Social enterprise

Various companies and employers who want to create work, employment and qualifications for the disabled, disadvantaged and other target groups of labor market policy see themselves as social enterprises .

Overview

Social enterprises are, on the one hand, employers who offer qualifications and temporary employment, and on the other hand, integration companies that have already been assigned to the general labor market by the legislature.

In addition, the following organizations can also be considered as social enterprises (Germany):

Companies of the cooperative movement,
Charities,
Foundations
Ideal associations
Voluntary services or agencies
Alternative, women's, men's and environmental movements
Self-help movement
Sociocultural Centers
Mutual exchange systems
Neighborhood and community economy initiatives

Difference to social enterprise

Social enterprises ( social entrepreneurs ) to solve social problems with innovative business concepts. They try to use entrepreneurial means to change the social conditions in which a social problem exists. To do this, they develop business models that are financially self-supporting. That is not always easy. The reason for this is that social entrepreneurs are mostly active in difficult areas of society that do not function according to supply and demand like traditional markets.

Difference to responsible corporate management

With responsible corporate management (Corporate Social Responsibility / CSR), companies also take on social responsibility. In the foreground, however, is the question: How can one meet one's social, ecological and economic responsibility in the company. The point here is not what the company can do “good” with its profits, but how it generates these profits.

Individual evidence

↑ The spectrum of social enterprises in Germany: Karl Birkhölzer: Third System and Social Economy in a European Context. In: Birkhölzer, Klein, Priller, Zimmer (Ed.): Third Sector / Third System. Wiesbaden 2005, p. 87
↑ GründerZeiten 27 "Social Entrepreneurship". Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, accessed on August 22, 2016 .
↑ Christel Nelius & Felix Dresewski: Responsible corporate management - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in medium- sized companies. Berlin 2014. Ed .: UPJ. ISBN 978-3-937765-04-4 .

Web links

BMWi start-up portal: social and nursing services
GründerZeiten 27 "Social entrepreneurship"

[1] The spectrum of social enterprises in Germany: Karl Birkhölzer: Third System and Social Economy in a European Context. In: Birkhölzer, Klein, Priller, Zimmer (Ed.): Third Sector / Third System. Wiesbaden 2005, p. 87

[2] GründerZeiten 27 "Social Entrepreneurship". Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, accessed on August 22, 2016 .

[3] Christel Nelius & Felix Dresewski: Responsible corporate management - Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in medium- sized companies. Berlin 2014. Ed .: UPJ. ISBN 978-3-937765-04-4 .