State of the art of social entrepreneurship

Abstract

Social Entrepreneurship (SE) has different connotations from different authors, resulting attractive to many, since within its lines it encloses multiple dimensions according to the context in which it is developed, both geographically and culturally, without leaving aside the social, therefore, it is preponderant to generate a literary review through the social and / or environmental objectives over the economic ones, The term ES is understood as any business initiative, for profit or non-profit, whose objective is the generation of social value, is an attractive topic of new creation that has quickly captured the interest of many researchers to address it from different perspectives, which is why the objective of this study is to generate a documentary analysis through the State of the art, through a two-phase methodology: Heuristic and hermeneutic, based practically on discovering, investigating, collecting and consulting the documents to be analyzed using the Scopus database. The hermeneutic phase allows to generate procedures without rigorousness, relying on documents, research works, articles, which were previously consulted, filtering these findings, to retake only the documents that serve as a source of information.