Opportunities for social enterprise in Germany — Evidence from an expert survey

Henning Engelke, Stefanie Mauksch, Inga-Lena Darkow and Heiko A. von der Gracht

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2015, vol. 90, issue PB, 635-646

Abstract: Today, governments and the public sector are increasingly confronted with a complex range of social problems, such as education deficiencies, old-age poverty, or unemployment. The private sector has started to address these challenges by offering innovative, sustainable, and efficient solutions to social needs. This article presents research results from an online Delphi survey conducted with 68 experts concerning the potential of social enterprise as a problem-solving tool for industrialized countries. Thereby, the survey compiled expert knowledge regarding the establishment of social enterprise in the future to provide a better understanding of which institutional and social structures will influence the development of social enterprise in industrialized countries. The scope of this research is Germany, but results are to some extent generalizable to other European Countries.

Keywords: Social enterprise; Social entrepreneurship; Social opportunities; Delphi; Futures studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.01.004

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