SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: ESSENCE AND FEATURES

Abstract

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.