創業精神是一個新興的研究領域,由於創業精神具有跨學科與多構面的特徵,多數學者以自己的觀點闡明創業精神,造成創業精神缺乏典範型的理論架構並且邊界未能清楚劃分。本研究應用Kohonen自織組映射圖做為資訊視覺化的工具,從WOS的SCIE、SSCI資料庫中蒐集180篇有關創業研究領域的文獻,總共評估了831組關鍵字,分析後所產生的映射圖,將內容相似的文獻排列得非常接近,而文獻內容不同的則相距甚遠。研究結果共分為八大類,分別定義為:國際創業、創業與機會、創業與社會網絡、機會開發與社會網絡、機會辦識與不確定性、性別與創新、創業與創新、機會辨識與社會網絡之研究。本研究為創業領域的新進研究者提供了一個研究文獻與其他文獻之間如何關聯的方法,並且對於在創業領域裡不同類型的研究中,為新進的研究者提供了研究類型的建議。
Entrepreneurship is an emerging field of research. As a result of entrepreneurship having characteristics of interdisciplinary field and multidimensional construct, many scholars articulate entrepreneurship research by their own aspects which lead to lack of paradigmatic theoretical framework and distinct boundaries. This paper uses a Kohonen self-organizing map as a visualization tool applied to entrepreneurship literature to assess about 831 keywords for 180 literatures listed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, the Social Sciences Citation Index of Web of Science database. We obtain a map which place literatures with similar content very close together and literatures with very different content far apart. This summary of findings is divided into eight clusters and can be defined as research in international entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and opportunity, entrepreneurship and networks, opportunity-exploitation and networks, opportunity-recognition and uncertainty, gender and innovation, entrepreneurship and innovation, opportunity-recognition and networks. This paper offers a method to consider how literatures relate to each other and which literatures are most and least likely to offer a fit with different type of research in the entrepreneurship field for new researchers.