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The determinants of social sustainability in work integration social enterprises: the effect of entrepreneurship
2021
Work integration social enterprises (WISEs) exist to fight poverty and social exclusion. They offer support and guidance to those at risk of exclusion to help these individuals join the labour market. This study examines the relationship between social enterprises (specifically, work integration social enterprises) and their social impact, considered here in the form of social sustainability. This article presents the results of empirical analysis of 62 Spanish work integration social enterprises using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. The article focuses on the entrepreneurial characteristics of the companies’ founders and managers as drivers of social value creation. Specificall…
Resilient Organizations in the Third Sector. Professionalized Membership Associations, Social Enterprises, Modern Hybrids
2018
How do nonprofit organizations manage to survive? How are they able to adapt to changed environments without losing their distinctiveness? Fifteen case studies of nonprofit organizations operating across Europe tell us a story of how to make ends meet. The cases presented, identified and analyzed in the framework of the European Union-funded research project Third Sector Impact (TSI) (Enjolras et al. 2018)1 , are organizations that are confronted with an increasingly hostile environment in terms of the availability of resources and co-operation with government. Some of them, particularly those in Southern Europe and in the U.K., suffer from austerity politics and financial cutbacks; some ar…
Dialogue in the Dark: Shedding Light on the Development of Social Enterprises in China
2015
International audience; The application of for-profit business practices to nonprofit organizations, social enterprises are a way for nonprofit organizations to find funding in a time of rising costs, falling donations, and increased competition from for-profit businesses in the social sector. Although well established in the mature economies of the West, these enterprises are a novelty in the emerging economies of Asia and in the transitional economies of the former communist world. The experiences of Dialogue in the Dark, a social enterprise concerned with the problems associated with blindness, highlight the unique challenges that social enterprises face in China and offer lessons for en…
Sociālā uzņēmējdarbība: Starptautiskās pieredzes ieviešana
2021
Latvijā pastāv ienākumu nevienlīdzības problēma. Sociālās uzņēmējdarbības attīstība ir viens no soļiem šī jautājuma novēršanai. Tomēr nozare joprojām nav pietiekami attīstīta, un ir vajadzīga nobriedusi sociālās uzņēmējdarbības ekosistēma, lai radītu vairāk darbavietu un līdz minimumam samazinātu cilvēku grupas, kurām draud sociālā atstumtība. Šī darba mērķis ir izveidot labi funkcionējošas sociālās uzņēmējdarbības ekosistēmas teorētisko modeli Latvijā, balstoties uz Eiropas valstu pieredzi un vietējo sociālo uzņēmumu pētījumiem. Tiek analizēta Eiropas sociālās uzņēmējdarbības ekosistēmu prakse, ko var ieviest Latvijā, kā arī izaicinājumi, ar kuriem šodien saskaras sociālie uzņēmumi. Autore…
Sociālā uzņēmējdarbība; potenciāli un izaicinājumi
2018
Jaunā nozare - sociālā uzņēmējdarbība – saņem aizvien vairāk uzmanības un popularitātes gadu laikā, un tomēr pastāv liela plaisa starp tās popularitāti un empīriskajiem pētījumiem, kuri rakstīti, lai izpētītu izaicinājumus, ar kuriem saskaras sociālie uzņēmēji. Lielākā daļa pētījumu ir veikti fokusējoties uz bezpeļņas organizācijām, turpretī organizācijas, kuras darbojas ar peļņu, ir saņēmušas daudzreiz mazāk uzmanības. Sociālā uzņēmējdarbība ir sarežģīts, daudzveidīgs fenomens, kurš ietver dažādus organizatoriskos veidus un aktivitātes, neskatoties uz to sociālās uzņēmējdarbības popularitāte tiek pārspēkota ar dažādajiem pieņēmumiem, ņemot vērā, ka dažādām sabiedrības grupām sociālā uzņēmē…
Accreditation and validation of professional qualifications: Monitoring of the process by insertion companies.
2019
People at risk for exclusion and vulnerable populations have serious difficulties in accessing the ordinary labour market. Their work insertion is more complicated than that of people with high employability capacities. People's social exclusion risk could be reduced if, among other measures, their access would be facilitated to the accreditation and validation of their professional competences. This work shows how Work Integration Social Enterprises support people at risk for exclusion in obtaining the accreditation and validation of their professional qualifications. We critically describe and analyse the process, concluding that the initiative breaks with the perception of accreditat…
Effectiveness and Efficiency of Social Economy Organizations
2016
The social economy is a sector that contributes significantly to job creation, sustainable development and income generation as well as equitable distribution of wealth. It is a sector capable of combining profitability with social inclusion within the system of democratic governance, work in the public and private sectors as adjustment of service provision to social needs. Within the social economy there are many different organizations that are usually referred to as social enterprises. SE as a specific mechanism for delivery of goods and services within the existing socio-economic system may not disregard the effectiveness and efficiency. The relationships between effectiveness and effic…