EMPREENDEDORISMO SUSTENTÁVEL E O TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE: MAPEANDO A LITERATURA INTERNACIONAL

Sustainable entrepreneurship recently emerged as a theme in entrepreneurship studies. Thus, in the present paper the goal is to map the international production about sustainable entrepreneurship by means of the triple bottom line lens, aiming to identify its main subjects and results in order to offer a general overview about how the theme has been approached in the international literature. Bibliometrics was adopted as a research strategy, with social network analysis, descriptive statistics and thematic content analysis. The results showed that the field presents recurrent themes, such as theoretical advances and conceptual propositions; education to sustainable entrepreneurship; resources and opportunities; sustainable management aspects; green entrepreneurship; and entrepreneurial practice and orientation. It was verified the lack of conceptual rigor of the sustainable entrepreneurship, once it is adopted even when not referring to its three dimensions: social, environmental and economic dimensions.