62 Int. J. Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2022 Copyright © 2022 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Sustainable development of social entrepreneurship: evidence from Vietnam Dinh Ba Hung Anh Department of Industrial System Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, 268 Ly ThuongKietStr, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Email: anhdbh@gmail.com Le Doan Minh Duc School of Accounting, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, 59C Nguyen Dinh Chieu Street, District 3, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Email: ducldm@ueh.edu.vn Nguyen Thi Hoang Yen Thu Dau Mot University, 06 Tran Van On Str., Thu Dau Mot City, Binh Duong, Vietnam Email: nthyen2011@gmail.com Nguyen Thanh Hung Binh Duong University, 504 Binh Duong Ave, Thu Dau Mot City, Binh Duong, Vietnam Email: thanhhung3575@gmail.com Nguyen Hoang Tien* Ho Chi Minh City University of Food Industry, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Email: tiennh@hufi.edu.vn *Corresponding author Abstract: This article delivers a full insight into interrelated concepts of social enterprise, social entrepreneurship and their sustainability issues. Despite the different nature, determinant factors, motivation and purpose, as well as orientation towards sustainable development of commercial and social enterprises (commercial and social entrepreneurship) the results of analysis show that both form of entrepreneurship could stay together to successfully bridge social capital leading to the development of both forms of entrepreneurial activities. Using extensive conceptual analysis as an adopted methodology for the study, together with carried out original research in Vietnam on entrepreneurship in the largest megacities and in the far-off local areas (countryside), the article revealed a predominant kind of entrepreneurship