Authors
Zhokhova V.
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Degree
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PhD in Economis, School of Economics and Management |
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E-mail
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valentina.zhokhova@gmail.com |
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Location
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Vladivostok |
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Articles
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Social Entrepreneurship: Concept, essence and meaningIn recent studies of business and management, social entrepreneurship is one of the most actively
studied areas. The following article provides analysis of major studies of social entrepreneurship
concepts published in scientific magazines from 1998 up to 2014. The research also provides
features of social organization and characteristics of social entrepreneur. The concept of social
entrepreneurship still poorly studied. That is proved by variety of theoretical studies and by limited
number of empirical researches in this area. The main factor that differs social entrepreneurship
from traditional one is the ability of entrepreneurs to use special methods. Social entrepreneurship
can be defined as; a model of political transformation, process of activity, entrepreneurial behavior
of the social initiatives’ beginner who creates social organization and who is interested in tangible
results. The research of social entrepreneur defined his ability to find the possibilities in entrepreneurial
activities and use resources for achieving social mission and fixing social problems.
This ability can be aimed to self-realization of an individual, organization of charity, social help,
or result orientated. The main types of social entrepreneur organizations are traditional noncommercial
organizations, noncommercial social-oriented firms, hybrid organizations, commercial
social-oriented firms. The research shows that Russian practice does not have commercial and
noncommercial social-orientated firms and hybrid organizations. As the result, research provides
specific major concepts of social entrepreneurship, defined characteristics and nuances of social
entrepreneurship, and analysis of social entrepreneurs’ types and intentions.
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