Asia School of Business

Global Inquiry, Local Heart

Meta-Analyses in Entrepreneurship Research: The State of the Art and Future Directions for Validity Assessment

Authors:Andreas Rauch, Michael Frese, Macarena Tabilo

In entrepreneurship research, meta-analysis has been used both for describing phenomena and for drawing inferences. Meanwhile, this study identified 92 meta-analyses that have been conducted in the domain of entrepreneurship. This paper reviews these analyses with two main purposes. First, this paper provides a state-of-the-art summary of meta-analysis findings to show the empirical evidence on concepts, relationships and theories.