Understanding Legitimacy and Social Entrepreneurship - A Structured Literature Review
Debaro Huyler,
Craig M. McGill,
Tonette S. Rocco
Abstract:This structured literature review explores the alignment and potential synergies between human resource development (HRD) and social entrepreneurship within the United States. The study’s guiding questions investigated how social entrepreneurship is characterized in scholarly articles and where HRD research and practice intersect with social entrepreneurship. Based on literature from 2006 to 2021, this study found that social entrepreneurship lacks cognitive legitimacy and is framed as (a) pragmatically legiti… Show more
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