Mapping the intellectual structure of social entrepreneurship research: a citation/co-citation analysis

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 referen...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of business ethics
VerfasserInnen: Hota, Pradeep Kumar (VerfasserIn) ; Subramanian, Balaji (VerfasserIn) ; Narayanamurthy, Gopalakrishnan (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2020
In: Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 2020, Band: 166, Heft: 1, Seiten: 89-114
weitere Schlagwörter:B Business Ethics
B Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
B Co-citation analysis
B citation analysis
B Social Entrepreneurship
B bibliometric analysis
B Intellectual structure
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:1573-0697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s10551-019-04129-4