What does it take to be a societal change maker: a comprehensive review of social entrepreneurship competencies by Anne-Karen Hüske (Copenhagen Business School)

The growing interest in social entrepreneurship has led to a nascent research interest into competencies driven by the question whether and if yes, how to teach them. This is the first systematical review on competencies needed for social entrepreneurship. From the coding emerged 12 competency construct groups along the dimensions: impact competencies, entrepreneurship competencies, and engagement competencies. Most of them are researched by less than half of our studies. This shows the fragmentation of this research and calls for more comprehensive research, especially to assess those competencies. Reviewing the referenced literature, reveals that social entrepreneurship research goes beyond a mere addition of the entrepreneurship research and societal impact research. The studies tend to draw from multiple disciplines to explain similar competency constructs. Our coding of relationships among the competencies specifies independent, mediator and dependent variables among the competencies and calls for more comprehensive research on relationship. This Social Entrepreneurship Competencies Model is complemented by antecedents and outcomes coded from the studies and results in a model that points to several fruitful avenues for future empirical research. 

Keywords: Competency; social entrepreneur; sustainable entrepreneur; societal changemaker