Russian Federation
The article reveals the essence and characteristics of social entrepreneurship based on a review of theoretical developments in the foreign and domestic science for the identification and isolation of business functions in a comparative analysis of the social enterprise. Such characteristics of social entrepreneurship are marked as socially responsible risk, social transformation through the implementation of social innovations, focus on the target group — people who are in difficult life situation. Social enterprise functions are allocated: creating social value, through the involvement of the target group in business; innovation; altruism.
entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, services, social innovation, altruism
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