Funding sustainable entrepreneurship: a hybrid systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis

Ayoub Derdabi and Ondřej Dvouletý

Nankai Business Review International, 2025, vol. 16, issue 2, 359-380

Abstract: Purpovse - This literature review paper focuses on funding sustainable entrepreneurship. This paper aims to analyse the main trends in the intersection of these two fields, the current focus of the literature and synthesises the main findings. Design/methodology/approach - The analysis consists of bibliometric literature research and relevant peer-reviewed literature content analysis based on a corpus of 74 papers. The analysis aims to understand how sustainable entrepreneurs can fund their ventures and the main funding sources that could be used. The study also presents the challenges and the strategies to fund sustainable ventures. Findings - The findings show that the literature in the field is still nascent, even though scholars have shown a growing interest in it in the past five years. The focus of the literature is quite diverse between macro- and micro-level analysis and there are some rising topics such as alternative finance like crowdfunding. Originality/value - Based on the content analysis, the paper synthesises the main trends of the literature and identifies some potential research gaps, such as post-funding empirical research and the efficiency of regulations supporting the emergence of sustainable entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Bibliometric analysis; Finance; Funding; Sustainable entrepreneurship; Systematic literature review (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1108/NBRI-03-2024-0025

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