Produção científica sobre empreendedorismo social e construção de uma agenda para pesquisa futuras: um Estudo Bibliométrico na base Web Of Science (1994-2018)

Abstract

Research objective: is study aims to analyze how the international literature on social entrepreneurship is configured and to build a research agenda for future studies. eoretical framework: ere are multiple definitions for the concept of social entrepreneurship. In a broad perspective, the concept is related to the creation of social value. us, the counterpoint with private entrepreneurship in relation to the final purpose guides the studies on social entrepreneurship. Methodology: A bibliometric analysis was performed. e data were collected from the Web of Science database. To perform the search, the term “social entrepreneurship” was used in the title of the articles. All base years were considered until 2018. For bibliometric analysis, the CiteSpace soware was used. e research agenda was built from research suggestions proposed in articles published in 2018.