Recent trend in entrepreneurship research: A content analysis of selected journals

This study analyses the trend of entrepreneurship and venture management research based on the content analysis of two selected journals; Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) and The Korean Venture Management Review (VMR). JBV has published 213 articles to accommodate the requests from the field with many researchers' efforts for the recent past seven years (1998-2004), while VMR has published 104 articles for the same period since it started in 1998. These two journals can be regarded as representative in the world and in Korea respectively, in the division of entrepreneurship. The content analysis on 317 articles can bring good comparisons between different entrepreneurial cultures (developed vs. developing countries; established vs. emerging academic societies) in terms of industrial needs, emerging issues, and preferred research methods. This study addresses the following four research questions: First, what is the recent trend of entrepreneurship research in terms of contents and methodologies? Second, what are the differences in patterns between international and local journals in terms of contents and methodologies? Third, how does the venture bubble burst influence the research trend? Finally, what are some suggestions for further researches in the entrepreneurship domain journals in terms of contents and methodologies?