciplinary contributions. We expect to identify critical scholars and their influence on the field, trends in research topics, and the evolution of digital entrepreneurship themes over time. This bibliometric analysis aims to provide a comprehensive overview of digital entrepreneurship as a field of academic inquiry, highlighting its multidisciplinary nature and global impact. By charting the adoption trends and patterns, the study offers insightful details about the evolution of digital entrepreneurship and its role in shaping the digital economy, guiding future research and practice in this dynamic domain.