Sustainability 2023, 15, 31. https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010031 www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability Article Sustainable Entrepreneurship as a Field of Knowledge: Analyzing the Global South Francoise Contreras 1, * and Utz Dornberger 2 1 School of Management and Business, Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá 111221, Colombia 2 International SEPT Programme, Leipzig University, 04109 Leipzig, Germany * Correspondence: francoise.contreras@urosario.edu.co Abstract: The objective of this study is to characterize the contribution to sustainable entrepre‐ neurship as a field of knowledge from developing countries, also called the Global South, through the analysis of the literature that has been produced in the last two decades. This research starts from the premise of the dominance of the Global North over academic production on this topic and analyzes the consequences for the Global South. Through VOSViewer software, and Biblioshiny, a web interface of bibliometrix R‐package, 1964 articles that were retrieved from the WoS database were analyzed. According to the results, the dominance of the Global North is confirmed, not only by the number of articles (63% vs. 22% of the Global South), but also by the impact on the publica‐ tions, the publishing systems, and the thematic addressed, among other indicators. Likewise, the low North–South collaboration (15%), and the scarce collaboration networks between Southern countries, were also confirmed. This situation may have affected the formation of a critical mass of Southern researchers to develop their own concepts and address subjects related to sustainable entrepreneurship that are more adjusted to their reality. We did not find significant differences between the Southern and the Northern research themes or the emergence of new concepts from the Global South, despite their different conditions. Finally, a closer look at the thematic trajectory in terms of scholarly production shows a lesser emphasis on sustainability in the Global South than that in the Global North. These findings are discussed herein. Keywords: sustainable entrepreneurship; sustainability; Global South and Global North; Southern countries; bibliometric‐mapping research; scholar production 1. Introduction There is a broad consensus on the potential role of entrepreneurship in creating wealth, encouraging economic growth, and in diminishing unemployment and poverty [1], especially in developing countries [2]. On the other hand, the concept of sustainable development has emerged as one of the most prominent subjects of our time [3], making sustainable entrepreneurship a notion that has acquired growing relevance over the last decades. The notion of sustainable entrepreneurship points out that entrepreneurship should not be based solely on generating wealth, instead it should be “focused on the preservation of nature, life support, and community in the pursuit of perceived oppor‐ tunities to bring into existence future products, processes, and services for gain, where the gain is broadly construed to include economic and non‐economic gains to individu‐ als, the economy, and society” [3]. Although entrepreneurship could be seen as a source of welfare and a solution for numerous problems in developing countries, which are also called Global South coun‐ tries [4], the knowledge about sustainable entrepreneurship in the region is quite limited. The knowledge that is produced in developed countries, or Global North countries, cannot always be extrapolated since entrepreneurship needs to be considered differen‐ Citation: Contreras, F.; Dornberger, U. Sustainable Entrepreneurship as a Field of Knowledge: Analyzing the Global South. Sustainability 2023, 15, 31. https://doi.org/10.3390/ su15010031 Academic Editor: Fernando Almeida Received: 18 October 2022 Revised: 5 December 2022 Accepted: 12 December 2022 Published: 20 December 2022 Copyright: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/).