出版社：Economic Laboratory for Transition Research Podgorica
摘要：Daily life in the world is accompanied by a variety of global socialproblems such as discrimination, ignorance, suicides, poverty, hunger,environmental pollution and several others frequently causedby human beings. These have been particularly exacerbated by therecent and arguably ongoing economic crisis. Traditional global marketmakers and participants are gradually getting involved in thecreation of social welfare while acting in a socially responsiblemanner, however, such actions are often led by a certain “fashion”or public pressure. Social entrepreneurship is cited as one of thosealternatives. This business model is driven by the desire to have socialimpact, it is one of the main tools being used as a response tofight against growing social exclusion and unemployment, dealingwith sensitive regional problems. According to European Commission,one of four start-ups each year is a social business company. Itis being championed as a new opportunity to reduce inequality andexclusion so as to encourage economic growth. However, althoughsocial entrepreneurship has won the attention of scientists, its inconsistenttheoretical basis and very limited perception are widelyargued. It is claimed that poor perception of the social business modelis a major barrier to the development of such entrepreneurshipin Europe. Lithuania is mentioned as one of seven countries wheresocial entrepreneurship development lags behind and, therefore, isnot involved in most of comparative reports of European countries.Accordingly, a lack of concrete data about this business model developmentand perception in Lithuania and its comparability with othercountries is noted. The main object – Lithuanian, Italian and Britishsocial business models. .The aim of article – compared Lithuanian,Italian and British social business models. The main results of study.Social entrepreneurship creates 6% of GDP in Europe. There is abo-ut 2 million social companies in the European Union which employ more than 2,06% of the active population workforce, most of which are men. An empirical study of Lithuanian population perception and awareness about social enterprises stressed that a great number of residents do not know anything about the existence of these social models. Those that know often tend to confuse it with other social business models or the social business model itself. Given the low level of population awareness about social enterprises there arises a need of awareness promotion.
关键词：social business;comparison of social business models;a social entrepreneur;social economy;social companies
