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 |