Social Entrepreneurship: An exploratory citation analysis

Sascha Kraus, Matthias Filser, Michele O’Dwyer, Eleanor Shaw

Research output: Contribution to journalReview articlepeer-review

Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)275-292
Number of pages18
JournalReview of Managerial Science
Volume8
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Mar 2014

Keywords

  • Bibliometrics
  • Citation analysis
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Social Entrepreneurship

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