Volume : 9, Issue : 12, DEC 2023

DEFINITIONAL ISSUES IN SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A REVIEW

PRACHI

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship has been gaining greater momentum from the public sector as well as from scholars. However, there is a lack of unifying paradigm in the field of social entrepreneurship that leads to proliferation of definitions of social entrepreneurship. In fact the debate on social entrepreneurship is emerged as a serious issue in research and academia. Since existing researchers and research organizations are unable to provide a unified and universal definition of social entrepreneurship, many researchers who are working on social entrepreneurship are requested to develop a universally accepted definition in order to understand and observe the phenomena of social entrepreneurship. The objective of this paper is to clarify the definitional part of social entrepreneurship. The paper will review different literatures on social entrepreneurship available in reputed academic journals. The study will focus on various definitional issues on social entrepreneurship.

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