The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Passion: A Bibliometric Analysis and Thematic Analysis

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The purpose of this article is to conduct a comprehensive bibliometric analysis on entrepreneurial passion with the aim to elucidate the trajectory of publications and citations, identify the most prolific authors, predominant contributing countries, mostly used journals, emerging themes and track the thematic evolution of entrepreneurial passion from 2010 onwards. The Web of Science (WoS) database is used to retrieve the existing literature on entrepreneurial passion. A total of 514 articles were fetched which underwent a screening process resulting in the inclusion of 493 documents for the conclusive analysis. The findings of the study highlight the annual pattern publication and citation, most prolific authors, most contributing countries and journals, co-occurrence network, unveil emerging themes via thematic mapping and trace the evolution and collaboration network based on co-occurrence. The originality of the study lies in the methodology adopted, that is, bibliometric analysis to shed light on entrepreneurial passion, aiming to provide a comprehensive overview of undiscovered and emerging topics for prospective inquiry by future researchers. Moreover, it highlights the major contributors in terms of authors, countries and journals offering insights for scholarly exploration in this field.