SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH IN THE MIDDLE EAST (SYSTEMATIC REVIEW)
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH IN THE MIDDLE EAST (SYSTEMATIC REVIEW)

Summary/Abstract: In the last few years, concert international efforts have been made to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs-2030), and societal well-being. Social Entrepreneurship (SE) is a new and creative approach to address diverse social challenges. Undoubtedly, SE is a flexible and dynamic framework capable of establishing the basic approach for responding to many urgent societies’challenges such as poverty, unemployment, and environmental issues (climate change, agricultural familiar, pollution). In this context, the main aim of this research was to give an overview of the development in research related to SE in the Middle East countries, based on Google Scholar database between 2010 and 2020. Results showed that, total research has reached 80 items, where the year 2015 has the highest number of research items (25), followed by 2017 (14), then 2016, 2017, 2018 with eight research items for each one. In terms of countries, research about SE in all Middle East as a whole represented 51% of the total number of researches: Egypt (12%), UAE (6%), Lebanon (6%), and Saudi Arabia (6%). The output of this research emphasizes that, the blooming emergence of SE in the Middle East happened mainly after the so called “Arab Spring”, although it originally goes back to the 2000s. Furthermore, the Middle East region has a great potential for emerging SE with a remarkable appearance of women entrepreneurship.

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