2025 Volume 49 Issue 2 Pages 261-273
Entrepreneurial learning (EL), a crucial factor in promoting entrepreneurship, has emerged as a promising research area since the early 2000s. Although several reviews have surveyed the EL literature, the body of work applying experiential learning theory (ELT) —widely regarded as pivotal to EL research —has yet to be comprehensively outlined, and its research agenda remains under-specified. To address this gap, the present study conducts a scoping review of 105 ELT-based EL studies. The results reveal biases in thematic coverage and methodological approaches and show that the entrepreneurial experiences examined are highly heterogeneous, leading to a fragmented literature base. Building on these insights, we recommend that future work (i) focus on specific experiences essential to EL, (ii) conduct empirical analyses with medium-sized samples, and (iii) integrate research with educational practice to maximize real-world impact.
