, this article focuses on contextual influences on social entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa. We identify four …-perception and the choice of activities in defining social entrepreneurship. Our study also highlights the importance of African … contextual dimensions for understanding social entrepreneurship, and underlines the added value of incorporating insights from …

Over the last decade, the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship has experienced impressive growth in different …

The concept of social entrepreneurship is discussed and examined for its potential to support sustainable value …

Despite the growing attention to social entrepreneurship as a scholarly field of research, it is still in a stage of … 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 …

Research on social entrepreneurship has taken an increasing interest in issues pertaining to ideology. In contrast to … conceives ideology as a key mechanism for rendering social entrepreneurship an object with which people can identify …. Specifically, drawing on qualitative research of arguably one of the most prolific social entrepreneurship intermediaries, the …

Opportunity recognition (OR) is at the very heart of entrepreneurship. However, research on OR in the context of social … entrepreneurship is still in its early stages. First, this article identifies, codifies and analyses OR-relevant articles on social … entrepreneurship (SE) through the lens of Sarasvathy's three views of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition. In the second step …