Ciepielewska-Kowalik, Anna
[VerfasserIn];
Les, Ewa
[VerfasserIn]
Social enterprises in Poland: Competitive advantages, challenges, obstacles and innovative ways forward. A case of early childhood education and care services
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Titel:
Social enterprises in Poland: Competitive advantages, challenges, obstacles and innovative ways forward. A case of early childhood education and care services
Beteiligte:
Ciepielewska-Kowalik, Anna
[VerfasserIn];
Les, Ewa
[VerfasserIn]
Erschienen:
Louvain-la-Neuve: European Regional Science Association (ERSA), 2014
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This paper presents the definitional discourse on the Polish social economy organizations and social enterprises in the milieu of academic experts and practitioners, analyzes their competitive advantages, identifies major challenges and barriers and provides some key recommendations on how social economy organizations and social enterprises can be supported in Poland. With an eye on early childhood education & care services we outline the performance and impact of social enterprises in this policy area and implications for academic understanding of social enterprise. The analysis is based on quantitative and qualitative studies conducted in the years 2011-2013. It describes the scale, specificity and socio-economic potential of social enterprises in childcare. The national and local policy towards social enterprises, as well as their role in fostering private regulation schemes in childcare policy are also examined in this paper. Social economy and social enterprise are new terms in Poland. They have emerged after the 1989 from the concepts of third sector and co-operatives. In Poland the concept of social enterprise has received initial recognition among government officials, professionals, academics and the third sector due to EU programs on social inclusion and economic reintegration such as EQUAL and Human Capital. Social enterprises are understood as a subtype of the third sector and as a new development within this sector covering existing organizations as well as its new types (Le¶, Kolin 2009). Most recent Polish studies argue, however, that there is not yet a common definition of social enterprise. Polish social enterprises consist of a plurality of organizational forms that have developed between the market and the state, but also with a close relation with the public sector. In Poland the majority of social enterprises, which consist a minority of the social economy, consist of work integration, service oriented and local development oriented organizations. This development within third sector ...