Open AccessNEW MOTIVES AND MODELS FOR CREATION SOCIAL BUSINESS IN THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS
Author(s) -
Stasė Navasaitienė,
Marharyta Vishniakova,
Rasa Rukuižienė
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
management theory and studies for rural business and infrastructure development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2345-0355
pISSN - 1822-6760
DOI - 10.15544/mts.2016.32
Subject(s) - social entrepreneurship , entrepreneurship , profiling (computer programming) , public relations , empirical research , marketing , the republic , social business , sociology , business , political science , finance , philosophy , epistemology , computer science , operating system , theology
The article presents the overview of the approaches and models, which are important in determinationof social entrepreneurship driving forces. The research problem is arised for getting more wide viewabout activities and motivation issues of social entrepreneurs in the Republic of Belarus. The research aimsto examine the individual features and motives of social entrepreneurs in profile of their personality relatedto appropriate business models for social entrepreneurship development. The broad and narrow approachesare used to get an answer about the perspectives of social entrepreneurship in this country.The objectives of research are arised as follow:1) define approaches of social entrepreneurs‘ for individual profiling;2) describe the motives of entrepreneurs to start activities for social business;3) highlight the business models of social enterprises‘ establishment.The methods of research: monographic, descriptive and meta-analysis of scientific literature.As well as the analysis of the empirical data is produced by in-depth interviews with the heads of organizationsand enterprises engaged in social entrepreneurship in the Republic of Belarus (in-depthinterviews were conducted in the period from 15th August to 15th November 2015, and 10 experts were involved).The key findings of research: marked a „broad“ and „narrow“ approaches for higlighting the profileof social entrepreneurs; approved the consequences that social entrepreneurs are high motivated and biasedtowards achieving socially beneficial purposes rather than material well-being; identified the circumstancesabout the existance of individual and organizational models for establishment social enterprises.