Global entrepreneurship in healthcare: A systematic literature review and bibliometric analysis

ABSTRACT

The Covid-19 pandemic transformed the global entrepreneurship arena. The healthcare sector also transitioned from the traditional in-person patient-physician interaction to the virtual telemedicine healthcare delivery system with global outreach. The entrepreneur alliances in the healthcare sector almost doubled during the pandemic with maximum tie-ups with international healthcare institutions. The study takes a bibliometric perspective by analyzing articles on global entrepreneurship in healthcare. It provides the most influential authors and institutions, the thematic structure through cluster analysis, co-word network analysis, and co-citation analysis related to the literature on global entrepreneurship in the healthcare domain. The findings emphasized the importance of local alliances compared to global alliances in healthcare service delivery, especially during a pandemic. Technology was found to be a great enabler for global entrepreneurship. The study also highlights the emerging research themes for scholars working on global entrepreneurship in the healthcare sector. © 2023 Wiley Periodicals LLC.