Social enterprise and social entrepreneurship in the Public Administration (PA) scholar field: a bibliometric analysis and some conceptual considerations

Guest editorial: Social enterprises and public organizations: allies of adversaries? Introduction to special issue

“…This special issue deals with social enterprises (SEs), a type of organization that, until recently, has not received much attention from public administration and public management scholars (Calo et al , 2024). We will mainly focus on the relationship between these “organizations combining aspects of business and charity” (Battilana and Lee, 2014, p. 406) and public organizations, especially governments.…”