Bibliographic methods offer an advanced microscope-like tool to probe specific fields of inquiry. In this article, we use these methodological tools to demonstrate how a seminal article diffused and influenced the intellectual structure of the public administration (PA) field. We do this by...

This study extends our understanding of the ways in which social entrepreneurs give sense to and legitimize their work by introducing a rhetoric-orientation view (ROV) of social entrepreneurship (SE). It uses computer-aided text analysis and computational linguistics to study 191 interviews of...

How do social entrepreneurs employ language to bring about a change in the structure of society and institutions? Drawing on discourse as the main epistemology in institutional theory, this research applies corpus linguistics (CL) –– a relatively new approach in studying discourse –– to...

Purpose — Qualitative research suffers from “contestation” and a lack of “boilerplate” problems to assessing and presenting qualitative data, which has hampered its development and the broader acceptance of qualitative research. This article addresses this gap by marrying the...

This article views social entrepreneurship as a relatively new model for achieving sustainable development. It also identifies development narratives that social entrepreneurs (SEs) construct to represent and promote their work as an important research gap in development studies. Drawing on the...

Building on the ‘entrepreneuring as emancipation' perspective, I explore the emancipatory potential of social entrepreneurship as a means to disengage individuals enthralled to ideology and trapped by their own past behavior. I studied two former religious-based terrorists from Indonesia, and...

Drawing upon the science of complexity we propose a network-centric, complex-systems internationalization (NCCSI) perspective of firm internationalization that can help us understand observed patterns of internationalization that are difficult to explain using traditional theories. While...

Running a social enterprise (SE) is more difficult than running a small or medium-sized enterprise because SEs have to achieve both economic sustainability as business enterprises and their social mission for the benefit of society. After a few years of operation, many SEs fail or struggle for...