Entrepreneurship through acquisition: a scoping review
Hoffmann, A., Kanbach, D. K., & Stubner, S. (2024)
Management Review Quarterly, 74(4), 1981-2012
Scoping review; 102 studies met inclusion criteria (full text read). Finds extensive research on LBOs and family-external succession but "evidence specifically on ETA is still lacking", and "knowledge about the entrepreneurial intent that makes ETA unique is absent from the evidence base". Names self-funded, sponsored, incubated and crowd-funded searches as alternative models. Offers a definition, models and a process archetype.
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