SOCIJALNA PREDUZEĆA I ULOGA ALTERNATIVNE EKONOMIJE U PROCESIMA EVROPSKIH INTEGRACIJA
SOCIAL ENTERPRISES AND THE ROLE OF THE ALTERNATIVE ECONOMY IN EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES

Author(s): Marija Parun Kolin, Nevena Petrušić
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Economy, National Economy, EU-Approach / EU-Accession / EU-Development, Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Evropski Pokret u Srbiji
Keywords: SOCIAL ENTERPRISES; ALTERNATIVE ECONOMY; EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESSES; Central and Eastern Europe
Summary/Abstract: The authors of the study quite correctly link the very beginning of the ideas and practices of social entrepreneurship to the period of the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, a time when in Europe, due to the rapid development of industrial capitalism, the traditional frameworks of agrarian-craft societies were collapsing, and sharp economic contrasts arose, accompanied by numerous forms of social pathology. Following the development of these enterprises, they state that with the strengthening of capitalism, especially with the penetration of ideas of state intervention and the politics of the ≪welfare state≫, social enterprises and similar types of social economy are almost completely forgotten. However, the reduction of trust in the state as an economic actor and the crisis of the welfare state in the mid-seventies of the last century created an environment for the reaffirmation of social entrepreneurship. It becomes an important part of the socio-economic structure, especially in the countries of the European Union. The transition processes in Central and Eastern Europe, in the last decades of the twentieth century, gave further impetus to its expansion.

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