Abstract:
Opportunity recognition (OR) is at the very heart of entrepreneurship.
However, research on OR in the context of social entrepreneurship is
still in its early stages. First, this article identifies, codifies and analyses
OR-relevant articles on social entrepreneurship (SE) through the lens
of Sarasvathy’s three views of entrepreneurial opportunity recognition.
In the second step, statistical methods are applied on the results to
indicate possible correlations among different schools of thought in SE
and views on OR. OR in social ventures is found to be a prevalent topic
in SE literature and differences in OR between social and commercial
ventures are found.
