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Responsible entrepreneurship learning: Exploring the potential of students' cooperatives in Croatia

One aspect of cooperative sector in Croatia remained insufficiently recognised and unused in terms of revitalization of cooperative sector. It is the case with students' cooperatives, that counts around 550 students' cooperatives active within elementary and secondary schools. They operate as a form of extracurricular activities by which the students gain expertise, business skills and entrepreneurial attitudes, and are established by schools with the aim of production and creating new values. Some works indicate that significant component participating in students' cooperatives is skills in social sustainability - consisting of both entrepreneurial knowledge and socially sensitivity towards social and ecological issues (Tkalec et al., 2013). However, there are no enough studies to explore the students’ cooperatives as a places to learn about responsible entrepreneurship.Because there are no similar studies, the aim of the paper is to give a comprehensive analysis of the models of learning about responsible entrepreneurship through students’ cooperatives from the historical perspective until present. Also, the paper intends to identify main characteristics of students’ cooperatives sector and to recognise and define their potential role in development of responsible entrepreneurship in Croatia.

school cooperative ; student cooperative ; social innovation ; responsible entrepreneurship

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