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Introduction: Methodological Issues in Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge and Practice

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Methodological Issues in Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge and Practice

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In the last decades, new wave of economic development has become the world order and hence the scholarly attention. The gaps or distortions due to ‘this order’ were also noticed and reported to become a major provocation for searching newer ways for inclusive growth. At the same time, global issues related to climate change and sustainable development were also added to the academic debate. This was felt necessary due to the severity of poverty, hunger and basic health and sanitation-related issues the world over. This search for newer ways of the development was obvious, wherein ‘social entrepreneurship’ provided a new hope.

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    Bibliometrics deals with the creation and usage of (quantitative) measures and indicators for science and technology-based bibliographic information (Van Leeuwen 2004).

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    We have included and appropriately referred them in this chapter.

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    The ten most cited authors in order of highest citations have been Dees (The meaning of social entrepreneurship, 1998), Bornstein (How to change the world: Social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas, 2007), Borzaga (The emergence of social enterprise, 2004), Deakins and Freel (Entrepreneurship and small firms, 1996), Leadbeater (The rise of the social entrepreneur, 1997), Mair and Martí (Social entrepreneurship research: A source of explanation, prediction, and delight, 2006), Austin, Stevenson and Wei-Skillern (Social and commercial entrepreneurship: same, different, or both? 2006), Yunus (Creating a world without poverty: Social business and the future of capitalism, 2009), Peredo and McLean (Social entrepreneurship: A critical review of the concept, 2006) and Eikenberry (The marketization of the nonprofit sector: civil society at risk? 2004) (Source Sassmannshausen and Volkmann 2013). This is an indicative list based on one bibliometric study and does not depict popularity of any particular author as compared to the others.

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  1. School of Management and Labour Studies, Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, VN Purav Marg, Deonar PO, Mumbai, 400088, India

    Satyajit Majumdar & Edakkandi Meethal Reji

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Majumdar, S., Reji, E.M. (2020). Introduction: Methodological Issues in Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge and Practice. In: Majumdar, S., Reji, E. (eds) Methodological Issues in Social Entrepreneurship Knowledge and Practice. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9769-1_1

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