Abstract
In the sports sector, entrepreneurship, innovation, and social corporative responsible are generating growing interest during the last years. Due to that situation, sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation in sport have emerged in this sector, receiving individual attention from academics and practitioners. However, little is known about the evolution of this new field of research. Thus, the main aim of this paper is to analyze the documents published in the Web of Science about sport sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation. The bibliometric analysis allows us to discover the current state of a research field, identify the principal authors, articles, and topics, and propose future research lines to develop it further. The articles published between 2000 and 2019 were analyzed quantitatively, and by word and author co-occurrence. Later, through the bibliographic coupling, the articles were grouped in different clusters. Seven central thematics were found, being the sports mega-events and the sustainability the most development sub-area or research, followed by the sport innovation for fostering inclusion. Moreover, for the development of this field of research, studies focused on “tourism” and “entrepreneurship” with “environment”, “sport”, “sustainability and knowledge” and “innovation” focus, are necessary. Thus, sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation in sport are an undeveloped but promising field for the future of the sports industry.
Highlights
Over the past decade, a new topic has become popular within the broad field of entrepreneurship, giving rise to a specific sub-area of study within this, the so-called sustainable entrepreneurship [1]
The results of the bibliometric analysis of [4], indicated that that the articles that were published in impacting journals found a common framework on how to define sustainable entrepreneurship by using terms related to the environment, such as “green”, among other terms
The search string performed in the Web of Science (WoS) database, have retrieved, after revising all the documents, a total of 87 articles published in 79 journals, by 218 authors from 36 different countries
Summary
A new topic has become popular within the broad field of entrepreneurship, giving rise to a specific sub-area of study within this, the so-called sustainable entrepreneurship [1] This phenomenon has attracted attention from the political, economic, and academic spheres, as interest in social and environmental issues has increased in recent years [2]. The last report developed, the “Global Sustainable Development Report 2019”, notes that advancing 2030 for Sustainable Agenda [9] must involve an urgent and intentional transformation of socioenvironmental-economic systems, to ensure human well-being, societal health and limited environmental impact [11] These data highlight the importance and need to implement sustainable entrepreneurial and innovative initiatives at a global level
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