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Applying Business Solutions to Social Problems: Social Co-Operative and Its Business Model – Evidence from Poland

Applying Business Solutions to Social Problems: Social Co-Operative and Its Business Model – Evidence from Poland
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Author(s): Martyna Wronka-Pośpiech (University of Economics in Katowice, Poland)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 26
Source title: Public Sector Entrepreneurship and the Integration of Innovative Business Models
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Mateusz Lewandowski (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)and Barbara Kożuch (Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2215-7.ch006

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Abstract

Although research on social entrepreneurship has been expanding in recent years, the literature regarding business models in the context of social enterprises is still limited. This chapter explores the issues of business models in both profit and nonprofit contexts and discusses how value, being both the foundation and the overall outcome of the business model employed, is created. It begins with the background on the characteristics of social enterprises. This is followed by the conceptualization of business models and their components designed to account for their unique. Then a case to illustrate it is presented. The objective of the chapter is twofold. First, it is to analyse how nonprofit business models are different from its for profit counterparts (at the conceptual level) and to introduce relevant analytical framework. Secondly, the chapter aims at providing a case based on the particular model of a social enterprise in Poland (social co-operative) in order to investigate whatever the business models for profit firms could be applied in the social enterprises.

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