Scientific mapping and thematic progression of digitalization of social entrepreneurship in developing countries

Information technologies are being extensively used by social entrepreneurs to achieve their social and financial goals. Studies on the convergence of social entrepreneurship with digital entrepreneurship is, nevertheless, lacking. Also, studies that relate corporate social responsibility (CSR), inn...

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Main Authors: Abdella Kosa Chebo, Shepherd Dhliwayo
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-06-01
Series:Sustainable Futures
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188824000030
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description Information technologies are being extensively used by social entrepreneurs to achieve their social and financial goals. Studies on the convergence of social entrepreneurship with digital entrepreneurship is, nevertheless, lacking. Also, studies that relate corporate social responsibility (CSR), innovation, sustainability, and the integrated notion of digitalization of social entrepreneurship (DSE) are also questioned. This study sought to identify prospective topics for future researches to link DSE with various parameters by conducting a bibliometric review utilizing data pulled from the Scopus database. The clustering by document coupling analysis pinpointed to the industry 4.0 and digital economy themes, as well as to more specialized, COVID-19, innovation, sustainable development, and CSR themes. The study identified a number of themes that are under appreciated, such as social innovation, agro-ecology, and agriculture. The keyword co-occurrence network mostly identified five study areas, social entrepreneurship intentions, social enterprise sustainability and economic growth, sustainable development and socio-economic effects of DSE, entrepreneurs' social innovation and business development, and industry 4.0, the digital economy and CSR.
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spelling doaj.art-d729be43421748c2a189f93f2b82d71e2024-06-16T05:46:54ZengElsevierSustainable Futures2666-18882024-06-017100153Scientific mapping and thematic progression of digitalization of social entrepreneurship in developing countriesAbdella Kosa Chebo0Shepherd Dhliwayo1Kotebe University of Education and Research Associate University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Corresponding author.Department of Business Management, University of Johannesburg, South AfricaInformation technologies are being extensively used by social entrepreneurs to achieve their social and financial goals. Studies on the convergence of social entrepreneurship with digital entrepreneurship is, nevertheless, lacking. Also, studies that relate corporate social responsibility (CSR), innovation, sustainability, and the integrated notion of digitalization of social entrepreneurship (DSE) are also questioned. This study sought to identify prospective topics for future researches to link DSE with various parameters by conducting a bibliometric review utilizing data pulled from the Scopus database. The clustering by document coupling analysis pinpointed to the industry 4.0 and digital economy themes, as well as to more specialized, COVID-19, innovation, sustainable development, and CSR themes. The study identified a number of themes that are under appreciated, such as social innovation, agro-ecology, and agriculture. The keyword co-occurrence network mostly identified five study areas, social entrepreneurship intentions, social enterprise sustainability and economic growth, sustainable development and socio-economic effects of DSE, entrepreneurs' social innovation and business development, and industry 4.0, the digital economy and CSR.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666188824000030DigitalizationSocial entrepreneurshipThematic progressionScientific mapping
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Scientific mapping and thematic progression of digitalization of social entrepreneurship in developing countries
Sustainable Futures
Digitalization
Social entrepreneurship
Thematic progression
Scientific mapping
title Scientific mapping and thematic progression of digitalization of social entrepreneurship in developing countries
title_full Scientific mapping and thematic progression of digitalization of social entrepreneurship in developing countries
title_fullStr Scientific mapping and thematic progression of digitalization of social entrepreneurship in developing countries
title_full_unstemmed Scientific mapping and thematic progression of digitalization of social entrepreneurship in developing countries
title_short Scientific mapping and thematic progression of digitalization of social entrepreneurship in developing countries
title_sort scientific mapping and thematic progression of digitalization of social entrepreneurship in developing countries
topic Digitalization
Social entrepreneurship
Thematic progression
Scientific mapping
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