Przedsiębiorczość społeczna w społeczeństwie obywatelskim w Polsce

• Authors: Marzena Starnawska

Title variants

EN

Social entrepreneurship in civil society in Poland

Abstracts

EN

This paper introduces the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship in the Polish civil society. It starts with a presentation of key determinants that have driven its development and popularity. In the main section, the complexity of social enterprise and entrepreneurship concepts are introduced, with their key characteristics. Following that, three dominant schools of thought on social enterprise are presented with reference to civil society phenomenon. Before locating social entrepreneurship, some key elements and methodological issues in the area of civil society are analyzed and discussed. Finally, two models of social enterprise are identified and their background briefly presented. The author supplements this analysis with some key statistics on social enterprise models for Poland. They introduce the reader into the state of the art of social enterprises in Poland. Also, valuable data from Global Entrepreneurship Monitor on social entrepreneurship are introduced to give the overall picture of the phenomenon in Central and Eastern European countries. Both analytical approaches are discussed in the light of the three schools of thought on social enterprise.

Keywords

EN

social enterprise; social entrepreneurship; civil society

• Publisher: Kancelaria Sejmu / Chancellery of the Sejm
• Journal: Studia BAS
• Year: 2015
• Issue: 4(44)
• Pages: 167-203

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Marzena Starnawska

• Politechnika Gdańska

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

11542297