The Problems with and Promise of Entrepreneurial Finance
回顾了创业金融文献，分析了16种期刊的引用趋势，指出风险投资、私募股权和IPO的引用自2006年后上升，并揭示了文献分割问题及未来研究方向。
Research summary This article provides a review of the entrepreneurial finance literature in the surprisingly not very well integrated entrepreneurship and finance journals. Entrepreneurial finance encompasses venture capital, private equity, private debt, trade credit, IPOs, angel finance, and crowdfunding, among other forms of finance. We analyze trends in citation activity to these topic areas across 16 journals that publish at least somewhat regularly on these topics, and we show there has been a rise in citations on venture capital, private equity, and IPOs post‐2006. We highlight an unfortunate degree of segmentation in the literature, as well as topics that have been the subject of scholarly focus, and identify promising topics for future research. Managerial summary Who does research in entrepreneurial finance—entrepreneurship or finance scholars? And which types of journals are more likely to publish research in entrepreneurial finance? In this article, we provide an overview of the literature on topics that include venture capital, private equity, private debt, trade credit, IPOs, angel finance, and crowdfunding. Our review of the literature shows some elements of segmentation by the specific topic, which we explain is partly due to the fact that datasets on entrepreneurial finance themselves are often segmented and do not include information on more than one form of entrepreneurial finance at a time. Further, we show citation patterns are segmented by the type of journal, with finance journals being much less likely to refer to entrepreneurship journals. Copyright © 2017 Strategic Management Society