The field of the social economy and of the work integration social enterprises (WISE) in particular, is for many a more or less unknown area. Unlike ordinary enterprises the WISE's are different due to their aim of integrating disadvantaged people through work. In comparison with other small enterprises earlier research has shown that the WISE's are dealing with challenges regarding recruitment, participation, leadership, sustainable business ideas but above all, the access to funding. The purpose of this essay has therefore been to examine and analyze the financial situation of eight WISE's located in the Stockholm County. The results indicate that half of the enterprises perceive their economic situation as very unstable and as an obstacle to their further development. This perception seems to be more common among the younger enterprises which have not differentiated their businesses activities enough, which results in a greater reliance of the purchases of the public sector. The studied WISE's express a desire to reduce their dependence on the revenues from the public sector by increasing the revenues from other business activities, but this is something that has been proven to be both difficult and time consuming. In line with e.g. age, business maturation, expanded areas of business activities and increased knowledge, more funding opportunities seems to occur. A vast majority of the enterprises have a negative attitude towards external funding in terms of external equity capital, due to its presumable intrusion on the determination of the company. The field which WISE's are operating in is undoubtedly an important socioeconomic area since they react to one of the society’s most prominent problems; people in exclusion and all the problems the exclusion causes. The analysis of the examined enterprise's funding opportunities and its consequences are the main contributions of this essay as well as the further suggestions on how the WISE's financial situation can be improved.

Submitted by Alice Maria Salerno (alicemariasalerno@gmail.com) on 2016-12-15T11:08:06Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AliceSalerno_Thesis4YOU2.pdf: 948593 bytes, checksum: a99e35fb7ed7c80ab774b3fee17117c3 (MD5) / Rejected by Josineide da Silva Santos Locatelli (josineide.locatelli@fgv.br), reason: Hello Alice! You must to do some corrections on your thesis: Delete the numbers of all the pages before Introduction; however, they need to be considered, when starting the numbers on page introduction (example, if there were 8 pages before introduction, then the first page to be numbered is 9 – Introduction); The numbers have to be at the Right superior side of the page; Give 2 spaces before your name on the page 2; Underline the date at the page 4; Acknoledgments must to be before abstract, the sequence is: acknowledgements, abstract and resumo. Att, on 2016-12-15T18:03:31Z (GMT) / Submitted by Alice Maria Salerno (alicemariasalerno@gmail.com) on 2016-12-15T19:52:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AliceSalerno_Thesis4YOU2.pdf: 952419 bytes, checksum: 0cbe810c9497e0cb02ddfb492a32ba48 (MD5) / Rejected by Josineide da Silva Santos Locatelli (josineide.locatelli@fgv.br), reason: Hello Alice! In ACKNOLEDGMENTS is missing the letter W - Acknowledgment. on 2016-12-16T10:09:34Z (GMT) / Submitted by Alice Maria Salerno (alicemariasalerno@gmail.com) on 2016-12-16T21:39:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 AliceSalerno_Thesis4YOU2.pdf: 952814 bytes, checksum: 4d9a6c8103b4cabe3d3a8196f0eeeee6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Josineide da Silva Santos Locatelli (josineide.locatelli@fgv.br) on 2016-12-19T10:04:59Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 AliceSalerno_Thesis4YOU2.pdf: 952814 bytes, checksum: 4d9a6c8103b4cabe3d3a8196f0eeeee6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-19T19:20:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AliceSalerno_Thesis4YOU2.pdf: 952814 bytes, checksum: 4d9a6c8103b4cabe3d3a8196f0eeeee6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016 / This thesis is a case study on 4YOU2, a Brazilian social enterprise whose value proposition is bringing high-quality English language instruction to underprivileged Brazilians. 4YOU2 was founded in 2012 and, in 2016, the company is in the phase of growth and it is facing challenges in sustaining significant growth and impact while maintaining quality and low costs. The collection of data took place in the period between beginning of April 2016 and end of June 2016. The main sources of data used were personal interviews with main stakeholders and direct observations. The objective of the project was to analyze, through a qualitative approach, the nature of the challenges that 4YOU2 was facing. The findings emerged indicated that 4YOU2’s growth is driven by many competitive advantages, especially regarding the innovativeness and attractiveness of the offer, the price component of the value proposition, the personal characteristics of the founder, and the strategic network of partners and supporters around the organization. On the other hand, the challenges that 4YOU2 was facing were overall comparable to those of any enterprise -being it social or traditional- in the same phase of the lifecycle. / A dissertação é um estudo de caso sobre a 4YOU2, uma empresa social brasileira: a proposta de valor dela é oferecer ensino de inglês de alta qualidade para pessoas menos favorecidas. A 4YOU2 foi fundada em 2012 e, em 2016, a companhia está na fase de crescimento e está enfrentando desafios para sustentar seu crescimento e impacto significativo, mantendo a oferta de alta qualidade e custo baixo. A coleta dos dados aconteceu no período entre o começo de Abril 2016 e o final de Junho 2016. As principais fontes de dados usadas foram entrevistas com os principais stakeholders e observações diretas. O objetivo do projeto é analisar, com uma perspectiva qualitativa, a natureza dos desafios que a 4YOU2 está enfrentando. Os resultados provam que o crescimento da 4YOU2 é apoiado por muitas vantagens competitivas, como a inovação e atratividade da oferta, o preço, as caraterísticas pessoais do fundador e as parcerias. Por outro lado, os desafios que a 4YOU2 está enfrentando são, no geral, comparáveis com aqueles de qualquer empresa –seja ela social ou tradicional- na mesma fase do ciclo de vida.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-01T19:18:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tatiane.pdf: 112566 bytes, checksum: 994319e8b88cb699ce281045ac1f4a2c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-12-19 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present work aims the analysis of the current context of the company Novociclo Ambiental SA, in order to verify the criteria which approach or move away from the Social Enterprise model and then to propose actions in order to fit the company in Social Enterprise. Therefore, it seeks for national and international literature for the theoretical framework necessary for the research development, making a historical and conceptual research of Sustainable Development, Corporate Social Responsibility, Third Sector and Solidarity Economy. Thus, it becomes possible to nderstand the context in which the Social Enterprise develops, with the approaches, diversity of concepts and characteristics that permeate the discussion and business practices. From the theoretical framework, for research purposes, it builds the operational concept of Social Enterprise that guide the study. Through a descriptive exploratory approach of qualitative research, we developed a single case study with the techniques of archival research and semi-structures interviews based upon ettigrew s contextualist data analysis method. The results shows that Novociclo company needs to go through a process of strategic decisions in order to define the basic strategy and, thus, the core activity of the organization so that it might investigate the possibility of construction of strategic change and the steps to be followed to do so. This study is expected to support and give conditions for the corporation to examine its feasibility and interest in becoming a Social Enterprise / O presente trabalho visa à análise do contexto atual da empresa Novociclo Ambiental SA, de forma a verificar os critérios que se aproximam ou se afastam do modelo de Empresa Social e com isto a proposição de ações em ordem a adequação da companhia em Empresa Social. Para tanto, busca-se na literatura nacional e internacional o arcabouço teórico necessário para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa, fazendo um resgate histórico e conceitual dos temas de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, Responsabilidade Social Corporativa, Terceiro Setor e Economia Solidária. Desta forma, torna-se possível a compreensão do contexto no qual a Empresa Social se desenvolve, apresentando as abordagens, diversidade de conceitos e características que permeiam a discussão e prática destes negócios. A partir do quadro teórico, para termos da pesquisa, é construído o conceito operacional de Empresa Social com requisitos de enquadramento que orientam a análise do estudo. Por meio de uma abordagem exploratório-descritiva de pesquisa qualitativa, desenvolveu-se um estudo de caso único com as técnicas de pesquisa documental e entrevistas semi-estruturadas sob a análise de dados de modo contextualista de Pettigrew. Os resultados mostram que a empresa Novociclo precisa passar por um processo de decisões estratégicas em ordem a definir a base estratégica e, com isto, a atividade-fim da organização para que então possa verificar a possibilidade de construção da mudança estratégica e os passos a serem seguidos para tanto. Com este estudo, espera-se dar suporte e condições para que a corporação possa analisar o seu interesse e a viabilidade em se transformar em uma Empresa Social

Submitted by Katharina Dragon (katha_dragon@gmx.de) on 2012-08-13T23:44:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MPGI_Masterthesis_KDragon.pdf: 3021035 bytes, checksum: 671c57a68ebdc531d41f445048fdd1c4 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Eliene Soares da Silva (eliene.silva@fgv.br) on 2012-08-14T15:14:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 MPGI_Masterthesis_KDragon.pdf: 3021035 bytes, checksum: 671c57a68ebdc531d41f445048fdd1c4 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-14T15:16:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 MPGI_Masterthesis_KDragon.pdf: 3021035 bytes, checksum: 671c57a68ebdc531d41f445048fdd1c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-08-03 / Empresas e organizações sociais têm um papel cada vez mais importante no mercado brasileiro. Essas organizações - sejam elas com ou sem fins lucrativos –têm como objetivocausar um profundo e positivo impacto social.Ambas enfrentamtambém o mesmo desafio: financiar as suas operações. Recentemente, dois modelos inovadores de financiamento, o fundo de venture capitalVox Capital e o fundo de empréstimo social SITAWI, entraram no mercado brasileiro para solucionar esse desafio. Este estudo analisa ambos os fundos,associando o problema do financiamento de empresas e organizações sociais às teorias tradicionais de negócio. Mais especificamente, por meio de um estudo de caso,é avaliado se o risco de agência (agency risk) explica as práticas e o designcontratual utilizados pelos fundos. A pesquisa é baseada num estudo de Alemany e Scarlata (2010) sobre a estruturação dos negócios de fundos filantrópicos de capital empreendedor (PhVC, na sigla em inglês) na América do Norte e na Europa. Uma definição chave desse estudo é que organizações sem fins lucrativos, ao contrário daquelas com fins lucrativos, estão sujeitas a uma restrição de distribuição de lucros. Embora Alemany e Scarlata (2010) tivessem descobertoque parceria (stewardship), mais do que o problema de agência (agency problem), explica a estrutura dos negócios dos fundos PhVC, as implicações do presente estudo de caso para o Brasil são diferentes. Os resultados sugerem que o problema de agência,mais do que a parceria,descreve adequadamente os contratos analisados de financiamento. Detectou-seque cláusulas contratuais não foram apenas usadas para mitigar o risco de agênciaresultanteda ausência de uma restrição de distribuição de lucros, mas também para reger as estruturas cooperativas com organizações sem fins lucrativos. No caso de SITAWI, a restrição dos destinatários de fundos de distribuir lucros provou-se uma ferramenta efetiva para alinhar os interesses entre os financiadores e os destinatários dos fundos. Apesar daimplicação da presença de parceria, os contratos do fundo social contiveram cláusulas geralmente usadas para reduzir o risco de agência. No caso de Vox Capital, os destinatários dos fundos eram empresas com fins lucrativos, portanto não sujeitas à restrição de distribuição de lucros. O modelo de negócio de Vox Capital é organizado para impedir qualquer incidência potencial do problema de agência. Ambos os fundos, independentemente da estrutura jurídica dos beneficiários destes fundos, evidenciaram o intuito de garantir a aplicação de práticas de negócio utilizadas pelas empresas tradicionais do setor corporativo em vez daquelas utilizadas no setor social.

Global Fashion, via the logic of high-speed, large-scale industrial production and anachronistic high-volume consumption habits, causes significant social and environmental damage. Local Fashion isunderstood as part of the Slow Fashion movement that aims to change the functions of fashion so that they support or lead the quest to flourish within known human and planetary boundaries.This Licentiate thesis examines, through an exploratory narrative based on new and existing research, two Local Fashionalities. Växbo Lin is a small linen manufacturer/brand in Hälsingland, Sweden, producing new heritage home textiles. WomenWeave is a handloom social enterprise inMadhya Pradesh, India, making naya khadi. Their approaches and practices are presented and discussed vis-à-vis notions of “globality”, “locality”, design management, and the quest for sustainability.The narrative aims to improve understandings of what Local Fashion is, and contribute to the effort to design new fashion systems grounded in logic relevant to contemporary human needs and aspirations.

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自工業革命以降，資本主義驅動著經濟與社會不斷前進，市場經濟所創造的交易效率幾乎滲透了人們生活的方方面面。但是使人類引以為傲的資本主義卻也創造了日益嚴重的貧富差距與自然環境的破壞，廠商犧牲了利害關係人的利益，極大化股東的利益，這促使我們開始思考是否有不同的方式可以同時創造合理的利潤，也同時善待組織的利害關係人？Fauchart 和 Gruber (2011) 所提出的使命型創業家很可能是一個新解，使命型創業家以改變社會為己任，期待藉由自身組織來改變社會與環境問題。然而，是什麼樣的原因促使使命型創業家出現？且使命型創業家是如何透過商業模式在使組織賺錢的同時增進利害關係人之效益？為了回答這個問題，本研究欲透過Shane (2000) 的前期經驗理論、使命型創業家之自我認同、利社會動機理論，與 Porter 和 Kramer (2011) 的共享價值理論來檢視個案公司。本研究選擇綠然能源作為研究個案，綠然能源是全台灣第一間由美國B Lab認證的B型企業 (B Corp)，成立已有四年的時間，且已經開始獲利，此外，綠然能源之共同創辦人再加入此事業前，皆擁有豐富的商業經驗與獨特對社會與環境的生命體驗。研究者透過質性研究方式，以半結構式訪談、實地觀察法和次級資料搜集進行研究，以探究前期經驗、自我認同與利社會動機對個案公司創辦人之影響，以及個案公司如何發展出具有共享價值之價值主張。最後本研究提出以下發現，使命型創業家之自我認同、利社會動機與前期經驗是其創業行為的核心，並且這將影響組織發展共享價值之價值主張，而團隊成員豐富的前期經驗也有助於組織辨識機會，發展具共享價值之商業模式。 / After Industrial Revolution, Capitalism drives human society and economy forward constantly. The efficiency that market economy creates, has almost penetrated into every level of our daily lives. However, the powerful Capitalism has also done severe damage to environment, enlarging the gap between the rich and the poor. These phenomena cause us to think is there any possible a firm can earn a reasonable profit and treat its stakeholders well at the same time? The research on missionary entrepreneur of Fauchart and Gruber (2011) may become a solution to the problem we are facing. The missionary entrepreneur considers contributing to a better world is critical to them and it is their responsibility to do act for the social & environmental cause. Yet what makes one become a missionary entrepreneur? And, how does missionary entrepreneur develop a business model to solve the social & environmental problem and make profit as well? To answer these questions, the study aims to analyze the case company with the prior knowledge theory of Shane (2000), the self-identity of missionary entrepreneur (Fauchart & Gruber, 2011), prosocial motivation, and creating shared value (Porter & Kramer, 2011). The study takes DOMI as the case company, because DOMI is the first one certified B Corp in Taiwan. 4 years after DOMI was founded, now the company has already made profit from its business. Additionally, the co-founders all have diverse and multiple business and entrepreneurial experience. Plus, all of them had unique experience of social & environmental problems. The research is done by qualitative research method, and the research data is collected through semi-structured interview, field observation and secondary data analysis. In the end, the study shows that diverse prior knowledge of organization members will help organization recognizes opportunity. Besides, prior knowledge, self-identity, and prosocial motivation influence the missionary entrepreneur behavior, which can also enhance organization to create shared value in its value proposition.

隨著經濟的快速成長，產生了各種社會問題，而為了解決這些社會問題，許多社會企業隨之出現，這些企業希望在改善社會問題的同時，能透過盈利的方式，使組織永續經營，而本研究欲探討社會企業如何取得資源，換言之，哪些因素會影響資源擁有者提供資源的意願。 本研究參考過去的文獻資料，整理出三項會影響社會企業獲取資源難易度的因子，分別為「社交連結」、「品質信號」與「說故事」，並透過個案研究的方式，透過深度訪談及次級資料的蒐集，探討各個因子是否對社會企業取得資源有所影響。研究結果顯示，在三項因子中，社會企業最常使用說故事的方法來獲取資源，最少透用釋放釋放品質信號，然而，若社會企業有一個很強的品質信號，便會被大量的使用。最後，社會企業若有好的故事，且主動聯絡，透過多樣化的媒體管道，也能更有效的吸引資源擁有者的注意，增加獲得資源機會。 / With the rapid development of economy, a variety of social problems have arisen. As a result, many social enterprises have emerged in order to solve these social problems. These enterprises attempt to help solve social problems and meanwhile, they want to make the enterprise sustainable by making profit. This study wants to explore how social enterprises acquire resources. In other words, this study examines the factors that will affect the willingness of resource owners to provide resources. Referring to past literature about how social enterprises acquire resources, this study categorizes them into three factors that may affect the accessibility of resources for social enterprises, which are “social ties”, “quality signals” and “storytelling.” This study uses the method of case study. Through in-depth interviews and secondary information, we examine how each factor may affect social enterprises acquiring resources. Results show that among the three factors, storytelling is being used the most often to obtain resources. On the other hand, quality signals are used the least often. However, if a social enterprise has a very strong quality signal, it will be widely used. Finally, if a social enterprise has a good story and takes initiative to contact media, it can attract more media attention. Through various media channels, more resource owners will have the chance to know this social enterprise; therefore, the chance of acquiring resources may increase.

This thesis deals with the reintegration of persons recovering from drug addiction and their return to the labour market. The reintegration model is chosen by social company, Café Therapy, one of the first social enterprises to focus specifically on the re-employment of individuals. The main goal of this work is to analyse how successful the company has been, in terms of social effectiveness and self-sufficiency and whether or not the funds invested return by way of the tax system. The objective is to evaluate the effectiveness of this particular social business. It also outlines the recommendations arising from the results of the findings. This work is mainly based on the theory of social exclusion, which can be defined as exclusion from social and economic way of life of society. Therefore, reintegration into society and the labour market is regarded as the main prerequisite to recovery. Concluding, attention is paid to active substance users and opportunities for clients to not only help themselves, but society as a whole.

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.