Female Social Entrepreneurship

1 Introduction
2 General Literature Overview on Social Entrepreneurship
2.1 Entrepreneurship
2.1.1 Origin and Definition of Entrepreneurship
2.1.2 The Entrepreneur
2.1.3 Context and Entrepreneurship
2.2 Social Entrepreneurship
2.2.1 Origin and Definition of Social Entrepreneurship
2.2.2 Social and Social Value
2.2.3 Forms of Social Entrepreneurship
2.2.4 Context in Social Entrepreneurship
2.2.5 Contributions of Social Entrepreneurship
2.2.6 Challenges of Social Entrepreneurship
3 Female Social Entrepreneurship
3.1 Gender
3.2 Short History of Female Social Entrepreneurship
3.3 Feminist Theories in Entrepreneurial Research
3.4 The current State of Research
3.4.1 Recent Research on Female Social Entrepreneurship
3.4.2 Female Social Entrepreneurship in Numbers
3.5 Potential of Female Social Entrepreneurship
3.6 Challenges for Female Social Entrepreneurship
3.6.1 Challenges faced by the field of Female Social Entrepreneurship
3.6.2 Research Challenges for Female Social Entrepreneurship
3.7 Proposals for Future Research
3.7.1 Proposed Research Methods and Approaches
3.7.2 Proposed Research Questions and Focus
4 Epistemology and Methodology
4.1 Theoretical Perspective
4.2 Purpose and Justification
4.3 Research Questions
4.4 Research Design
4.5 Study Population, Sample and Selection Procedures
4.6 Data Collection and Processing
4.7 Quality Assurance
4.8 Study Limitations
5 Results and Discussion
5.1 Personal Path towards Social Entrepreneurship
5.1.1 Education and Working Experience
5.1.2 Caring Responsibilities
5.1.3 Personal Motivation
5.1.4 Self-Actualization
5.2 Social Enterprises
5.2.1 Social Purpose, Contribution and Impact
5.2.2 Conceptualization of Social Entrepreneurship
5.2.3 Success
5.2.4 Management Practices
5.2.5 Innovation
5.2.6 Working Routines
5.2.7 Employees, Financing and Resources
5.2.8 Future Goals
5.3 Doing Gender in Social Entrepreneurship
5.3.1 Discourses on Gender
5.3.2 The Social Entrepreneurship

Miriam Gerlach, M.A. is a research Associate at the Chair of Economics of Sustainability, University of Vechta, Germany.