Assessing the Impact of Social Entrepreneurship Research: Insights from Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship has emerged as a powerful force to address societal challenges while fostering sustainable development. As the field continues to grow, it is important to assess the impact of social entrepreneurship research as it is increasingly important to inform future policy initiatives and decisions. This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis that aims to assess the scholarly landscape and impact of social entrepreneurship research from 2019 to 2023. Utilising bibliometric techniques, including citation analysis, co-citation analysis, and keyword co-occurrence analysis, can systematically map scholarly results, identify the main research theme, and reveal the influential works and authors in the field of this study. Our findings reveal the growth trajectory of social entrepreneurship research where it can highlight emerging trends, key research clusters and influential stakeholders who have studied the field extensively. Additionally, through network analysis, clarify the interconnectedness of research domains and knowledge flows in the social entrepreneurship ecosystem. By synthesising these views, this study provides valuable implications for researchers, practitioners and policymakers who wish to advance the theory and practice of social entrepreneurship. Furthermore, it emphasises the importance of bibliometric analysis as a powerful tool to assess the impact and shape future research direction in social entrepreneurship. This bibliometric analysis can also unravel the current patterns and developments in social entrepreneurship. In terms of contemporary social entrepreneurship trends, researchers can see which countries have made significant contributions to the research field. Standard document types, resource categories and languages used in the social entrepreneurship domain can be translated in this bibliometric analysis. Researchers can also see that the title of the main source with the most publications and citations in social entrepreneurship can be linked. Next, bibliometric analysis can reveal which authors have achieved significant recognition in the domain of social entrepreneurship. The researcher also identified the main theme that is important in the context of social entrepreneurship. The advantages and disadvantages in assessing the impact of social entrepreneurship should be continued and discussed from time to time to deal with new problems as well as existing problems. The researcher has evaluated a total of 274 publications that have been found through the Scopus index using this bibliometric study. Social entrepreneurship is a field of analysis carried out by 160 writers. The keywords that can be seen in this study are social entrepreneurship, business, management and accounting, which shows how important this study is to all.