Table 4 Methodology type of included studies

   1. Aalbers et al. (2013)

   2. Abbas et al. (2012)

   3. Almond & Power (2018)

   4. Amabile (1997)

   5. Bastian et al. (2018)

   6. Bergendahl et al. (2015)

   7. Bessonova and Gonchar (2017)

   8. Bolderdijk et al. (2018)

   9. Bowles and Hattie (2013)

   10. Chen et al. (2016)

   11. Cordero et al. (2005)

   12. Costa et al. (2015)

   13. Curran & Walsworth (2014)

   14. Dee et al. (2002)

   15. Demircioglu & Audretsch (2017)

   16. Dietrich (2016)

   17. du Toit et al. (2011)

   18. Ederer & Manso (2013)

   19. Edwards et al. 2014

   20. Fischer et al. (2019)

   21. Füller (2012)

   22. Galia (2008)

   23. Gorozidis and Papaioannou (2014)

   24. Gorozidis and Papaioannou (2016)

   25. Hopkins (2016)

   26. Hosseini and Narayanan (2014)

   27. Jain and Ali (2012)

   28. Joy (2004)

   29. Kirsten and Du Preez (2010)

   30. Koch et al. (2015)

   31. Kung, & Chao (2019)

   32. Kuznetsov and Kuznetsova (2011)

   33. Lam et al. (2010)

   34. Maria Stock et al. (2017)

   35. Mehta et al. (2008)

   36. Messmann and Mulder (2014)

   37. Montani et al. (2014)

   38. Mudambi et al. (2007)

   39. Nold (2017)

   40. Olivares et al. (2013)

   41. Ozorhon et al. (2017)

   42. Pihie (2007)

   43. Piperopoulos, Wu, & Wang (2018)

   44. Poskela and Martinsuo (2009)

   45. Radicic et al. (2016)

   46. Romero and Martínez-Román (2012)

   47. Shane et al. (2003)

   48. Skinner and Drake (2003)

   49. Skinner (1996)

   50. Song et al. (2011)

   51. Spanjol and Tam (2010)

   52. Stewart Jr. et al. (1999)

   53. Wang and Huang (2015)

   54. Wang et al. (2011)

   55. Wang et al. (2018)

   56. Wu et al. (2013)

   57. Xie and Reider (2014)

   58. Yidong and Xinxin (2013)

   59. Zheng et al. (2011)

1. Aarikka-Stenroos et al. (2017)

2. Antikainen et al. (2010)

3. Gopal and College (2011)

4. Hartmann (2006)

5. Jiang and Thagard (2014)

6. Kandiko (2013)

7. Kay (2011)

8. Manimala et al. (2006)

9. Marvel et al. (2007)

10. Minarcine & Shaw (2016)

11. Naidoo and Sutherland (2016)

12. Reznickova and Zepeda (2016)

13. Sergeeva and Zanello (2018)

14. Smith and Sandberg (2018)

15. Sorice and Donlan (2015)

16. Wendelken et al. (2014)

1. Antikainen and Vaataja (2010)

2. Curado et al. (2018)

3. Horkoff, Maiden, and Asboth (2019)

4. Jean et al. (2018)

5. Muninger, Hammedi, and Mahr (2019)

6. Ng & Feldman (2013)

7. Öberg & Shih (2014)