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Social entrepreneurship paradigm in light of best practices in Croatia and Poland

In recent decades, there is evidence on growth of entrepreneurship whose activity contains a social purpose. Social entrepreneurship is responding to social problems, creatively developing new conceptual frameworks, which generate added-value. Among the number of impressive features of social entrepreneurship, the most remarkable one is involvement of large number of various stakeholders from different fields, according to the type, mission, and needs of the organization. The concept of social entrepreneurship was not an issue for debate in Europe several years ago, but now it is making notable development across EU countries. In that sense, the intention of the paper is to review state of development, to address the important issue they are facing and experience referring to social entrepreneurship and social enterprises in Croatia and Poland. The objective of the paper is to describe the models of social entrepreneurship and social enterprise in the context of recent experience and to examine their appearance and nature in Croatia and Poland. In the paper, we use comparative analysis in the order to provide a deeper insight into the differences and similarities of legal frameworks, public policies, and supporting institutions reinforcing the development of social entrepreneurship in Croatia and Poland.

social entrepreneurship ; social enterprise ; legal framework ; cooperatives ; work integration enterprise

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