Abstract
Abstract Europe 2020 strategy of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth also implies policies for boosting social innovations. In this context, it is relevant to encourage solutions such as social entrepreneurship as it is addressing social and environmental issues while employing entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship depends on the context of its emergence and implementation. In this regard, the context-specific factors play an important role. Following the Cultural Political Economy approach, the article examines on different factors that have influenced on the adoption of amendments of the Slovenian Social Entrepreneurship Act in 2018. Selection of the case study of Slovenia bases on the findings implying that Slovenia has still not overcome the initial phase of the development of the social entrepreneurship. The article reveals that there are still issues relevant for running social enterprises that are not sufficiently regulated by the law. One of them is a training of the vulnerable groups in terms of their technological skills in order to ensure their efficiency and productiveness in Work Integration Social Enterprises.
Highlights
Social entrepreneurship is following social mission that focuses on creating systemic and sustainable change while addressing the needs of others (Beugré 2017); it applies the needs of the principles of social responsibility
From 2018 on, the areas in which social entrepreneurship activities can be conducted are no longer defined by law
If the legislation provides more incentives for developing technological skills of labour force in WISEs, it could accelerate the business development of social enterprises, and in particular contribute to effective solutions to social issues and provide greater social impact
Summary
Social entrepreneurship is following social mission that focuses on creating systemic and sustainable change while addressing the needs of others (Beugré 2017); it applies the needs of the principles of social responsibility. It is a key element of the European social model and is closely linked to the Europe 2020 strategy (Tomaževič and Cantele 2019). As social enterprises depend on the contexts in which they operate, the barriers that they face are specific to those contexts (Bradač Hojnik 2017)
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