This article maps existing research from 5,874 scholarly publications on social entrepreneurship (SE) utilizing scientometrics. The mapping indicates a taxonomy of five clusters: (a) the nature of SE, (b) policy implications and employment in relation to SE, (c) SE in communities and health, (d) SE personality traits, and (e) SE education. We complement the scientometric analysis with a systematic literature review of publications on SE in the Financial Times 50 list (FT50) and Business & Society and propose a multistage, multilevel framework that highlights the clusters of existing research on SE based on their stage and level of analysis. This review study also helps outline a set of future research directions, including studies examining (a) the process stage at the micro-level and macro-level, (b) linkages across levels and stages, (c) linkages across stages over time or longitudinal studies, (d) SE in resource-constrained environments, (e) technological advancement and its impact on SE, (f) the types of social enterprises and their outcomes, and (g) various emerging topics in SE.

本文从 5,874 份利用科学计量学的社会创业 (SE) 学术出版物中绘制了现有研究。该映射显示了五个集群的分类：（a）SE的性质，（b）与SE相关的政策影响和就业，（c）社区和健康方面的SE，（d）SE人格特征，以及（e）SE教育。我们通过对金融时报 50 强名单 (FT50) 和商业与社会中 SE 出版物的系统文献回顾来补充科学计量分析并提出一个多阶段、多层次的框架，根据分析的阶段和水平突出现有的 SE 研究集群。本综述研究还有助于勾勒出一组未来的研究方向，包括研究 (a) 微观和宏观层面的过程阶段，(b) 跨层次和跨阶段的联系，(c) 跨阶段的联系，或纵向研究，（d）资源受限环境中的社会企业，（e）技术进步及其对社会企业的影响，（f）社会企业的类型及其成果，以及（g）社会企业中的各种新兴主题。