engleski

Social Enterprise in Croatia: Charting New Territories

The first part of the paper deals with various notions and historical, contextual and conceptual issues that may contribute to the overall understanding of the social enterprise field in Croatia. A short overview of the concepts and terms that have a longer tradition and recognition will be presented ; in so doing, we will also capture historical contexts and changes, some of them still present in contemporary society. In the second part, we will propose a typology of social enterprise in Croatia that is based on the EMES approach. This attempt will take into account internal factors—such as the entrepreneur’s motivation for establishing and running a social enterprise and the enterprise’s social mission, field of activity and type of governance—but also external forces, such as public policies, financial incentives, etc. The proposed typology will enable comparative analysis across regions within the ICSEM project and will help to gain a better understanding of the field. In addition, it will serve as a basis for empirical verification in the quantitative part of the study. In the final part of the paper, we will try to map and describe the main trajectories of the SE field’s institutional framework development: legal forms used by social enterprises, institutions and bodies involved, public policies and programmes, and main financial incentives. We will also provide an insight of how the existing institutional environment relates to the different social enterprise models. The main goal is to apprehend the extent to which existing institutional frameworks relate to and communicate with identified types of social enterprises.

social enterprise ; social entrepreneurship ; typology ; ICSEM

nije evidentirano