Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises
By Tina Saebi, N. J. Foss, Stefan Linder. Journal of Management, 2018
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The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in social entrepreneurship (SE). This has resulted in important insights concerning the role of SE in fostering inclusive growth and institutional change. However, the rapid growth of SE research, the emerging nature of the literature, and the fact that SE builds on different disciplines and fields (e.g., entrepreneurship, sociology, economics, ethics) have led to a rather fragmented literature without dominant frameworks. This situation risks leading to a duplication of efforts and hampers cumulative knowledge growth. Drawing on 395 peer-reviewed articles on SE, we (1) identify gaps in SE research on three levels of analysis (i.e., individual, organizational, institutional), (2) proffer an integrative multistage, multilevel framework, and (3) discuss promising avenues for further research on SE.
Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations Are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development (2020, background): “Considerable debate persists about the nature and identity of the social entrepreneur, the tensions between social and commercial outcomes, and the definition of social value (Dacin et al., 2010; Saebi et al., 2019; Wry & York, 2017).”
- The relationship between social entrepreneurship and sustainable development from economic growth perspective: 15 ‘RCEP’ countries (2021, background): “…of social and economic value creation acts, and while social entrepreneurship has been touted as a powerful mechanism to alleviate poverty and bring about institutional change (Saebi, Foss, and Linder 2019); the literature could not find any hard, longitudinal evidence to back up these claims.”