Agricultural Entrepreneurship – A Bibliometric Analysis and Concept Mapping

P Anusree; R Swarupa

doi:10.48001/jbmis.2024.si1009

P Anusree Department of Commerce, Sree Narayana College, Kannur https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1377-9684
R Swarupa Department of Commerce, Mahatma Gandhi College, Iritty

DOI: https://doi.org/10.48001/jbmis.2024.si1009

Keywords: Agricultural entrepreneurship, agriculture business, agropreneurship, agropreneurs, bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Agricultural entrepreneurship plays a vital role in job creation, economic income, and competitiveness of the agriculture sector. Considering the importance and relevance of this topic, it is important to explore the recent literature in this area of the study. This work aims to showcase the bibliometric analysis of scientific production and to reveal the importance of agricultural entrepreneurship. The information search was carried out in the Scopus database from 2013 to 2023. This work helps in the identification of key research topics, the co-occurrence of keywords in this field of study, and collaboration patterns and other research areas related to similar concepts. 476 research papers were assessed after being carefully examined and having several checkpoints to eliminate studies that weren’t relevant. Platforms such as Visualization Of Similarities (VOS) Viewer and R Studio are used for the bibliometric analysis of the 476 articles collected from the Scopus database by applying relevant filters, including performance analysis and keyword occurrence analysis. The graphical mapping exemplified the author’s and countries’ contributions, and their collaborations in this area of research over the period. In the analysis of the author’s keyword, the researcher noticed that “entrepreneurship” and “agriculture” were the most frequently occurring among other keywords. The researcher found that “entrepreneurship” has the greatest occurrence with 67 times 35 links and 82 total link strength. Mostly entrepreneurship links with some variables such as agriculture, agripreneurship, rural development, sustainability, agribusiness, agritourism, and entrepreneurial orientation.

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