scholarly journals Mapping the social entrepreneurship research: Bibliographic coupling, co-citation and co-word analyses

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1896885
Author(s):  
Luc Phan Tan
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Bibliographic Coupling ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Social Impact Measurement: Current Approaches and Future Directions for Social Entrepreneurship Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Rawhouser ◽  
Michael Cummings ◽  
Scott L. Newbert
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Impact Measurement ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Standards

Despite the importance of social impact to social entrepreneurship research, standards for measuring an organization’s social impact are underdeveloped on both theoretical and empirical grounds. We identify a sample of 71 relevant papers from leading (FT50) business journals that examine, conceptually or empirically, the measurement of social impact. We first describe the breadth of definitions, data sources, and operationalizations of social impact. Based on this analysis, we generate a typology of four approaches to conceptualizing social impact, which we use to organize insights and recommendations regarding improved measurement of the social impact of entrepreneurial ventures.

Feminist perspectives on social entrepreneurship: critique and new directions

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Clark Muntean ◽  
Banu Ozkazanc-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Women’S Entrepreneurship ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Directions ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Women's Entrepreneurship

Purpose The authors bring diverse feminist perspectives to bear on social entrepreneurship research and practice to challenge existing assumptions and approaches while providing new directions for research at the intersections of gender, social and commercial entrepreneurship. Design/methodology/approach The authors apply liberal feminist, socialist feminist and transnational/post-colonial feminist perspectives to critically examine issues of gender in the field of social entrepreneurship. Findings By way of three distinct feminist lenses, the analyses suggest that the social entrepreneurship field does not recognize gender as an organizing principle in society. Further to this, a focus on women within this field replicates problematic gendered assumptions underlying the field of women’s entrepreneurship research. Practical implications The arguments and suggestions provide a critical gender perspective to inform the strategies and programmes adopted by practitioners and the types of research questions entrepreneurship scholars ask. Social implications The authors redirect the conversation away from limited status quo approaches towards the explicit and implicit aim of social entrepreneurship and women’s entrepreneurship: that is, economic and social equality for women across the globe. Originality/value The authors explicitly adopt a cultural, institutional and transnational analysis to interrogate the intersection of gender and social entrepreneurship.

Social Entrepreneurship Taxonomy

2019 ◽  
pp. 239-273
Author(s):  
Alicia Guerra Guerra ◽  
Lyda Sánchez de Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Current View ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Factors

Regardless of the bubbling social entrepreneurship research, a generally accepted concept for this term. In fact, the current limited conceptual framework undermines the bases of this entrepreneurship and hinders rigorous scientific progress in this area of study. In this paper, the authors attempt to fix the conceptual framework of the social enterprise, for which we have opted for an integrated, broad open view of the concept, given the heterogeneous nature of its agents and its continuous evolution, as well as the type of social enterprises that may be inferred from it. They close by exploring the keys to success of these enterprises, certain specific factors of which only a few are shared by traditional enterprises. By applying a qualitative and quantitative methodology, which they triangulate, this analysis is implemented for Extremadura (Spain), a region that embarks on fostering social entrepreneurship based on the current view in a territory with a thin social enterprise network.

Social Entrepreneurship Taxonomy

2016 ◽  
pp. 370-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alicia Guerra Guerra ◽  
Lyda Sánchez de Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Current View ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Factors

Regardless of the bubbling social entrepreneurship research, a generally accepted concept for this term. In fact, the current limited conceptual framework undermines the bases of this entrepreneurship and hinders rigorous scientific progress in this area of study. In this paper, the authors attempt to fix the conceptual framework of the social enterprise, for which we have opted for an integrated, broad open view of the concept, given the heterogeneous nature of its agents and its continuous evolution, as well as the type of social enterprises that may be inferred from it. They close by exploring the keys to success of these enterprises, certain specific factors of which only a few are shared by traditional enterprises. By applying a qualitative and quantitative methodology, which they triangulate, this analysis is implemented for Extremadura (Spain), a region that embarks on fostering social entrepreneurship based on the current view in a territory with a thin social enterprise network.

Social entrepreneurship research in Asia-Pacific: perspectives and opportunities

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhanjan Sengupta ◽  
Arunaditya Sahay
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Enterprises ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Social Entrepreneur ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
The Social

Purpose This paper aims to facilitate researchers, academicians and entrepreneurs gain insights on the social entrepreneurship concept and future research opportunities in the context of the Asia-Pacific countries (APAC). Design/methodology/approach The diversity of social entrepreneurship phenomenon visible in 101 journal publications was reviewed and analyzed to identify research perspectives and opportunities, with special focus on papers published on the APAC context between 1998 and 2015. The keywords for search were “social entrepreneurship”, “social enterprises”, “social entrepreneur” and the names of all countries in APAC. Findings The study identifies three prominent themes in need of more research in the APAC countries: contextual, institutional and personal factors surrounding social entrepreneurship; usage of market orientation by social enterprises to generate economic and social value; and impact of social entrepreneurship education on generating talent pool for social enterprises. Originality/value During the review on the social entrepreneurship concept, it was felt that most research originated from both sides of the Atlantic rather than the APAC. Interestingly, no review was found on research published on social entrepreneurship as perceived and practiced in APAC. Therefore, this paper would be of particular value to any researcher who would conduct social entrepreneurship research in the Asia-Pacific context. Asia-Pacific offers immense scope for empirical research for theory generation and theory testing in different contexts.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship Research: Intellectual Structures and Future Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7532
Author(s):  
Giuseppina Maria Cardella ◽  
Brizeida Raquel Hernández-Sánchez ◽  
Alcides Almeida Monteiro ◽  
José Carlos Sánchez-García
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Bibliometric Method ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Network Culture ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Education Network

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.

Integrating Social Entrepreneurship Literature Through Teaching

2021 ◽  
pp. 251512742110219
Author(s):  
Angela E. Addae ◽  
Cheryl Ellenwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Growth Strategies ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Skill Sets ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Sectors

As boundaries between the business and social sectors dissolve, social entrepreneurship has emerged as a phenomenon that bridges two worlds previously divided. Now, social entrepreneurs embrace market-based tools to address society’s greatest challenges. Coinciding with the growth of the sector, students and researchers have sought to understand development, growth strategies, and the practical challenges related to social entrepreneurship. In turn, universities have bolstered social entrepreneurship education by creating academic offerings that emphasize business, social impact, and innovation. Still, social entrepreneurship education remains in its infancy. Courses are as varied as the field itself, and instructors routinely rely on their professional backgrounds and networks to develop curricula that explore the field’s multifaceted character. Thus, social entrepreneurship courses are diverse across disciplines, and the academic literature theorizing the phenomenon is similarly emergent. As social entrepreneurship courses combine theoretical insights with experiential learning in a myriad of ways, aligning theoretical insights with necessary core competencies presents a challenge. To address this dilemma, we highlight the importance of employing theory-driven concepts to develop core competencies in social entrepreneurship students. In doing so, we review key threshold concepts in the social entrepreneurship literature and suggest how instructors might link theoretical insights to practical skill sets.

Sentimental Drivers of Social Entrepreneurship: A Study of China's Guangcai (Glorious) Program

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daphne W. Yiu ◽  
William P. Wan ◽  
Frank W. Ng ◽  
Xing Chen ◽  
Jun Su
Keyword(s):  
Economic System ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Rural Poverty ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Perceived Social Status ◽  
Private Entrepreneurs ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activities

Social entrepreneurship plays an important role in local development in emerging economies, but scholars have paid little attention to this emerging phenomenon. Under the theory of moral sentiments, we posit that some entrepreneurs are altruistically motivated to promote a morally effective economic system by engaging in social entrepreneurial activities. Focusing on China's Guangcai (Glorious) Program, a social entrepreneurship program initiated by China's private entrepreneurs to combat poverty and contribute to regional development, we find that private entrepreneurs are motivated to participate in such programs if they have more past distressing experiences, including limited educational opportunities, unemployment experience, rural poverty experience, and startup location hardship. Their perceived social status further strengthens these relationships. Our study contributes to the social entrepreneurship literature by offering a moral sentiment perspective that explains why some entrepreneurs voluntarily join a social entrepreneurship program to mitigate poverty in society.

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