Table 4 Methodology type groupings of included studies

Qualitative

1. Aalbers et al. (2013)

29. Hosseini and Narayanan (2014)

1. Aarikka-Stenroos et al. (2017)

2. Amabile (1997)

30. Hsu (2009)

2. Armstrong et al. (2018)

3. Apergis and Pekka-Economou (2010)

31. Jermias (2007)

3. Brcic (2010)

4. Bastian et al. (2018)

32. Joy (2004)

4. Gopal and College (2011)

5. Bergendahl et al. (2015)

33. Koloniari et al. (2018)

5. Griffin et al. (2009)

6. Bessonova and Gonchar (2017)

34. Kraft and Bausch (2018)

6. Hartmann (2006)

7. Bolderdijk et al. (2018)

35. Kung and Chao (2019)

7. Jiang and Thagard (2014)

8. Brandstätter (2011)

36. Lam et al. (2010)

8. Kandiko (2013)

9. Chen et al. (2019)

37. Lerner and Wulf (2018)

9. Lettl (2007)

10. Chi et al. (2018)

38. Li and Yu (2018)

10. Manimala et al. (2006)

11. Chis et al. (2018)

39. Liu and Chan (2017)

11. Minarcine and Shaw (2016)

12. Cordero et al. (2005)

40. Lukoschek et al. (2018)

12. Naidoo and Sutherland (2016)

13. Costa et al. (2015)

41. Mack and Landau (2015)

13. Pihlajamaa (2017)

14. Curran and Walsworth (2014)

42. Maria Stock et al. (2017)

14. Reznickova and Zepeda (2016)

15.de Jong and Flowers (2018)

43. Messmann and Mulder (2014)

Mixed

16. Delmas and Pekovic (2018)

44. Monge et al. (1992)

1. Mc Fadden and Gorman (2016)

17. Demircioglu and Audretsch (2017)

45. Montani et al. (2014)

2. Ng and Feldman (2013)

18. Dietrich et al. (2016)

46. Ozorhon and Oral (2017)

3. Öberg and Shih (2014)

19. Duverger (2012)

47. Park et al. (2004)

4. Susha et al. (2015)

20. Ederer and Manso (2013)

48. Pihie (2007)

21. Fernandez and Pitts (2011)

49. Shane et al. (2003)

22. Fischer et al. (2019)

50. Thapa et al. (2015)

23. Ford (1999)

51. Todt et al. (2018)

24. Füller et al. (2012)

52. van Acker et al. (2018)

25. Galia (2008)

53. Vansteenkiste et al. (2005)

26. Gorozidis and Papaioannou (2016)

54. Wang et al. (2018)

27. Hasan et al. (2019)

55. Weisenfeld and Hauerwaas (2018)

28. Hopkins (2016)

56. Wu et al. (2013)