<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Social entrepreneurship is important tool in eliminating regional disparities, inclusion of socially excluded people into society, overall improvement of the quality of life and much more. This paper aims to analyse the development of municipal social entrepreneurship in the conditions of the Banská Bystrica self-governing region, where some of the less developed districts are located. The main sources of research were questionnaire realized among local government representatives, plan of the economic and social development of the district and statistical data. In the article, there were many indicators examined, such as quantity of the municipal social enterprises, its activities, support or barriers of its development. The results points to fact that only 7% of the participants of research own municipal social enterprise. The most common barrier to establish and manage these enterprises is inadequate knowledge of the relevant legislation.</p></abstract>

Social entrepreneurship is important tool in eliminating regional disparities, inclusion of socially excluded people into society, overall improvement of the quality of life and much more. This paper aims to analyse the development of municipal social entrepreneurship in the conditions of the Banská Bystrica self-governing region, where some of the less developed districts are located. The main sources of research were questionnaire realized among local government representatives, plan of the economic and social development of the district and statistical data. In the article, there were many indicators examined, such as quantity of the municipal social enterprises, its activities, support or barriers of its development. The results points to fact that only 7% of the participants of research own municipal social enterprise. The most common barrier to establish and manage these enterprises is inadequate knowledge of the relevant legislation.

Development of Municipal Social Entrepreneurship in the Conditions of the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region

EU agrarian Law

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Social entrepreneurship is important tool in eliminating regional disparities, inclusion of socially excluded people into society, overall improvement of the...

Development of Municipal Social Entrepreneurship in the Conditions of the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 7 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eual-2020-0007

Keywords
social policy, social economy, social entrepreneurship, municipal entrepreneurship

© 2020 Zina Machničová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Development of Municipal Social Entrepreneurship in the Conditions of the Banská Bystrica Self-Governing Region

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

Page range: 7 - 13

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/eual-2020-0007

Keywordssocial policy, social economy, social entrepreneurship, municipal entrepreneurship

© 2020 Zina Machničová et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
social policy, social economy, social entrepreneurship, municipal entrepreneurship