Social entrepreneurship – essayistic training supported by cartographic-categorical insights
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35977/0104-1096.cct2022.v39.26932Keywords:
social enterprise, social businesses, social organizationsAbstract
This study aims to provide contributions to the configuration of the social entrepreneurship theme in Brazilian research. This study performs a systematic review and adds two analyses to better understand the cartography of 47 national researches on the subject, from 2014 to 2020. Through lexical analysis, made possible by the Iramuteq software, combined with content analysis, from the perspective of categorization, and supported by the ATLAS.ti software, configuration elements and possibilities of theoretical insights were gathered and discussed for further analysis through theorization processes, which that theme requires. Five clusters are discussed: academic production (18.6%, ECUs), research methodologies (24.2%, ECUs), social questions/analysis/problems (24.8%, ECUs), social management (of/for/from), (16.8%, ECUs), and engagement (15.5%, ECUs). In summary, the results show the resulting theoretical weaknesses and problems, and brings about discussions on networks, social impacts, conceptual imagination, creativity (creation of social value), relational learning, entrepreneurial process, social agents/actors, collective processes and responsive leadership, given the contribution of social entrepreneurship in the sewing of concrete possibilities of developments that add to life in society.