Please find below few well cited authors on the topic:

Short, Moss, Lumpkin (2009) Research in social entrepreneurship: Past contributions and future opportunities, SEJ

Zahra, et al. (2009) A typology of social entrepreneurs: Motives, search processes and ethical challenges, JBV

Mort, Weerawardena ( 2007) Social entrepreneurship, Routledge

Mair, Marti (2006) Social entrepreneurship research: A source of explanation, prediction, and delight, JWB

Chell (2007) Social enterprise and entrepreneurship towards a convergent theory of the entrepreneurial process, ISBJ

Please find below few well cited authors on the topic:

Short, Moss, Lumpkin (2009) Research in social entrepreneurship: Past contributions and future opportunities, SEJ

Zahra, et al. (2009) A typology of social entrepreneurs: Motives, search processes and ethical challenges, JBV

Mort, Weerawardena ( 2007) Social entrepreneurship, Routledge

Mair, Marti (2006) Social entrepreneurship research: A source of explanation, prediction, and delight, JWB

Chell (2007) Social enterprise and entrepreneurship towards a convergent theory of the entrepreneurial process, ISBJ

Hi Tamara,

Both Nicolay and Frederic have given you a good starting point. Agree with Frederic that you will need to provide or better define the issue you are going to expand on. There are various views on Social Entrepreneurship, there are also a number regarding sustainability e.g. financial, organizational, rural or environmental.

I would look up Erik G. Hansen, Chux Inu and Heather Douglas on this site and take a look at their work in this area. Externally, Moizer and Tracey 2010 work could be of help as well, Saunah  Zainon et al 2014, who look at sustainability from a Malaysian perspective.

All  the Best

Rob

I sincerely believe that this represents a new and important direction

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Hi Tamara,

I would sincerely recommed you the books given below,

Bornstein, David. How to change the world: Social entrepreneurs and the power of new ideas. Oxford University Press, 2007.

Bornstein, David, and Susan Davis. Social entrepreneurship: What everyone needs to know. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Praszkier, Ryszard, and Andrzej Nowak. Social entrepreneurship: Theory and practice. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Yunus, Muhammad, and Karl Weber. Building social business: The new kind of capitalism that serves humanity's most pressing needs. PublicAffairs, 2011.

Hi Tamara,

I agree with Frederic that you will need to provide a better definition of  the issue you are going to work on. There are many definitions of social entrepreneurship. Also plenty of articles are available on the subject. Kindly go through the data bases like EBSCO, Proquest, T Stor etc.

Social Entrepreneurship, there are also a number regarding sustainability e.g. financial, organizational, rural or environmental.

Hi Tamara,

I agree that all the aforementioned authors are highly relevant. Perhaps the following article would be helpful as well:

Rey-Martí, A., et al., A bibliometric analysis of social entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Research (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2015.10.033 

Thank you Olivera, Arun, Oguzhan, James, Robert, Frederick, and Nikolay for you very helpful responses and resources.  Some I knew of (Borenstein, Yanus) but others were very new.  Thank you too for asking me to go deeper into my definition and conceptualization of SE.  This is great!  The book is due out iAug. and I will be working on it in earnest the end of the semester (May).  Thanks again!

Dear Tamara,

Hi

I have studied this issue and you can read my findings in the study attached. 

Hope you find it useful.

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Dear Tamara,

I would love to get the details of the book so that I could go through when published.

 Thanks for the great help and support - almost done with the final draft!