Systematic Literature Review on Social Capital, Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Social Entrepreneurial Intention: A Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

In recent years, social entrepreneurship has received an increasing attention from the scholarly academics. Social entrepreneurship is an emerging topic related to diverse fields of economics, business management, sociology, psychology and are always debated with many descriptions, methods, and approaches. This study employs the Science mapping analysis which provides in-depth analyses. The analysis highlights intellectual structure and identifies hot topics. It has also examined co-citation networks of contributing countries, institutions, cited journals, and authors, by using Vosviewer software. Further, researcher used a mechanism established in the literature, the PRISMA method to limit the risk of bias during the article selection phase. Three databases were used by the researcher to find relevant articles: Scopus, Web of Science, and Business Source. The findings show that the publications of social capital and social entrepreneurial intention related topics have evolved exponentially. The major driving force of related topic research is from the USA, European Union and Asian regions. The landscape view identifies main clusters from an overall perspective, while a timeline view delineates the characteristics and evolution of focal clusters. The results include three clusters: Cluster one – “Social entrepreneurship and social efficacy”; Cluster two – “Social capital and Entrepreneurship” and Cluster three – “social capital, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and social entrepreneurial intention”. By studying the citation profile of documents on the social capital, entrepreneurial self-efficacy, this study has contributed to a better understanding of literature on social entrepreneurial intention. However, there were limited investigations done on practice and theatrical background to prove that there is a significant relationship between social capital, entrepreneurial self-efficacy and social entrepreneurial intention.