Naslov
The Stakeholder Approach to the Social Supermarkets Phenomenon

Autori
Knežević, Blaženka ; Marić, Ivana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
MIC 2015: Managing Sustainable Growth / Žižmond, Egon ; Gmezelj Omerzel, Doris, Laporšek, Suzana - Koper : Univerza na Primorskem, 2015, 217-217

ISBN
978-961-266-179-3

Skup
MIC 2015 management International Conference: Managing Sustainable Growth

Mjesto i datum
Portorož, Slovenija, 28.05.2015. - 30.05.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
social supermarkets; social entrepreneurship; stakeholder approach

Sažetak
Despite huge technological, industrial and cultural progress, Europe and rest of the world is facing with the significant increase of unemployment, poverty and other social problems that cannot be solved by government or its institutions. This leads to the appearance of various social innovations and projects which are led by social entrepreneurs who are trying to address those problems. One of the phenomena in the field of social entrepreneurship is a phenomenon of social supermarkets. Social supermarkets enable the entrepreneurial way of accessing the social problems which are the result of inefficient food distribution within the population. Especially, they are an entrepreneurial answer to the increased risk of poverty in EU countries on one side, and the problem of growing food waste in traditional supply chains on the other side. Social supermarkets have elements of social enterprises focusing on the work of volunteers promoting social values such as: social responsibility, solidarity and civic initiatives. Moreover, the phenomenon of social supermarkets promotes cooperation between private, civil sector and government throughout positive social initiatives fostering social inclusion of unemployed citizens. In Croatia social supermarkets started to operate in 2009 and up to date there is a dozen of them which operate in different cities. At the moment, less than 10% of socially endangered citizens in Croatia are using services provided from social supermarkets. In the areas of management of non-profit organizations, social entrepreneurship and food supply chain management, this topic is not yet fully scientifically investigated nor analyzed, especially in terms of stakeholder approach. There are several stakeholders in social supermarkets: social entrepreneurs, users, volunteers, civil organizations, government, local community, participants of traditional supply chains (such as: food manufacturers, distributors and retailers) and religious institutions. The main goal of this paper is to define social supermarkets’ stakeholders and to analyze and explain their interests, intents, expectations and roles in operation of social supermarkets.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Ekonomija

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