The promise of entrepreneurial passion to advance social entrepreneurship research

Social entrepreneurship (SE) is an emerging research field that has received much scholarly attention in recent years. Given the global scope of this attention, this review explores the existing scientific literature on social entrepreneurship to contribute to a systematization of the research field. Based on the publications in Web of Science and Scopus, a total of 1425 scientific articles were analyzed. We used the bibliometric method to describe the evolution of social entrepreneurship research (e.g., evaluation by years, authors, scientific journal articles, and countries in the SE literature that have had the greatest impact in terms of production). In addition, we used the mapping of knowledge networks through the citations and co-citations analysis to identify schools of thought. A keyword co-occurrence analysis was performed to detect key research topics over the years. The results show that, although the research is still in a nascent phase, it has a multidisciplinary character. Furthermore, social entrepreneurship appears to be a concept closely linked to three schools of thought: commercial entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, and social innovation. The keywords analysis allowed us to isolate the constructs that the literature has considered antecedents (e.g., socio-psychological factors) and accelerators (e.g., education, network, culture, and gender) to the development of social entrepreneurial intention. We will further discuss the ways researchers can explore this research field and contribute to the global literature.

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Social Entrepreneurship Research as a Means of Transformation: A Vision for the Year 2028

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship ◽

10.1080/19420676.2011.555463 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 112-120 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Susan Mueller ◽

Liudmila Nazarkina ◽

Christine Volkmann ◽

Christiane Blank

Keyword(s):

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Entrepreneurship Research

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Theoretical means for social entrepreneurship research in context of marketing 3.0

Economics ecology socium ◽

10.31520/2616-7107/2020.4.2-3 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 24-31

Author(s):

Olha Seleznоva ◽

Olena Boiko ◽

Victoria Bondar

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Social Enterprise ◽

Local Level ◽

Social Enterprises ◽

Vulnerable Groups ◽

Modern Concept ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Entrepreneurship Research ◽

Modern Development

Introduction. Modern development of socio-economic sector makes adjustments to market environment. Enterprises require expansion of their activities and feel necessity to diversify risks. Satisfaction of consumer needs is accompanied by introduction of innovations in various areas. Focusing on marketing 3.0, when market activity should not only ensure enterprise’s profitability, but also care about consumer and environment, is embracing more and more enterprises and becoming modern business responsibility. Therefore, the problem of social entrepreneurship research in context of sustainable development is becoming relevant and important. Aim and tasks. The main aim of this work is to formulate theoretical means for social entrepreneurship research, which should reveal peculiarities of tools to achieve global goals of sustainable development. To achieve this goal, the following tasks have been solved in this study: analysis of definitions and study the essence of “social entrepreneurship” concept; interconnection of social entrepreneurship goals with global goals of sustainable development and compliance with modern concept of marketing 3.0. Results. Research of “social enterprise” definition allows to define it as stable business structure, tended to self-development, which forms mechanism of social support and infrastructure development through close integration into social system. Social entrepreneurship is aimed at solving social problems and other goals of marketing 3.0. Social enterprise is considered in context of sustainable development, which is a concept that requires balance between satisfying current needs of people and protecting interests of future generations, ensuring their necessity for safe and healthy environment, and it must be able to contribute to global goals of sustainable development at local level. Conclusions. Social enterprises have become an acceptable mechanism for solving socio-economic problems, as they are developing and expanding new tools to achieve global goals of sustainable development at local level. Social entrepreneurship has opportunity to involve socially vulnerable groups in public life and expand citizens’ activity. Social entrepreneurship today is aimed at positive social changes and providing basic human needs in an optimal way.

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A Co-Citation and Co-Word Analysis of Social Entrepreneurship Research

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship ◽

10.1080/19420676.2020.1782971 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Phan Tan Luc ◽

Pham Xuan Lan ◽

Angelina Nhat Hanh Le ◽

Bui Thanh Trang

Keyword(s):

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Entrepreneurship Research ◽

Word Analysis

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Growing up from In-Betweeners: Alternatives to Hybridity in Social Entrepreneurship Research

Entrepreneurship Research Journal ◽

10.1515/erj-2018-0099 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Othmar Manfred Lehner ◽

Christiana Weber

Keyword(s):

Value Creation ◽

Social Entrepreneurship ◽

Institutional Logics ◽

Growing Up ◽

Potential Consequence ◽

Entrepreneurship Research ◽

Configuration Theory ◽

Alternative Approach ◽

Conceptual Paper ◽

Social Ventures

AbstractSocial ventures (SVs) based on social entrepreneurship are often labeled in the literature as hybrids because of their inherent different institutional logics between social and commercial thinking. As one potential consequence, it is further argued that these not-yet institutionalized organizational forms lack legitimacy. In this conceptual paper, we articulate our concerns with this trend in social entrepreneurship research. We propose configuration theory as an alternative approach to move forward and argue that from a configurational lens such SVs can be identified as distinct, yet coherent configurations driven by their intrinsic and idiosyncratic value bundles and related value creation goals. We demonstrate how this helps overcome the raised concerns and contribute to the literature on social entrepreneurship and configuration theory.

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