This paper aims to present a contribution to the fields of knowledge management and social business. As the extant literature about knowledge management reveals the role of knowledge in the process of new venture creation, the authors argue that such literature can answer concerns and calls for further research on examining social entrepreneurship. This paper proposes several key insights for this purpose and argues that one key contribution of the literature on knowledge management to the field of social entrepreneurship is that it explains the poor growth of new social ventures. The authors also conclude the paper by explaining how the specificities of knowledge management among social businesses could create a new research agenda in the field of knowledge management.,Following the systematic literature review approach, this conceptual paper proposes a reflection that is based on the connection of two kinds of literature reviews as follows: a review on knowledge management applied to the context of new venture creation and a review on social entrepreneurship and its vision of knowledge.,The authors reveal that one key explanation of poor growth in new social ventures is not necessarily associated with a lack of resources, but rather an inefficient knowledge management process.,The first original point of the paper is that it links two sets of literature reviews that have hardly ever been addressed together, namely knowledge management literature and social entrepreneurship literature. Moreover, the paper reveals how knowledge management based on a “bricolage” approach could foster the growth of new social ventures.

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知识管理是否可以解释社会企业的不良增长？来自关于知识管理和社会企业家精神的系统文献综述的主要见解

本文旨在为知识管理和社会商务领域做出贡献。由于有关知识管理的现有文献揭示了知识在新企业创建过程中的作用，因此作者认为这些文献可以回答人们的关注，并要求对研究社会企业家精神进行进一步研究。本文为此目的提出了一些关键的见解，并认为知识管理文献对社会企业家精神领域的重要贡献是它解释了新的社会企业的不良增长。作者还通过解释社会企业之间知识管理的特殊性如何在知识管理领域创建新的研究议程来结束本文。该概念文件提出了一种基于以下两种文献综述的反思：一种是将知识管理的综述应用于新创企业的环境；另一种是关于社会企业家精神及其对知识的看法。新社会事业增长缓慢的一个关键解释不一定与资源匮乏有关，而是知识管理过程效率低下。论文的第一点是将两套文献综述相互联系起来一起讨论，即知识管理文献和社会企业家文献。此外，本文揭示了基于“狂妄”方法的知识管理如何促进新的社会事业的发展。