... 02 06 2025 04 12 2025 12 03 2026 19 04 2026 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social entrepreneurship Perceived scalability Absorptive capacity Entrepreneurial competencies UNWE Research Programme 21...

...Rachid Jabbouri; Helmi Issa; Yann Truong Purpose This research explores how artificial intelligence's (AI’s) distinct capabilities (interactivity, autonomy, inscrutability and abstraction), manifested as unique characteristics, impact decision-making in resource-limited social entrepreneurship...

... Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Social capital Qualitative techniques Entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship Dependence on financial resources is a key factor in the decision to undertake entrepreneurship (Pfeffer and Salancik, 2003) and can constitute an additional obstacle...

... both positive financial returns and social or environmental impact. Originality/value By integrating imprinting, signaling and human capital theories, this study offers a unique and comprehensive empirical contribution to the literature on social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial growth...

... social entrepreneurs’ age has a positive role in forming LWL SEIs, associated experience, skills, knowledge and sense of urgency acting as a catalyst, facilitating rather than hindering social and economic participation. It contributes to the social entrepreneurship literature by advancing current...

...Julia Taferner; Karl-Heinz Leitner Purpose This study addresses the intersection of team gender composition, social entrepreneurship and new venture performance, aiming to understand the unique dynamics shaping these areas. The authors discuss why female and diverse founding teams often gravitate...

... entrepreneurship and society. This stems from the institutional analysis of entrepreneurship as a catalyst for personal realization, industrial development, economic growth and social inclusion. Economic growth Entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship Institutions International aspects complicate...

...Jeffrey Muldoon; William C. McDowell; Robert Konopaske; Matteo Cristofaro Purpose This paper explores the often overlooked and novel academic concept of honest incompetence as a potential “dark” side of social entrepreneurship, where well-intentioned but inadequately skilled agents hinder...

..., on social entrepreneurship (SE) participation. Design/methodology/approach Using data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) survey combined with other international databases, this study applies a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) to identify the pathways that how state, market...

... the complex processes of social entrepreneurship by revealing how sensemaking, theorising, strategizing and sensegiving underpin the core processes of problem specification, the formulation of theories of change, development of new business models and the implementation of social innovations. Originality...

...Franklin Nakpodia; Folajimi Ashiru; Jacqueline Jing You; Oluwasola Oni Purpose Social entrepreneurship (SE) is a complex phenomenon designed to resolve numerous societal challenges while remaining economically viable. However, how social entrepreneurs in developing countries have deployed digital...

... the pragmatist perspective of social opportunities by using Davidsson's model to explain the components of theories about what may or may not be a social opportunity. Entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship Opportunity Much like commercial opportunities, scholars have sought to understand social...

... (Estrin et al., 2016). Also, the scientific study of the variables that influence the types of entrepreneurial outcomes coming from different types of backgrounds is still limited (Roncancio et al., 2020). Human capital Social entrepreneurship Academic entrepreneurship...

...Jonathan Kimmitt; Vesna Mandakovic; Pablo Muñoz Purpose Social entrepreneurs engage in action because social entrepreneurs want to solve social problems. Consequently, to see more social entrepreneurship in contexts with the most severe social problems is expected. This paper argues...

... rights only Paradox theory Social enterprise Social entrepreneurship Dilemmas Dialectics In their review of “classic” management theory articles, Kilduff and Dougherty (2000 , p. 778) stress how important it is for management scholars to “engage in the active critique of the rarely...

...Nadiya Parekh; Laurence Attuel-Mendès Purpose Social entrepreneurship is gaining increased attention from academia and practitioners worldwide. Owing to its financing challenges, academic pedagogies are seeking methods to strengthen the social financing dimension of this emerging discipline...

..., which is far more complex than the notion of “one size fits all,” challenging the nature of the claimed differences between traditional and social entrepreneurship. Through this approach, this study makes two main contributions. First, it adds to the literature on EIs by integrating CLT (Trope...

...Ezlika M. Ghazali; Dilip S. Mutum; Haleh Hakim Javadi Purpose This study presents a framework for integrating distinct perspectives on social entrepreneurship by combining institutional theory with the social entrepreneurship intention model. The framework assesses the relationships between social...

...Rebecca Stirzaker; Laura Galloway; Jatta Muhonen; Dimitris Christopoulos Purpose The paper refers to the drivers of social entrepreneurship and critically explores the notion that it is prompted by a personal mission to enable some social or ideologically motivated altruism. It refers to Shapero's...

...Boris Urban; Jabulile Galawe Scholars researching entrepreneurship argue that the distinct characteristics of social entrepreneurs, together with the particular category of opportunities they pursue, invite us to further understand social entrepreneurship (SE) as a distinct field...