Social entrepreneurship research has recently been presented in literature as a field of action in a pre-paradigmatic state, a field that lacks an established epistemology. Despite that important facet, several major qualitative and quantitative studies have already been undertaken on the sole...

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....