A New Focus on Nonprofit ­Entrepreneurship Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrik O. Andersson
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Nonprofit Entrepreneurship

Balancing Agency with Structure: Institutional Entrepreneurship as an Embedded Discovery Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 239395752110106
Author(s):  
Desmond Ng
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Discovery Process ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Dual Structure ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
Institutional Researchers

While mainstream research has treated entrepreneurship as a highly individualised and agentic process, institutional researchers contend that entrepreneurship operates within a greater embedded setting. Various researchers have appealed to Giddens’ dual structure to explain an entrepreneur’s embedded-agency. According to Giddens’ dual structure, this embedded-agency consists of the rules or norms of a social group in which these rules constrain and enable an entrepreneur’s resources. Yet, despite Giddens’ contributions, Giddens is criticised for conflating the rules of this embedded setting with an entrepreneur’s resources in which neither affects the other in any significant way. By drawing on concepts of the Austrian entrepreneur and embeddedness, a theory of institutional entrepreneurship is developed to address this conflation problem. This institutional entrepreneurship offers an embedded-agency to explain how an entrepreneur can create, maintain and disrupt their embedded social settings. This embedded-agency addresses Giddens’ conflation problem and broadens the agent-centric focus of institutional entrepreneurship research.

scholarly journals Social Entrepreneurship Research: Intellectual Structures and Future Perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7532
Author(s):  
Giuseppina Maria Cardella ◽  
Brizeida Raquel Hernández-Sánchez ◽  
Alcides Almeida Monteiro ◽  
José Carlos Sánchez-García
Keyword(s):  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Scientific Journal ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Bibliometric Method ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Network Culture ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Education Network

Social entrepreneurship (SE) is an emerging research field that has received much scholarly attention in recent years. Given the global scope of this attention, this review explores the existing scientific literature on social entrepreneurship to contribute to a systematization of the research field. Based on the publications in Web of Science and Scopus, a total of 1425 scientific articles were analyzed. We used the bibliometric method to describe the evolution of social entrepreneurship research (e.g., evaluation by years, authors, scientific journal articles, and countries in the SE literature that have had the greatest impact in terms of production). In addition, we used the mapping of knowledge networks through the citations and co-citations analysis to identify schools of thought. A keyword co-occurrence analysis was performed to detect key research topics over the years. The results show that, although the research is still in a nascent phase, it has a multidisciplinary character. Furthermore, social entrepreneurship appears to be a concept closely linked to three schools of thought: commercial entrepreneurship, sustainable entrepreneurship, and social innovation. The keywords analysis allowed us to isolate the constructs that the literature has considered antecedents (e.g., socio-psychological factors) and accelerators (e.g., education, network, culture, and gender) to the development of social entrepreneurial intention. We will further discuss the ways researchers can explore this research field and contribute to the global literature.

scholarly journals Multi-faceted insights of entrepreneurship facing a fast-growing economy: A literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Hoang Vuong ◽  
Viet Phuong La ◽  
Thu Trang Vuong ◽  
Phuong Hanh Hoang ◽  
Manh Toan Ho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Emerging Economies ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Middle Income Country ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Entrepreneurship Research ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Growing Economy

AbstractThis study explores entrepreneurship research in Vietnam, a lower-middle-income country in Southeast Asia that has witnessed rapid economic growth since the 1990s but has nonetheless been absent in the relevant Western-centric literature. Using an exclusively developed software, the study presents a structured dataset on entrepreneurship research in Vietnam from 2008 to 2018, highlighting: low research output, low creativity level, inattention to entrepreneurship theories, and instead, a focus on practical business matters. The scholarship remains limited due to the detachment between the academic and entrepreneur communities. More important are the findings that Vietnamese research on entrepreneurship, still in its infancy, diverges significantly from those in developed and emerging economies in terms of their content and methods. These studies are contextualized to a large extent to reflect the concerns of a developing economy still burdened by the high financial and nonfinancial costs.

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