Conceptualizing social entrepreneurship: perspectives from the literature

Joao Ferreira, Cristina I. Fernandes (), Marta Peres-Ortiz () and Helena Alves ()
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Cristina I. Fernandes: Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco & NECE – Research Unit of Business Sciences Covilhã
Marta Peres-Ortiz: Universitat Politècnica de València

International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing, 2017, vol. 14, issue 1, No 5, 73-93

Abstract: Abstract Social entrepreneurship is an emerging trend that has attracted the interest of the most diverse researchers whether due to the characteristics of the social entrepreneur or the type of surrounding environments that prove most propitious to the emergence of this particular type of entrepreneurship. This study attempts to identify the main theoretical characteristics of social entrepreneurship through recourse to bibliometric analysis based on co-citations. The results enable the aggregation of the state of the art in social entrepreneurship across four perspectives: social value, well-being embeddedness, internationalization and institutional.

Keywords: Social entrepreneurship; Social entrepreneur; Bibliometric analysis; Co-citations; Intellectual structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s12208-016-0165-8

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