Corporate Social Responsibility Dimensions and Sustainable Entrepreneurship

The topics of entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and socially committed entrepreneurial strategies are commonly applied in different contexts, however, most of the times there's a lack of consonance and coherence as far as these matters are concerned. According to this statement, this paper aims to provide novel insights focusing on the meaning of the concept 'Social Entrepreneurship' and its connection with CSR. The main intention behind this research is to study the corporate social responsibility dimensions and understand how the researchers in this area have approached this topic on their studies. Furthermore, it also examines evidence regarding the presence of responsible entrepreneurship within the scope of the papers scrutinized. The research used the literature review methodology. The results show that corporate social responsibility literature has been addressing corporate governance, social, and environmental issues. Academics have been paying less attention to the economic dimension. Nevertheless, in the last few years, public attention has been centred on public finances and wealth issues. The economic crisis highlighted aggressive tax practices as irresponsible and illegitimate procedures, thus being inconsistent with CSR. It was possible to observe that research on the topic of sustainable entrepreneurship has been scarce, and it can also be stated that, to our knowledge, little attention has been paid to responsible innovation. However, there are some studies that are able to confirm that this matter was previously approached in the first decade of this century.