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Social entrepreneurship
Petrus, Šimon ; Tomšej, Jakub (advisor) ; Štefko, Martin (referee)
Social entrepreneurship Abstract Social entrepreneurship is a new way of providing social support that is increasingly gaining popularity. Social enterprises are popular initiatives that use market mechanisms to finance their goals that are beneficial to society. The aim of this thesis is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of social entrepreneurship, both its international roots for creating necessary context and especially its Czech form. It develops its topic into three thematic areas. The first one focuses on defining basic terminology of the field including the term social entrepreneurship itself, but also other terms such as social economy or third sector. It also introduces the basic conceptions of social entrepreneurship, namely European one and American one, while due to the greater relevance for Czech social entrepreneurship, more emphasis is placed on the European concept of social entrepreneurship. Last but not least, the most commonly used variation of social entrepreneurship is defined in the first chapter. Social enterprises in this subtype are called Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) and focus on the integration and employment of people who are disadvantaged in some way in the labour market. The second part of the thesis focuses on social entrepreneurship in the...
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Social Entrepreneurship as Socially Responsible and Sustainable Business
Vilímovská, Magdaléna ; Dohnalová, Marie (advisor) ; Deverová, Lenka (referee)
The thesis focuses on comparing the concept of social entrepreneurship with the concepts of corporate social responsibility and sustainability. The theoretical part describes the civil sector, social economy, social entrepreneurship, and corporate social responsibility and sustainability. In the empirical part, the principles and indicators of social entrepreneurship are compared with European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). Subsequently, the topics and areas of these standards are identified through thematic analysis of specific activities of three selected social enterprises. The research aims to determine whether, and if so, how, the activities of social enterprises correspond with the principles of corporate social responsibility and sustainability according to ESRS. The results of the research show that the analysed social enterprises in all thematic areas of the environmental, social and economic pillars meet the social responsibility and sustainability criteria through their activities.
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Human capital to support the development of the circular economy
KREJZOVÁ, Dagmar
his thesis deals with the analysis of the interdependence of human capital and the development of the circular economy in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part focuses on the depreciation of human capital in the context of the emergence of Industry 4.0. Key concepts and contexts are defined. The analysis of human capital depreciation is presented and the circular economy and its challenges are described. The link between the circular and social economy is also emphasised. The empirical part was developed as a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. The qualitative part was carried out in the form of semi-structured questionnaires with experts working in the field of circular economy. On the basis of the evaluation of the qualitative part, a list of steps was drawn up that will lead to an improvement of the situation in the connection between the circular and social economy. The experts contacted were asked to rate the steps according to their urgency. This part of the research was carried out using a quantitative method.
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Following the Local impact in projects focused on Social Enterprising
Plecháčková, Taťána ; Dohnalová, Marie (advisor) ; Šloufová, Romana (referee)
This graduation thesis is focused on Following the Principle of Local impact in projects focused on Social Enterprising. First chapters bring theoretical concept of Social Economy and Social Enterprising subjects. Second part of the work contains project of research and analysis of information acquired from companies that participated in a research. The Local impact as a fundamental Principle of Social economy is described on the basis of respondent's answers concerning the communication and cooperation with stakeholders, using variety of local resources, satisfying local needs and participating in community planning.
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The controversial nature of a social enterprise as a commercialized organization of the civil sector
Hořínková, Monika ; Frič, Pavol (advisor) ; Witz, Petr (referee)
The topic of this diploma thesis is the commercialization of civic organizations, which we understand as the process in which they take over some procedures, methods and strategies of the commercial sector in order to generate some profit. As the highest level of commercialization, this work considers the transformation of civil organization into a so called social enterprise.At the next potential level, this civic organization would become a pure market enterprise acting as socially responsible. Thus, a social enterprise is defined as a civic organization, for which profiting is just as important as an increase in public benefit by fulfilling of its own altruistic mission. However, it is said that this social mission may be threatened by the economic one. Whereas the social enterprise combines those two opposing attributes in the form of a social and economic mission, it is considered to be controversial. That's why the aim of this diploma thesis is to determine the importance of a transformation of civic organization into the social enterprise for its life and how this transformation affects its functioning and its essence. The diploma theses is based primarily on the theory of civil society, the civil sector, the social economy and the theory of social enterprise. It is a case study, which...
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Civic society organizations providing social services and entrepreneurial activities in Pardubice region
Marková, Tereza ; Dohnalová, Marie (advisor) ; Šloufová, Romana (referee)
SYNOPSIS This thesis covers partial universe of civic society organizations that provide social services in Pardubice region. The primary goal of the thesis is to explore, through a questionnaire research, whether the income generated by these organizations is a determining factor in their association with the concept of social economy and social enterprise. The secondary goal is to identify, using semi-structured interviews with the representatives of civic society organizations, how they fulfill principles of social enterprise based to the "softer definition" developed by EMES. The first two chapters introduce concepts of public sector and social economy as well as identify their similarities and differences. It is followed by a description of social services and support of civic society organizations from the view point of several parties. The third chapter is dedicated to the actual research.
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Social Enterprises in Prague Communication of Entrepreneurship with a Social Benefit
Čížková, Klára ; Matyáš, Ondřej (advisor) ; Dohnalová, Marie (referee)
The diploma thesis focuses on social enterprises and their use of marketing tools for their communication. In its first part the field where they operate within the Czech Republic is laid out including the legislative setting. Since the concept is relatively new here, approaches and inspiration from abroad are a cited. The part dedicated to marketing introduces different approaches to marketing presentations and to the overall communication of social enterprises and social firms. The outcome of this was to portray the possibilities of their communication with their target audiences. The research itself looks at the communication of social enterprises from several viewpoints. First of all it aims to show the approach taken by the subjects of social economy themselves. This is done through questionnaires and content analysis of documents. Also the view on the matter is expressed through an interview with a consultant of NESsT, an organization which deals with the theme of social entrepreneurship. The last angle, which is represented by a questionnaire for a selected segment of the public looks at their view of social enterprises and firms and their communication.
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