Entrepreneurship factors in Latin America: A systematic mapping

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is the closest evidence of innovation in collectivist environments and in developing countries, however, there are no updated studies at the Latin American level on this subject. For this reason, a systematic mapping of quantitative and qualitative aspects of primary studies of the success and innovation factors in Latin American ventures is conducted to determine the most relevant elements in this regard. Therefore, each stage used the review protocol suggested by recognized authors, establishing the research question, search string, databases, inclusion-exclusion criteria, and extracted data. The research obtained Sixteen works through the databases Scopus, Scielo, Dialnet, Redalyc, Web of Science, and CienciAmérica, but discarded two of them because they were false positives. As a conclusion, most of the jobs come from Ecuador because it is a country with an important level of entrepreneurship before Mexico and Colombia. In addition, the main factors that stand out in the works are perseverance, vision, the attitude of the entrepreneur, and the business culture. Finally, as future work the authors plan to extend the work to a systematic literature review that provides more detail than the present work.