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The entrepreneurship area is a relatively new field of research that has been gaining importance on the international scene. However, in Brazil, the scenario is quite different. Bertero et al. (2013) reinforces that Brazilian scientific production of the 2000s is deficient and there is a long road to its maturity in the country. Thus, systematic review on entrepreneurship receives theoretical justification for a reflection of what has currently been done and practical relevance for authors.
The main objective of this study is to describe and critically analyze the scientific production on entrepreneurship in the TBJA (RAE, RAUSP, RAC and BAR) during over 15 years (2000-2014), trying to identify challenges and opportunities. This paper contributes theoretically by providing a quantitative and qualitative description, making a critical analysis of the entrepreneurship research and practice as giving a perspective to researchers and first time authors to produce high impact papers.
The entrepreneurship research as a field is about 30–40 years-old and has become an important area of intellectual activity involving thousands of scholars (Landström, Harirchi & Åström, 2012). In the case of Brazil, the field of entrepreneurship is much younger, something around 1990s. Therefore, it is time to look back and analyze what we have been done at the TBJA and, not least, attempt to identify the main opportunities and challengers made by researchers within the field in Brazil.
We carried out a quantitative and qualitative analysis, by a systematic review of all entrepreneurship papers published in: BAR, RAC, RAE and RAUSP, which represents 61 papers analyzed. Thus, we developed and followed a guideline: (1) include only TBJA with the existing A2 rating by CAPES system in 2014; (2) select only those journals with general editorial directives in all areas of Management and Entrepreneurship; (3) choose a period for data analysis, which in this study was 2000 to 2014.
The results indicated as challenges: (1) lack of entrepreneurship publication within the TBJA. (2) The impact of the scientific production of the TBJA is still low compared to international journals focused exclusively on entrepreneurship. (3) Prevalence of low methodological approaches. As opportunities: (1) give preference to empirical studies carried out by rigorous methodologies. (2) empirical studies extending the theoretical basis of the existing literature using longitudinal design.
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