Gaining Insights from Future Research Topics in Social Entrepreneurship: A Content-Analytic Approach

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Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

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Title:	Gaining Insights from Future Research Topics in Social Entrepreneurship: A Content-Analytic Approach
Author(s):	David Gras, Elaine Mosakowski, G.T. Lumpkin
Volume:	13 Editor(s): G.T. Lumpkin, Jerome A. Katz ISBN: 978-1-78052-072-8 eISBN: 978-1-78052-073-5
Citation:	David Gras, Elaine Mosakowski, G.T. Lumpkin (2011), Gaining Insights from Future Research Topics in Social Entrepreneurship: A Content-Analytic Approach, in G.T. Lumpkin, Jerome A. Katz (ed.) Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship (Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth, Volume 13), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, pp.25-50
DOI:	10.1108/S1074-7540(2011)0000013006 (Permanent URL)
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Article type:	Chapter Item
Abstract:	To identify what scholars consider to be important and interesting for future research in social entrepreneurship (SE), this chapter analyzes 248 SE papers and generated 327 topics for future research. From these 327 topics, a modified Delphi process generated 27 underlying themes. Subject matter experts were surveyed as to how interesting each research topic is and the extent to which the topics lend themselves to theoretical or empirical development; this assessment was also used to calculate aggregate scores for each theme. In this chapter, we present all research topics that scored at or above 2.5 on a 5-point scale for both questions. We discuss the implications of both the method and the results of the study.