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The Influence of Historical and Institutional Legacies on Present-Day Social Enterprises in CEE Countries

In Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Croatia, social enterprises are not simply a result of the socio-political transformation that took place in the 1990s and 2000s ; or has their emergence been influenced only by EU integration. Current social enterprises are, in fact, products of a history of these countries dating back to the 19th century, when cooperatives, foundations and associations tried to meet social needs linked to the industrialisation process. This historical background is presented in the first section of this chapter. The following sections discuss the current situation of social enterprise (SE) in the four countries under consideration: Section 2 analyses the institutional background within which social enterprises emerged and operate, while Section 3 focuses on their eco-system. A mapping of the SE phenomenon is then provided in Section 4, before comparative findings are presented in Section 5.

social enterprise, social entrepreneurship, postsocialist societies

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