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Social Entrepreneurship and Institutional Factors: A Literature Review

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Social Entrepreneurship in Non-Profit and Profit Sectors

Part of the book series: International Studies in Entrepreneurship ((ISEN,volume 36))

Abstract

During recent decades, the interest of academia and policy-makers in social entrepreneurship has been increasing, due to its impact on social and economic development. The main objective of this chapter is to explore the content and methodology used in social entrepreneurship research focusing on the institutional economics perspective. The literature review was based on articles published in top journals, especially those included in the Web of Science. The main findings suggest that social entrepreneurship literature has tended to focus describing experiences of the most popular social entrepreneurs, their personal characteristics and their key success factors. Additionally, the vast majority of the literature is classified as conceptual research. Likewise, empirical research is characterized by the use of case study methodology. The study has both theoretical (for the development of the literature in the social entrepreneurship field) and empirical implications.

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    Web of Science (formerly ISI Web of Knowledge) is an online subscription-based scientific citation indexing service maintained by Thomson Reuters that provides a comprehensive citation search. This unified research platform serves for finding, analyzing and sharing information in the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.

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    Journal Citation Reports (JCR) is an annual publication by Thomson Reuters. It has been integrated with the Web of Science and provides information about academic journals in the sciences and social sciences, including impact factors. Currently, the JCR is based on citations compiled from the Science Citation Index Expanded and the Social Science Citation Index.

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David Urbano acknowledges the financial support from projects ECO2013-44027-P (Spanish Ministry of Economy & Competitiveness) and 2014-SGR-1626 (Economy & Knowledge Department—Catalan Government–). Also, Sebastian Aparicio acknowledges financial support for Ph.D. studies from COLCIENCIAS Ph.D. Program Chapter 3 (617/2013) and Fundación ECSIM.

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Urbano, D., Ferri, E., Peris-Ortiz, M., Aparicio, S. (2017). Social Entrepreneurship and Institutional Factors: A Literature Review. In: Peris-Ortiz, M., Teulon, F., Bonet-Fernandez, D. (eds) Social Entrepreneurship in Non-Profit and Profit Sectors. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50850-4_2

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