Abstract
Interest in social entrepreneurship is growing widely not only in Brazil but in the world. Several developed countries have stepped forward to develop policies to support this area not only as a tool to fulfill the government failures such as poverty, health, education, unemployment among others, but also because of all the benefits that social enterprises have in relation to society. However, it is possible to identify a lack of political support for social entrepreneurship in Brazil. Given the needs in the Brazilian context of improvements in several areas where the state can not cover actions in their entirety as social exclusion, income distribution and especially professionalization of youth and creating jobs, we need a deep analysis of how social entrepreneurship can act as a modifying element of this scenario. Thus, with Brazil a country developing rapidly, it is important to verify public policies that support social entrepreneurship in already developed countries and carry out studies on the suitability and applicability of these policies in the Brazilian reality. Thus, this paper aims to study the trends of social entrepreneurship in some developed countries as well as analyzing public policies implemented by these countries, and considering the Brazilian context, present some policy proposals to support social entrepreneurship in Brazil.
Highlights
Social entrepreneurship involves the action of volunteer organizations or nonprofits seeking actions with positive social impact on several fronts in need of encouragement or actions of the state.The search for the regulation of social enterprises is recent, but the roots of social work are old
Letts et al (1999) argue that in the 60’s, philanthropy was already used in the U.S as an “arm for research and development”, Landin (1993) believes that social entrepreneurship in the United States started around the 70s to designate nonprofit organizations that provide public services
This article aims to understand the role of social entrepreneurship in different countries, as well as the public policies adopted to support the social sector.it becomes possible to seek reflections on this theme for the Brazilian reality in order to propose policies to promote social entrepreneurship that can bring development to less fortunate areas that suffer from economic or social exclusion
Summary
Social entrepreneurship involves the action of volunteer organizations or nonprofits seeking actions with positive social impact on several fronts in need of encouragement or actions of the state.The search for the regulation of social enterprises is recent, but the roots of social work are old. The decision to start a social enterprise can be motivated, according Oberfield and Dees (1999), by personal values or by the opportunity to save: ment of certain economic and social objectives, and which has an ability to bring innovative solutions to problems such as social exclusion and unemployment (OECD, 1999). This article aims to understand the role of social entrepreneurship in different countries, as well as the public policies adopted to support the social sector.it becomes possible to seek reflections on this theme for the Brazilian reality in order to propose policies to promote social entrepreneurship that can bring development to less fortunate areas that suffer from economic or social exclusion. 494) emphasizing the social value beyond financial returns (Haughton, 2008) In this respect, social entrepreneurship is a private activity conducted in the interest of the public, organized with an entrepreneurial strategy but whose main goal is not profit maximization, but the achieve-. The reflections that follow propose the adoption of policies to support the social sector in Brazil
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