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A Social Entrepreneurship Bibliography

Chitvan Trivedi
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A Social Entrepreneurship
Bibliography
CHITVAN TRIVEDI
This bibliography is an attempt to list the most relevant material on the topic of
social entrepreneurship published within the past two decades. The Academic
Search Complete and Web of Science databases were used to conduct a literature
search using the keywords social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and social
entrepreneur. The literature search was limited to peer-reviewed journal articles
and books published between 1989 and 2009. Since academic interest in social
entrepreneurship is a relatively new phenomenon, very little research in this area
was conducted before 1989. Two seminal pre-1989 articles were included in this list:
Banks (1972), who first coined the term social entrepreneur in the context of the
sociology of social movements; and Drucker (1979), who first introduced the concept
of social enterprise while advocating ethical responsibilities of corporations.
Only articles and books in which social entrepreneurship, social enterprises or
social entrepreneurs were the main focus and had an important role in either the
formulation of an empirical study or the development of a conceptual framework
were included in this list. Articles that merely mentioned these terms or in which
these concepts did not play a major role were not included. Mention may be made
of online resources, such as technical reports, unpublished manuscripts, conference
papers and white papers. All but two such articles, Dees (2001) and Alter (2004), were
excluded from this list. The artcile by Dees (2001) titled, The meaning of social
entrepreneurship, is a significant conceptual contribution to the field and has been
cited 211 times since its publication online. Alters article (2004) that presents a
typology of social enterprises is yet another important theoretical contribution and
has been cited 35 times since it was published online.
It is hoped that this systematic and thorough listing of relevant work in the area
of social entrepreneurship will be of assistance to scholars in a field in which the
literature, to date, has been fragmented and disjointed. It will be much appreciated
if the unintentional omission of any relevant articles and books is brought to the
attention of the author.
Chitvan Trivedi is a Doctoral Student in Social Ecology and a Teaching Associate
in the School of Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, USA.

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