Entrepreneurship must be linked to the need to innovate, collaborating with partners, improving products, processes, introducing models, always seeking the improvement of productivity and the achievement of competitive advantages.
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A Bibliometric Study on Socially Responsible Entrepreneurs
Dolores Gallardo-Vázquez (University of Extremadura, Spain),
Teresa Costa (Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal), and Luis Enrique Valdez-Juárez (Technological Institute of Sonora, Mexico)
Copyright: © 2020
|Pages: 26
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-2704-7.ch002
Abstract
Entrepreneurship is a necessary strategy that entails the emergence of a business idea and the creation of a company, constituting a true entrepreneurial capital. At present, the European Commission (EC) urges entrepreneurship given the potential for sustainable and inclusive growth. Also, the EC, since 2001, pronounced itself the need for a voluntary integration of social, economic, and environmental concerns in business strategies. The objective of this chapter is to achieve a confluence of ideas that link the initiative of an entrepreneur with the need to carry out a socially responsible strategy today in business. A bibliometric study was undertaken by means of a structured and systematized search of the Web of Science, Scopus, Elsevier, and Google Scholar during the 2005-2017 period, limiting the search to articles published in journals. Fifty-two works were located, which were published in 35 journals. The study has identified a set of entrepreneurship initiatives partially connected with social responsibility, which allows us to qualify him as a “socially responsible entrepreneur.”