A bibliometric and thematic analysis of green entrepreneurship in business research: current status and future research directions

In recent years, green entrepreneurship has gained momentum to meet the target of global sustainable development set for 2030. There has been a wave of interest in green or environmentally sustainable growth. However, systematic and qualitative reviews of this trending topic are still less. Hence, this study utilizes bibliometric analysis to address this gap and gathered data from the SCOPUS database from 2002 to 2022. The main objectives of this study are to identify essential inputs and directions that are studied and corresponding changes in research interest. The paper aims to determine the present status of green entrepreneurship, authors' contributions, identification of prominent authors, co-citations of the journals, co-occurrences of the topics, bibliographic coupling of the co-authors, institutions, and journals. These parameters are analyzed by applying network analysis techniques using VOSviewer software, CiteSpace, and R studio Biblioshiny tools. The outcomes of this study indicate that the number of published works and citations has been gradually growing in recent years. UK, China, and Greece are the most active countries. Further, the result provides a complementary overview of green entrepreneurship and sustainable development among other researchers during the identified timeline. Further, this study aims to provide new insights into green entrepreneurship and offers valuable suggestions to managers, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.