Characteristics Of Social Enterprise

Social enterprise has flourished in recent years, and social entrepreneurship is transforming people in different parts of the world. The primary goal of the social enterprise is non-profit, and it continued use business and innovative approach to creating value for the community organization. For China, the social enterprise is still a new thing, only a few people in recent years have been understood the social entrepreneur, no matter from theory, law or practice, China is in the embryonic stage, also need a lot of efforts to develop and research.First, the background of social enterprises ' development and research factions
The causes of social enterprises ' rise, mainly from market failure，government failure and voluntary failure theory. …show more content…
De found, chairman of the European Social Enterprise Research Network, points out that social enterprises have economic and social characteristics. Regarding economic characteristics, social enterprises have the characteristics of sustainable production of goods and marketing services, the high degree of autonomy, significant economic risks, and the number of paid employees as little as possible. Social enterprises have an explicit purpose of benefiting the community; a group of citizens initiates it; the decision-making power it holds is not based on capital ownership; it participates in the participation of all affected by the project; Limited profit distribution or asset lock-in. Prof. Dees explained the attributes and characteristics of social enterprise organization from the perspective of social enterprise organizational form. He argued that the concept of social enterprise should be placed in the background of the non-profit organization, and social enterprise as a diversified and mixed entity, objectives. Social enterprise is considered as a continuum between pure charity (the non-profit organization) and pure profit (private