Examining the Link Between Entrepreneurialism and Employability: A Literature Review

Abstract

Policymakers and higher education institutions share global concerns about unemployment and equipping companies with a quality workforce. The dynamism of today’s business world has changed the nature of employability. In order to survive in this frequently changing business world, graduates must not only focus on their employability skills but also on entrepreneurial attributes. This article tries to understand the connection between entrepreneurship and employability. In like manner, this article carries out a review of literature in these two fields relying upon the Scopus database. This study extracted the final corpus of 236 articles and processed it further in Vos Viewer to know the most influential authors, countries, organisations and articles followed by an extensive review of 40 articles. This study reveals that the employability literature and entrepreneurial literature are mainly connected through entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial skills. This study also offers future research direction by exposing some research gaps. This article will help higher education institutions understand the need to develop entrepreneurialism among graduates to enhance their employability.