Search results for: SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• Looking for Social Enterprise Models in Poland: institutional and historical context

  Publication

  • A. Ciepielewska-Kowalik
  • B. Pieliński
  • M. Starnawska
  • A. Szymańska

  - Year 2015

  The paper is an attempt at identification of key social enterprise models in Poland. The authors recognize three models: entrepreneurial non-profit organizations, cooperatives as well as social integration clubs and centres. Their social and institutional background is presented together with institutional trajectories of social enterprise development.

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• Social enterprises as a fertile ground for reducing social and economic exclusion - good practice examples from Poland

  Publication

  • M. Starnawska

  - Year 2014

  The work briefly outlines the two dimensions of value generated by social enterprises to the economy and society. This is done in reference to the social cooperatives in Poland that are good examples of social enterprises according to EMES indicators

• The first International Comparative Social Enterprise Models Working Paper: Poland

  Publication

  • M. Starnawska
  • A. Ciepielewska-Kowalik
  • B. Pieliński
  • A. Szymańska

  - Year 2014

  In this paper, social enterprise models: entrepreneurial nonprofit organizations, cooperatives and vocational enterprises for the disabled are presented. Their emergence and institutionalization in the Polish social enterprise organizations landscape is provided and analysed. Also, the authors point to the convergences and divergences between these three models. Additionally historical background and institutional trajectories...