Author(s)

Jing Liu, Xiaokang Zhao

Corresponding Author

Xiaokang Zhao

Abstract

This paper, which is based on literature indexed in SSCI and CSSCI related with female entrepreneurship from 1995 to 2015, compares the high-frequency author, research institutions, cited literatures’ co-occurrence networks by using social network analysis so as to analyze multidimensional forces on researches in China and worldwide. The study shows that there are also some differences in China and worldwide among influences of high frequency authors, corporations among institutions, research topics, research methods, theoretical foundation and influences of high certainty literatures. The research trend of Chinese women entrepreneurship is following the trend of the world, but it also shows its own characteristics and personality. Furthermore, international research organizations or institutions of high frequency or high centrality have formed agglomeration phenomenon. In addition, scholars indexed by SSCI are more inclined to adopt the positivist research paradigm, and the vast majority of articles are empirical papers. In aggregate, the research direction is closely associated with circumstances.

Keywords

Female entrepreneurship, women, entrepreneurs, social network analysis, Chinese female entrepreneurship, gender