Abstract
This paper aims to examine the motivations, values, and job satisfaction among the people employed in the sector of social entrepreneurship that were obtained through a qualitative study of ten Croatian social cooperatives. In our analysis, we interpreted the experiences of working in a social enterprise from the employee perspective. Our findings suggest that the participants/employees of social enterprises favour intrinsic motivation and values related to their jobs, that they describe their working conditions in social enterprises positively, and that they share a perceived increase in the quality of life since having started working at a social enterprise. The described relations between motivation, job experiences, and participatory management allowed us to build upon and extend the existing body of research on motivation and job satisfaction in the social economy sector.
Highlights
Social entrepreneurship and economy have become increasingly prominent and accepted globally as economic and business models that aim at fulfilling a social or societal mission rather than pursuing uncontrolled growth and amassing profit (Perić and Alpeza, 2011; OECD, 2013)
This paper aims to examine the motivations, values, and job satisfaction among the people employed in the sector of social entrepreneurship that were obtained through a qualitative study of ten Croatian social cooperatives
Our findings suggest that the participants/employees of social enterprises favour intrinsic motivation and values related to their jobs, that they describe their working conditions in social enterprises positively, and that they share a perceived increase in the quality of life since having started working at a social enterprise
Summary
Social entrepreneurship and economy have become increasingly prominent and accepted globally as economic and business models that aim at fulfilling a social or societal mission rather than pursuing uncontrolled growth and amassing profit (Perić and Alpeza, 2011; OECD, 2013). An upward trend in this development has Revija za sociologiju | Croatian Sociological Review 50 (2020), 1: 7–30 been observed in particular since the last economic crisis that started in 2008 when the need to create a more equitable and responsible economic model and business behaviour became more apparent At this point, even the mainstream social circles have started to question the relationship between economic wealth and the quality of life of the majority, as well as the attitude towards resources and the ecosystem (Jackson, 2009; Stiglitz, Sen and Fitoussi, 2009). Shifting the focus to workers’ evaluations enabled us to detect the impact of social entrepreneurship on workers’ perceived well-being This allowed us to identify whether social entrepreneurship fulfilled one of its social missions regarding participatory management of an enterprise
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