Research article Social entrepreneurship and Economy for the Common Good: Study of their relationship through a bibliometric analysis Vanessa Campos University of Vale `ncia, Spain Joan-Ramon Sanchis University of Vale `ncia, Spain Ana Ejarque University of Vale `ncia, Spain Abstract Being social entrepreneurship (SE) the closest to Economy for the Common Good (ECG) principles, our work proposes to analyze the contribution of ECG model to SE. It is also intended to establish the relationship that exists between both concepts. Therefore, our specific objectives are to (1) identify the specific contributions of ECG principles to SE as well as their overlaps, (2) perform a literature review to analyze and quantify the number of research papers on SE and ECG, and (3) identify the possible existing gap. Through a double methodology, we (1) determine the potential contributions of the ECG model to SE, we propose to analyze the Common Good (CG) matrix and (2) empirical analysis on the existing literature body on SE and ECG. SE and ECG model share a number of principles and features which may be translated into some important overlaps in relation to both research bodies. So CG matrix can help to successfully launch and manage social ventures. This fact is mainly due to the fact that there is not a sufficiently large body of literature that relates models. In future research, it would be interesting to extend the bibliographic search to other databases. Keywords Common Good matrix, corporate sustainability, Economy for the Common Good model, entrepreneurial education, social entrepreneurship Introduction Entrepreneurship is a powerful tool to create wealth for societies by promoting economic and social development (Corner and Ho, 2010; Wynn and Jones, 2019). However, wealth cannot be understood as merely economic value creation. On contrary, currently there is an increasing interest for social and environmental value creation as well as their balance in the entrepreneurial context. Promoting the equitable distribution of wealth is one of the goals of social entrepreneurship (SE). This way, SE contributes to the common good (CG). On the other hand, Felber (2015) proposes the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) model whose main purpose is to achieve a full respect for human rights principles within companies worldwide and, thus, a more human run of firms based on cooperation and the prosecution of gen- eral interest. Hence, shedding light on the need to balance economic, social, and environmental outcomes. In this sense, through the present work, the authors show that the entrepreneurial approach that better fits ECG model is SE, as SE has as primarily goal the creation of Corresponding author: Joan-Ramon Sanchis, Faculty of Economics, University of Vale ` ncia, Av. dels Tarongers, S/N, 46022 Valencia, Spain. Email: joan.r.sanchis@uv.es The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation 1–12 ª The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/1465750319879632 journals.sagepub.com/home/iei