A Literature Review of Social Entrepreneurship

Social entrepreneurship has increasingly emerged as an important strength for solving social problems and promoting social innovation, and has quietly become an emerging issue in management. This paper is based on antecedents-processes-performance of social entrepreneurship. The perspectives and theories mainly involve theory of planned behavior, entrepreneurial intention model; Hockers modified model, social capital theory, social network theory, institutional theory, event system theory, performance measurement model, etc. The results show that the research mainly focuses on the antecedents, establishment and management of social entrepreneurship, but less attention of sociological perspectives such as social governance and population theory, and also lacks attention to entrepreneurial performance. The theoretical framework of social entrepreneurship needs to be further improved. Finally, it was pointed out that future research topics should focus more on the internal problems of social enterprises, the interplay of factors affecting social entrepreneurship, the disciplinary study of social entrepreneurship, and the institutional and cultural context of different countries.