Abstract:
Social entrepreneurship is an emerging phenomenon that provides innovative solutions to
persisting social problems such as poverty, lack of access to education, clean drinking water
and human rights which were previously overlooked by businesses, governments and non-
governmental organizations. The concept of social entrepreneurship has not been defined
properly, and hence, is a contested concept. Further, given that it consists of many sub-
concepts, it is defined as a cluster concept. Social enterprises engage in social entrepreneurship
and they try to achieve sustainability by using business models. Being a new discipline, social
entrepreneurship presents many opportunities in research. This paper discusses the important
concepts in social entrepreneurship and potential research areas for prospective researchers.
