The last three decades have seen an important surge of the non-governmental sector in the provision of foreign aid. Using NGOs to deliver aid can be a solution to bypass corrupt authorities, avoiding that aid resources are captured by local elites. However NGOs may also act as surrogates for...

Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit soll ein Überblick darüber gegeben werden, wie sich das Vergaberecht derzeit in Deutschland darstellt und welche Möglichkeiten Vergabeverfahren im sozialen Bereich bieten. Aufbauend auf Diskussionen zum Verhältnis von Politik und Dritter Sektor werden Besonderheiten...

The notion of social entrepreneurship has gained increasing recognition in the last years, both as an increasingly visible mode of economic action, and as an important policy tool. The paper outlines a typology that departs from a Schumpeterian view of entrepreneurship, that centers on the...

Der Begriff der "Sozialwirtschaft" dürfte bei eingehenderer Betrachtung zu den schwierigsten Ausdrücken der deutschen Sprache gehören, denn die mit ihm verbundenen Inhalte wechseln in erheblichem Ausmaß, je nachdem von wem und in welchem Kontext das Wort verwendet wird. Fragt man nach einer...

This paper contributes to the literature by carrying out the first empirical investigation into the role of different types of enterprises in the creation of social trust. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the...

This article contains main trends, assumptions and thesis about the social economy in Poland, which the author agree with. The main goal of it, is to bring together fundamental facts depicting the situation of the social economy in Poland (in theory and in practice) with the conditions that must...