Abstract
This paper systematically reviews and critically examines the existing literature on well-being from the lens of entrepreneurship, in order to identify the state of the literature and propose future re-search agenda. The systematic literature review technique was employed to collect scientific re-search. All together eighty-two articles were included in the data analyses. The results suggest a diverse literature trying to link entrepreneurship and well-being, which indicates a growing but nascent area of research. The further inventory and critical evaluations of the existing research were categorised in terms of the research context, scope, results and conceptual rigours. Inherent from the systematic literature review technique, the scope of the existing literature covered in this paper may not be as comprehensive as a narrative literature review would have been. However, this article articulates the importance, timeliness and relevance of entrepreneurship for well-being in light of the increasing interests in both fields. It proposes a dynamic view of entrepreneurship and develops an ambitious research agenda, which addresses a number of emerging issues con-cerning well-being and entrepreneurship research.
Highlights
MethodsWe follow Engelbrecht (2014) to focus this review in the wider field of well-being literature
Since the aim was to look at entrepreneurship through well-being lenses, we searched for literature by including entrepreneurship in the ‘topic’ field and well-being in the ‘title’ field
Ger (1997) showed how entrepreneurs and other stakeholders worked together to help preserve local cultures and biodiversity in the Amazon, collaboratively improving social, economic and ecological well-being. Another excellent example of collective efforts by entrepre-neurs and stakeholders to improve well-being at several levels we identified is in Pozzebon and Mailhot’s (2012) study
Summary
We follow Engelbrecht (2014) to focus this review in the wider field of well-being literature. We adopted a systematic literature review (SLR) which allows objective evaluation, aggregation and synthesis of a large body of research to provide a meaningful overview (Petticrew & Roberts, 2006) in a systematic, transparent and replicable manner (Denyer & Tranfield, 2006). SLR is argued to reduce selection-bias (Denyer & Tranfield, 2009) and information overload by excluding irrelevant literature (Booth, Papaioannou & Sutton, 2012), and has in recent times gained in-creased acceptance within the business and management domain (Smith, Busi, Ball & Van Der Meer, 2008). Key search terms that took account of different terminologies used in the literature were adopted. After removing duplications (7 articles) and non-English literature (4 articles), we included all remaining 82 entries for further analyses
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