Stage

Description

1)

According to Academic Journal Guide 2015 (CABS), all journals in entrepreneurship area

search were considered

2)

The search was restricted to articles published in the period between 01/01/2000 and 10/04/2015

3)

Within the selected journals were conducted a search using the keyword trustworth* in the

“All Text” field

4)

The above searches resulted in a total of 587 discrete articles

5)

Each resulting article was then examined by at least 2 authors and a set of criteria was applied

6)

Papers were reviewed using a thematic reading guide, adapted from Henry and Foss, 2014. See Annex 1

7)

Subsequently, this in-depth reading led to exclude articles where the criteria did not meet. All authors discussed the final sample of 55 articles

8)

All authors built a coding guideline, see Annex 2

9)

The findings were grouped by at least two of the authors according to this coding guideline

10)

Final results were discussed by all authors

11)

Final tables summarized these results; see Tables 3-8