In Search of Alignment: A Review of Impact Studies in Entrepreneurship Education

Table 3

Steps in the review process.

Stage	Description
1	The researchers compiled a list of 20 entrepreneurship journals.
2	The search was limited to articles published in the aforementioned journals in the fifteen-year period between 01/01/2000 and 31/12/2015.
3	Within-journal searches were performed through Elsevier’s Scopus by using a generic Boolean keyword search string (entrepr OR enterprise) AND (education) in the title, abstract, and key words fields.
4	The above combined searches found a total of 615 peer-reviewed articles.
5	The authors manually examined the titles, abstract, and key words of the resultant articles. The following inclusion criteria were applied: empirical articles, studies of university students involved in entrepreneurship program or course; some type of assessment or evaluation takes place. More in-depth reading of the whole paper was undertaken if the decision to keep or omit the paper was not obvious. As a result, a final sample of 51 articles was selected.
6	Papers were then reviewed using a common reading guide designed by the authors. A special emphasis was placed on the three categories of the analytical framework. A final total of 16 empirical studies were kept for the detailed review process.

The first fourteen journals, except for Journal of Enterprising Culture, are in the Academic Journal Guide 2015; four journals are published by the Academy of Management; in addition, two journals extensively publish on the area of entrepreneurship education—Education and Training and Journal of European Industrial Training.