The desirability of social entrepreneurship in the formation of social workers. entrepreneurs and social workers - agents of change

Florina-Loredana Demian and Adina Rebeleanu
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Florina-Loredana Demian: BabeÈ™-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Adina Rebeleanu: BabeÈ™-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research, 2018, vol. 16, issue 2, 56-67

Abstract: This article is an overview of the implications that social entrepreneurship practices have on optimizing the work of social workers. The paper tries to highlight the need to develop new skills useful in the development of the social work profession, but also in the development of the whole society. Starting from the study of the specialized literature, several objectives have been outlined which guided this research: identifying the difficulties faced by non-profit organizations in Cluj County, determining the level of knowledge about the term of social entrepreneurship and its specific activities, describing the specific activities of social entrepreneurship and analyze them on several dimensions specific to social entrepreneurship, identifying the skills and qualities of a social entrepreneur as an agent of social change. These objectives were achieved through an exploratory qualitative research. Data analysis revealed that social business and entrepreneurial initiatives are different from one organization to another, some nonprofit organizations sell handmade products at sales exhibitions, other organizations develop their own self-financing and fundraising mechanisms and other organizations lay the foundations of social enterprises, which aim at the socio-professional integration of their own beneficiaries of social services.

Keywords: social entrepreneurship; hybrid activities; social entrepreneur profile; social worker; entrepreneurial abilities; entrepreneurial skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L31 O35 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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