Social Entrepreneurship and Complex Thinking: A Bibliometric Study
Abstract
:1. Introduction
1.1. On the Competency of Complex Thinking
1.2. About the Social Entrepreneurship Competency
1.3. About Bibliometric Studies
- By activity: They display the number and distribution of publications, productivity, dispersion, collaboration, and connection between authors.
- By impact: These are based on the impact factor of the text, i.e., the frequency of text citations in a year, thus making it possible to compare articles and journals and to assess their importance within the scientific field.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Defining Research Questions
2.2. Definition of Inclusion and Exclusion Criterion
2.3. Search for Descriptors
2.4. Data Collection and Analysis
2.5. Data Representation
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Sub-Competencies | Indicators |
---|---|
Self-Control | Motivation |
Perseverance and resilience | |
Tolerance of uncertainty and ambiguity: stress mastery | |
Leadership | Strategic planning |
Communication and persuasion | |
Mobilizing people | |
Collaborative working | |
Social awareness and social value | Social involvement |
Empathy | |
Identification of social/environmental issues | |
Orientation towards sustainability | |
Ethical sense | |
Social innovation and financial sustainability | Creativity |
Economic and financial literacy | |
Valuing ideas, outcomes, and impacts on the environment and people | |
Learning and adaptability | |
Management of limited resources for social projects |
Dimension | Research Questions | Possible Answers Based on Literature |
---|---|---|
Scope | RQ1. What type of entrepreneurship is addressed? | 1. Traditional entrepreneurship |
2. Social entrepreneurship | ||
RQ2. Do you address the relationship between social entrepreneurship and complex thinking? | 1. Yes | |
2. No | ||
Project approaches and trends | RQ3. If you address the relationship, which of the sub-competencies of complex thinking do you employ? | 1. Scientific Thinking |
2. Critical Thinking | ||
3. Innovative/Creative Thinking | ||
4. Systemic Thinking | ||
Metrics | RQ4. What is the annual production per the established search chains? | Number of publications per year |
RQ5. What are the prominent authors, countries, and areas of knowledge that focus on the relationship between social entrepreneurship and complex thinking? | Author, country, and area of knowledge | |
RQ6. Which authors present the most substantial intellectual structure regarding social entrepreneurship and complex thinking? | Intellectual structure network of authors | |
RQ7. What are the main keywords of the studies, and how are they related? | Keywords, keyword network, and trends |
Inclusion Criteria | Exclusion Criteria |
---|---|
Publications containing any of the following words in the title, abstract, or keywords: Social Entrepreneurship, Complex Thinking, Scientific Thinking, Critical Thinking, Innovative Thinking, Systemic Thinking. | Publications without the following keywords in their title, abstract, or keywords: Social Entrepreneurship, Complex Thinking, Scientific Thinking, Critical Thinking, Innovative Thinking, Systemic Thinking. |
Publications indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. | Publications that are not indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases. |
Competency | Entrepreneurship Type | Scopus | Web of Science (WoS) |
---|---|---|---|
-Scientific thinking -Critical thinking -Creative thinking -Innovative thinking -Systemic thinking -Complex thinking | -Entrepreneurship -Social Entrepreneurship | (TITLE-ABS-KEY (“Competency”) AND TITLE-ABS-KEY (“Type of Entrepreneurship”)) | (“Competency”) AND (“Type of Entrepreneurship”) |
String | Entrepreneurship Type | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
“Competency” and “Type of Venture” | Entrepreneurship | Social Entrepreneurship | ||
Competency | Scopus | WoS | Scopus | Wos |
Scientific Thinking | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Creative Thinking | 106 | 93 | 3 | 1 |
Critical Thinking | 155 | 136 | 13 | 12 |
Innovative Thinking | 71 | 71 | 3 | 1 |
Systemic Thinking | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Complex Thinking | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Total | 345 | 307 | 19 | 14 |
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Vázquez-Parra, J.C.; Cruz-Sandoval, M.; Carlos-Arroyo, M. Social Entrepreneurship and Complex Thinking: A Bibliometric Study. Sustainability 2022, 14, 13187. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013187
Vázquez-Parra JC, Cruz-Sandoval M, Carlos-Arroyo M. Social Entrepreneurship and Complex Thinking: A Bibliometric Study. Sustainability. 2022; 14(20):13187. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013187
Chicago/Turabian StyleVázquez-Parra, José Carlos, Marco Cruz-Sandoval, and Martina Carlos-Arroyo. 2022. "Social Entrepreneurship and Complex Thinking: A Bibliometric Study" Sustainability 14, no. 20: 13187. https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013187