In order to provide guidance for the European Social Entrepreneurship Funds and the Programme for Social Change and Innovation, the European Commission decided to “develop a methodology to measure the socio-economic benefits created by social enterprises” and “their impact on the...

The given article reflects the situation of Slovak social economy. It takes into account and presents the evolution of social economy and its present perception in Slovakia. Within the Central European countries, Slovakia was the first country to define social economy in terms of legislative...

The aim of this paper is to describe the aid and support provided for social economy in Poland, especially with respect to social cooperatives. In Poland idea of social economy spread after 1989. One example of social economy entity in Poland is new type of cooperative – social cooperative....

Social economy could be considered a response to the current eco-socio-economic crisis, in fact the first crisis of the globalization era. Developing social economy could mean sustainable, largely non-exportable jobs, social inclusion, improvement of local social services, and territorial...

Social entrepreneurship is commonly used to qualify economic initiatives that serve social and/or environmental mission and that reinvest a large part of their surpluses in support of their mission. Even though this definition is not yet stabilized and its boundaries remain unclear, it aims to...