Social enterprise (SE) studies are gaining ground as an emerging research domain owing to the duality characterizing their business models for tapping the triple bottom line (TBL) principle, which is a framework measuring the three pillars of sustainability: people, planet, and profit. This rising attention to SE has led to scattering in the research structure and knowledge spillover. Although publications have attempted to regroup this domain, extant analyses lack scientific coverage. By reforming previously adopted research approaches and redesigning metadata retrieval constraints, this study revisits, dissects, and synthesizes relevant SE-related studies to identify the current dominance, recent developments, and future directions of SE studies. Through a bibliometric review that combines descriptive, network, and content analyses, our findings reveal ten avenues worth pursuing, categorized under the research scope, research trajectory, and analytical dimensions. Finally, this study presents practical implications that support the institutionalization of SEs that holistically meet the TBL principle.

社会企业（SE）研究作为一个新兴研究领域正在取得进展，因为其商业模式具有二元性，可利用三重底线（TBL）原则，这是一个衡量可持续发展三大支柱的框架：人、地球和利润。对SE的日益关注导致研究结构和知识溢出的分散。尽管出版物试图重新组合这一领域，但现有的分析缺乏科学覆盖。通过改革以前采用的研究方法和重新设计元数据检索约束，本研究重新审视、剖析和综合相关的SE相关研究，以确定SE研究的当前主导地位、最新发展和未来方向。通过结合描述性、网络和内容分析的文献计量审查，我们的研究结果揭示了十个值得追求的途径，按照研究范围、研究轨迹和分析维度进行分类。最后，本研究提出了支持社会企业制度化、全面符合 TBL 原则的实际意义。