Author(s): Biju S K, Sajithkumar P, Biju T and Vijayakumar V
Social entrepreneurship is a kind of entrepreneurship wherein entrepreneurial initiatives are undertaken with the intention of addressing social issues and devising novel and creative ways of tackling the social issues and suggest effective solutions to the social issues. The present study is carried out uncover the theoretical foundations and knowledge base of social entrepreneurship research for the past five years from 2018 to 2022 through a systematic review of literature approach. The data for the paper is obtained from the Dimensions data base and various bibliometric analysis techniques such as “citation, co-citation, bibliographic coupling and term co-occurrence analysis” is performed through Vosviewer software to find out the most influential works, authors, sources and terms with regard to social entrepreneurship literature.