Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Hoogendoorn, B.
Author-Name-Last: Hoogendoorn
Author-Name-First: Brigitte
Author-Name: Pennings, H.P.G.
Author-Name-Last: Pennings
Author-Name-First: Enrico
Author-Person: ppe274
Author-Name: Thurik, A.R.
Author-Name-Last: Thurik
Author-Name-First: Roy
Author-Person: pth26
Title: What do We Know about Social Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Empirical Research
Abstract: Despite the growing attention to social entrepreneurship as a scholarly field of research, it is still in a stage of infancy. Research in the past two decades has been primarily dedicated to establishing a conceptual foundation, which has resulted in a considerable stream of conceptual papers. Empirical articles have gradually appeared since the turn of the century. Although they are still outnumbered by conceptual articles, empirical articles are of considerable significance for the evolution of social entrepreneurship as a field of scientific inquiry. The purpose of this paper is to gauge the current state of empirical research in the field by reviewing 31 empirical research studies on social entrepreneurship, classifying them along four dimensions and summarising research findings for each of these dimensions. To serve this purpose in a meaningful fashion requires discriminating between different perspectives on social entrepreneurship. Hence, four different schools of thought are presented, and the articles in our sample are classified accordingly.
Creation-Date: 2010-06-01
File-URL: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/16558/ERS-2009-044-ORG.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Series: RePEc:ems:eureri
Number: ERS-2009-044-ORG
Classification-JEL: M, M13, O32
Keywords: definition, empirical research, school of thought, social entrepreneurship
Handle: RePEc:ems:eureri:16558