TY - JOUR
T1 - Social Entrepreneurship
T2 - An exploratory citation analysis
AU - Kraus, Sascha
AU - Filser, Matthias
AU - O’Dwyer, Michele
AU - Shaw, Eleanor
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
PY - 2014/3/1
Y1 - 2014/3/1
N2 - Research on Social Entrepreneurship became a growing field of interest during the past decades. However, as the heterogeneity of investigated topics is rather large the purpose of this contribution is to provide an overview of the current state of research on Social Entrepreneurship. In doing so previous research is structured to identify major contributions and thereby key discussion lines within this field. Based on a bibliometric citation analysis of 129 core papers and 5,228 cited references, five topic clusters are identified within the field of Social Entrepreneurship: 1) Definitions and conceptual approaches, 2) Impetus, 3) Personality, 4) Impact and performance, and 5) Future research agenda. By reflecting the literature of each discussion line, a framework for the advancement of Social Entrepreneurship research is provided.
AB - Research on Social Entrepreneurship became a growing field of interest during the past decades. However, as the heterogeneity of investigated topics is rather large the purpose of this contribution is to provide an overview of the current state of research on Social Entrepreneurship. In doing so previous research is structured to identify major contributions and thereby key discussion lines within this field. Based on a bibliometric citation analysis of 129 core papers and 5,228 cited references, five topic clusters are identified within the field of Social Entrepreneurship: 1) Definitions and conceptual approaches, 2) Impetus, 3) Personality, 4) Impact and performance, and 5) Future research agenda. By reflecting the literature of each discussion line, a framework for the advancement of Social Entrepreneurship research is provided.
KW - Bibliometrics
KW - Citation analysis
KW - Entrepreneurship
KW - Social Entrepreneurship
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84928016690&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11846-013-0104-6
DO - 10.1007/s11846-013-0104-6
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84928016690
SN - 1863-6683
VL - 8
SP - 275
EP - 292
JO - Review of Managerial Science
JF - Review of Managerial Science
IS - 2
ER -