Trends and Determinants of Youth-Led Digital Entrepreneurship: A Systematic Review

Abstract

 Digital entrepreneurship is a novel concept that adds insights to the traditional view of entrepreneurship. It changes entrepreneurial practices as businesses and people adopt digital technology daily. An attempt is made to explore the trend in literature in terms of digital entrepreneurship. This research aims to evaluate which authors, citations, and themes are most influential in the field of digital entrepreneurship research. It provides a comprehensive overview of the current trends and key contributions to the current research. It consolidates the literature at the intersection of the pivotal role of individual and institutional factors in shaping digital entrepreneurial intentions. The Scopus database was considered for bibliometric analysis to present a systematic literature review, using the keywords “digital entrepreneurs” and “entrepreneurs " as input. The VOSviewer software was adopted as a bibliometric analysis tool to visualize the networks of authors, countries, journals, and keywords. The analysis carried out on 9 July 2024 retrieved a total of 2,816 documents from 1999 to 2025. The results show that the number of publications about digital entrepreneurship has grown significantly over the past eleven years. The keyword analysis showed that the studies on digital entrepreneurship in the last two decades have focused on themes related to entrepreneurship, digital entrepreneurship, digital marketing, digital economy, e-commerce, and digital transformation issues. The bibliometric analysis presented provides relevant information on the main themes studied about digital entrepreneurship that play an important role in the digital entrepreneurship perspective. The theoretical contribution of the research is to enhance the understanding of how digital technology changes the broad assumptions on the sources, processes, and outcomes of entrepreneurial activities, while the practical contribution provides various contexts of technological impact.