Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises

• DOI: 10.1177/0149206318793196
• Publication Date: 2018-08-14T21:10:32Z
• Authors: Tina Saebi; Nicolai J. Foss; Stefan Linder
• Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship

The past decade has witnessed a surge of research interest in social entrepreneurship (SE). This resulted important insights concerning the role SE fostering inclusive growth and institutional change. However, rapid research, emerging nature literature, fact that builds on different disciplines fields (e.g., entrepreneurship, sociology, economics, ethics) have led to rather fragmented literature without dominant frameworks. situation risks leading duplication efforts hampers cumulative knowledge growth. Drawing 395 peer-reviewed articles SE, we (1) identify gaps three levels analysis (i.e., individual, organizational, institutional), (2) proffer an integrative multistage, multilevel framework, (3) discuss promising avenues for further SE.