Originality/value – There is limited research on the poverty reducing role of social enterprise for women and the proposed mechanisms and integrative framework presented provide a means of synthesizin

The gap

Consensus across the literature

Supporting evidence — 4 representative gaps

• Women in Nigeria: Examining the Motivations for Engaging in Social Entrepreneurship (2022) · doi

  This phenomenon raised some key questions for this paper: Do women only perform better when it comes to designing enterprises for social good? Or do the narratives show that they could lead in other forms of entrepreneurship but are not because of existing constraints? Simply put, what is the drive or motivation for engaging in social entrepreneurship? Interestingly, such a study is lacking within the African context.

  Keywords: social entrepreneurship phenomenon raised questions women perform better comes designing enterprises good narratives show lead
• Environmental and Individual Determinants of Female Entrepreneurship in Algeria: Applying the Structural Equation Modeling (2014) · doi

  Although female entrepreneurship is attracting more and more researchers, it is still considered as an understudied field of research Contribution & Value Added: Research on female entrepreneurship has intensified since the early 80s, but few have explored the influence of environmental and individual factors related to female entrepreneurship.

  Keywords: female entrepreneurship attracting researchers still considered understudied field contribution value added intensified early explored influence
• Social enterprise as poverty reducing strategy for women (2014) · doi

  Originality/value – There is limited research on the poverty reducing role of social enterprise for women and the proposed mechanisms and integrative framework presented provide a means of synthesizing our current knowledge while providing the basis for future investigations.

  Keywords: originality value there limited poverty reducing role social enterprise women proposed mechanisms integrative framework presented
• Networks and the idea-fruition process of female social entrepreneurs in South Africa (2018) · doi

  Research limitations/implications While the results enable the generation of a structure based on the authors’ first insights into how social relational networks influence female social entrepreneurship, it remains unclear if these results can be specifically traced to women or social entrepreneurial aspects, which suggests that further attention is needed in future studies.

  Keywords: social limitations implications enable generation structure based authors first insights relational networks influence female entrepreneurship