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