Implicaciones de la investigación sobre el emprendimiento social en tiempos de la COVID-19: un enfoque desde la gestión negocios.

Purpose. Discuss, theoretically and practically, the state of the art of social entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 pandemic and its implications for sustainable business management, identifying related studies and proposing new research approaches. Methodology. Through the systematic review of literature and bibliometric techniques, the academic productivity of the discipline is analyzed during the years 2020 to 2022. Findings. New lines of research focused on the sustainable administration of social entrepreneurship are proposed, considering the redefinition of the role of the social entrepreneur, the role of social and governmental organizations, the influence of social entrepreneurship ecosystems, as well as the generation of methodologies for identification of new participants in the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship. Originality. Academic productivity during the recent pandemic is analyzed, leading to new questions to be resolved, with theoretical and practical implications to update the understanding and sustainable management of social entrepreneurship. Conclusions and limitations. The research derives from the analysis of theoretical criteria, which makes it necessary to analyze and validate the lines suggested empirically. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]