Social entrepreneurship from the perspective of the public in the Czech Republic

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship is an important area for fulfilling public benefit goals. However, this concept needs to be sufficiently reflected in society. The public's awareness of the concept of social entrepreneurship or their understanding of the concept is identified through a questionnaire survey. 1100 respondents took part in this survey. These respondents are representative by gender, age, education, country, region, and size of place of residence. The investigation focuses on the area of public benefit goals. Also, it includes identifying key disadvantaged groups of people in the labor market. The questionnaire survey confirms that work integration social enterprises are the most well-known type of social entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic. Also, it is discussed the most key positive and negative factors of social entrepreneurship from the public's point of view in this paper.