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Social business
KUČEROVÁ, Michaela
Social entrepreneurship is one of the possible ways to run enterprise. Around the world and in Western Europe this type of enterprise is quite common and is slowly becoming familiar in the Czech Republic. A social enterprise is one of the ways to employ groups in danger of being socially excluded. It provides hope of improvement of living standard, as well as hope of reintegration for the disabled, youth, homeless individuals, individuals leaving institutional care, victims of criminal behaviour, carers looking after relatives, persons who have experienced drug addiction, the long-term unemployed and others in dangered of being socially excluded. The aim of this thesis is to provide a more comprehensive summary about the constantly developing social entrepreneurship landscape in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part of the thesis first describes social economics in general, followed by the definition of a social enterprise. This includes the listing of the major international organisations supporting social entrepreneurship. The fundamental chapters of the theoretical part address the possibility to finance social entrepreneurship through the European Union. At present there are two calls for proposals, to which applicants can respond in order to obtain the funds required to set up a social enterprise. Financing through the European Union is administered by the European social fund and its operational programme, safeguarded in the Czech Republic by the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. At the present time, the Integrated operating programme includes call for proposal no.8: Services in the social intervention scope and in the operating programme Human resources and employment call for proposals no.30: Social economics awaits its respondents. The logistics of obtaining European Union grants from the European social fund and its operational programmes through the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and its calls for proposals is very complicated. Therefore the aim of this thesis is to summarise the differences between both calls for proposals to ease the understanding of these very matters. To further my understanding of these issues I also successfully communicated directly with the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs and the Ministry of the Interior. The results of the research were not surprising for me. As expected the highest number of social enterprises in our country is in the problematic regions with the highest long-term unemployment rates or with a high proportion of the Roma ethnic minority. Furthermore, the research suggested unambiguously that, for individuals from certain groups, the highest number of social enterprises were concerned with employing the physically disabled to give them the chance to reintegrate into mainstream society. Closely following with approximately the same number of people from different socially excluded groups are enterprises that employ the long-term unemployed, the ethnic minorities or youth in difficult life circumstances. The respondents also confirmed the complicated administration of the enterprise start-up phase, as well as concerns about the future ability to finance their business. In the conclusion section of the thesis it is established that social entrepreneurship is unlikely to have an easy future as the deadline to apply for European Union grants to finance projects is in June 2013 and further support of social politics is uncertain. However, in the current uneasy times of economic crisis and rising unemployment the social entrepreneurship should be treated with high consideration as it is one of the possible ways to deal with such problems in all countries.
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Opportunities to develop the social economy and social enterprise
Nováková, Lenka ; Kadeřábková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Khendriche Trhlínová, Zuzana (referee)
Diploma thesis focuses on the social economy and social entrepreneurship. Its aim is to identify possible directions of further development of the social economy in the Czech Republic. The starting point for this work is the assumption that successful development of social entrepreneurship is dependent on access to financial resources, a good legislative definition and availability of the necessary information. The operational objective is to analyze the range of financial instruments available to social enterprises. The work is divided into several parts. The first chapter summarizes the historical development of the social economy in Western European countries and subsequently in the Czech Republic. The next chapter presents the approaches to the concept of social economy from the perspective of several European institutions. The chapter is also a case of good practice from Italy. The following chapter, in which are presented the main theoretical approaches to the social economy in the Czech Republic. In the analytical part of the work are first defined problem areas of social entrepreneurship, it is also stated range of financial instruments available to social enterprises and subsequently defined possible directions of further development of the social economy.
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The Marketing Strategy of a Social Business Mléčný bar Bílá vrána
Lišková, Marta ; Odehnalová, Jitka (advisor) ; Průša, Přemysl (referee)
This diploma thesis studies the marketing strategy of a social business Mléčný bar Bílá vrána. The theoretical part of this work presents the process of creation, implementation and control of a marketing strategy and features definitions of social business and its difference in comparison to classical businesses. The practical part of this work analyses the real strategy of Mléčný bar Bílá vrána. The strategy is researched and evaluated here. This work brings suggestions for improvements of this strategy.
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Social economics in the Czech Republic
Jičínská, Aneta ; Krebs, Vojtěch (advisor) ; Szabová, Lucia (referee)
My thesis deals with social economics and its subjects, social enterprises. The first part of my thesis introduces us to main terms and the development of social economics in the Czech republic. I also focus my attention on its pillars and targets in view of the determination of the sphere of its impact. Therefore we specify here the fields in which social economics works. The main aim of my thesis is to characterise social economics and firms which are considered to be social enterprises. Furthermore, I want to refer to the usefulness and importacne of social economics both for a society and the entire economics as well. In the practical part I focus my attention on the particular social enterprise, which is in operation for several years, and I try to refer to its helpfulness. In conclusion of my thesis I come to the evaluation of the importance and position of social economics together with my judgement on its usefulness.
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Strategická analýza neziskové organizace
Doležalová, Jitka ; Vávrová, Hana (advisor) ; Pemová, Tereza (referee)
The aim of the final thesis was implementation of strategic analysis of dental orthodontia laboratory. The final thesis should help to laboratory during the process of transformation to social entrepreneurship. Strategic analysis pursues macroeconomic and microeconomic environment that influence enterprise in profitable and nonprofit surroundings. In case that laboratory will execute all statutory claims, transformation could be done in january 2011. Results of the analysis proved very good strategic position of laboratory between competition. High quality of the products was the main reason. I determined two strategic aims for laboratory as social entrepreneurship. The one of them deal with the employing of the handicapped or disadvantaged people in the labour market. The second one focus on the sustenance of the contemporary high quality. I divided these aims to the six tactical goals.
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New Approaches to Entrepreneurship Applied Through a Business Plan
Caspe Pikhartová, Dagmar ; Hartman, Ladislav (advisor) ; Brůhová Foltýnová, Hana (referee)
This master's thesis deals with the potential for a car-sharing service in Prague. The service allows renting cars for a specified number of hours. Car-sharing is a commonly offered service in cities of the developed world. The theoretical section of the thesis introduces car-sharing and the current level of its adoption. Next, two conceptual bases for the development of the business plan are presented. The first is the macroeconomic theory of natural capitalism. At the theory's core is the recognition of the importance of natural capital. An improvement in protection of natural capital can be achieved by raising the consumption of services, instead of material products. In the case of car-sharing, the consumer only pays for the actual use of car, not for the ownership. The second concept is social entrepreneurship, which is an inspiring alternative to managing a business entity. Its goal is not only financial gain, but also positive social impact. The impact in case of car-sharing is in lowering the number of vehicles on the road and improvement of quality of life in cities. The business plan includes two financial alternatives. The thesis concludes that running a car-sharing organization in Prague is conceivable, but requires support from the municipality. Car-sharing cannot be expected to generate quick profit, but rather the profit model builds slowly. The final part of the thesis presents balanced scorecard developed for the first year of operation with the goal of achieving the optimistic alternative modeled in the business plan. The key to success in the first year is gaining and retaining customers.
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Sociální podnikání neziskových organizací v ČR
Šmídová, Tereza ; Vávrová, Hana (advisor) ; Boukal, Petr (referee)
The final thesis presents findings of the nongovernmental non-profit organizations' entrepreneurial activities in the Czech Republic. The aim of the thesis was to find out if NGOs fulfil criteria for social firm according to defined standards. NGOs necessarily run a business to get additional money for their activities to substitute diminishing state funds. The research focused on NGOs' entrepreneurship was done by electronic questionnaire within this thesis. Its purpose is to inform about motivation, risks, problems, personal characteristics and financial sustainability of social firms. The study has evidence that none of the respondents from Czech NGOs fully met standards' requirements. The organizations usually are not able to earn at least 50 % of the firm's turnover through sales of goods and services and also 25 - 55 % of the workforce is not disadvantaged in gaining employment.
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Mikroúvěr a sociální podnikání
Kotálová, Radka ; Burgerová, Jiřina (advisor) ; Chalupníček, Pavel (referee)
This work deals with the fight against poverty using microcredit and attempts to explain the principles of social business. It describes the concept of microfinance and its history and offers examples of microfinance institutions operating in Mexico and Bangladesh and their comparison. The dark side of microcredit (i.e. dowry and violence) concludes this paper. It is based on books by Professor Yunus and data concerning the microfinance institutions of Mexico and Bangladesh provided by the MIX Market platform.
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Methods of Management of Multinational Non-Government Non-Profit Organizations
Slámová, Daniela ; Kadeřábková, Jaroslava (advisor) ; Jetmar, Marek (referee)
Ve své diplomové práci se zabývám problematikou financování neziskových organizací. Konkrétně jednou z jeho způsobů, tzv. sociálním podnikáním. Neziskové organizace jsou většinou odkázány na granty, u kterých si nikdy nemohou být jisté, zda se jim je podaří získat a je tím tak ohrožena jejich dlouhodobá udržitelnost a stabilita. Cílem mé práce je přiblížit sociální podnikání, neboť toto zatím není v České republice (hlavně mezi neziskovými organizacemi) moc známé. A především ukázat jeho užitečnost a využitelnost při zajišťování dlouhodobé finanční stability neziskových organizací. Hlavním přínosem této diplomové práce by mělo být rozšíření povědomí o sociálním podnikání a o důležitosti používání marketingu v neziskových organizacích. Vedle teoretických poznatků se výše zmíněné cíle pokusím přiblížit i sestavením konkrétního marketingového plánu pro konkrétní mezinárodní neziskovou organizaci. Touto neziskovou organizací je International Young Naturefriends (IYNF). Jelikož téma sociálního podnikání není zatím moc rozšířené, čerpám v této práci hlavně z materiálů poskytnutých mezinárodní neziskovou organizací Nonprofit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT).
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New forms of fighting poverty in developing countries
Jiránková, Karolina ; Matějka, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Weissová, Petra (referee)
Diplomová práce rozebírá formy poskytování rozvojové pomoci mezinárodním společenstvím, popisuje přístup jednotlivých zúčastněných stran a analyzuje efektivnost současné rozvojové pomoci. Dále nabízí nové alternativní způsoby rozvojové pomoci, především pak systém mikrofinancování. Porovnává výhody a přínos mikrofinancí a možné překážky. V poslední části popisuje nově zaváděnou formu, tzv. sociální podnikání a ilustruje jeho fungování na konkrétním příkladu spolupráce dvou společností v Bangladéši.
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