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To enhance the understanding of social entrepreneurship, researchers have to reach a consensus on the construct of definitions and, in doing so, acknowledge the diversity of research interests involved in the study of social entrepreneurship. The purpose of the chapter is to present a state-of-the-art review and a bibliographical analysis of the field of social entrepreneurship. We highlight and analyse the extent to which research has devoted significant attention to social entrepreneurship, what individual researchers have published about social entrepreneurship topics, and how they have engaged in areas of discussion and made contributions. In a response to the lack of published research and incremental knowledge-building, the chapter further maps the prominent issues discussed in the social entrepreneurship literature and outlines some possible emergent research dialogues. One presumption in our study is that the discussions in the most cited articles have had a major impact on the direction of the contemporary social entrepreneurship discourse. In this vein, the study highlights key contributors and contributions to the multidisciplinary field of social entrepreneurship, and the relationships between individual contributions and the broader discussion in the literature.
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Pierre, A., von Friedrichs, Y., Wincent, J. (2014). A Review of Social Entrepreneurship Research. In: Lundström, A., Zhou, C., von Friedrichs, Y., Sundin, E. (eds) Social Entrepreneurship. International Studies in Entrepreneurship, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01396-1_3
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