RT Article
T1 Mapping the intellectual structure of social entrepreneurship research: a citation/co-citation analysis
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 166
IS 1
SP 89
OP 114
A1 Hota, Pradeep Kumar
A1 Subramanian, Balaji
A1 Narayanamurthy, Gopalakrishnan
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/173468173X
AB In this paper, we employ bibliometric analysis to empirically analyse the research on social entrepreneurship published between 1996 and 2017. By employing methods of citation analysis, document co-citation analysis, and social network analysis, we analyse 1296 papers containing 74,237 cited references and uncover the structure, or intellectual base, of research on social entrepreneurship. We identify nine distinct clusters of social entrepreneurship research that depict the intellectual structure of the field. The results provide an overall perspective of the social entrepreneurship field, identifying its influential works and analysing scholarly communication between these works. The results further aid in clarifying the overall centrality features of the social entrepreneurship research network. We also examine the integration of ethics into social entrepreneurship literature. We conclude with a discussion on the structure and evolution of the social entrepreneurship field.
K1 bibliometric analysis
K1 Business Ethics
K1 citation analysis
K1 Co-citation analysis
K1 Intellectual structure
K1 Social Entrepreneurship
K1 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
DO 10.1007/s10551-019-04129-4