WIĘZIOTWÓRCZE FUNKCJE PRZEDSIĘBIORSTW SPOŁECZNYCH

• Authors: Marek Rymsza

Title variants

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The Role of Social Enterprises in Shaping Social Bonds

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The paper gives the characteristics of social entrepreneurship of the “old” social economy (born on the turn of XIX and XX centuries), and of the “new” social economy (developing on the turn of XX and XXI centuries) as well as social enterprises of different kinds. The main important, taking into account its function in building social capital and strengthening social bonds, is a distinction between social enterprises (SE) focused on reintegration of individuals excluded from the labor market because of their personal deficits, called WISE (work integration social enterprises) and social enterprises used as vehicles for economic development of marginalized communities (social enterprises locally embedded - SELE). The general tendency brings for WISE to involve vertical ties in reintegration programs, and SELE to built networks of stakeholders based on horizontal ties. The author argues that in current Poland the chance for surviving and development have social enterprises of a hybrid type, which combine two kind of social mission: reintegration of individuals excluded from the labor market and empowering marginalized local communities.

Keywords

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social enterprise; social bonds; local embeddedness; social economy; social citizenship; activation policy; activation programs; the principle of mutuality; work and social reintegration; social capital

• Publisher: Institute of Labor and Social Studies, Warsaw
• Journal: Polityka Społeczna
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 7(448)
• Pages: 14-18

Contributors

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Marek Rymsza

• Instytut Stosowanych Nauk Społecznych UW