사회적 기업가정신 실천과정에 관한 연구

초록

Ever since social enterprise has been introduced in Korean society, our attention has been drawn to social entrepreneurship which is considered to be a critical success factor for a social enterprise. In order to understand the meaning of social entrepreneurship and how it has been practiced in Korea, the study employed a qualitative method focusing on social entrepreneurs' experiences. Four social entrepeneurs were selected as the research participants and in-depth interviews were conducted. The research participants shared their stories of how they started and operated their businesses and gave full description of the contextual factors. The research findings showed that social entrepreneurship was a practical action based on social value and a process which involved the following components: 1) discovering social problems; 2) turning the problems into opportunities with the creative ideas for solutions; 3) launching a social enterprise based on the effort to find the meaning of life; and 4) creating new values through generating social consensus. The study suggests that social entrepreneurship can be one of the alternative solutions for social problems so that it is important to recognize its dynamics and the contextual factors influencing social entrepreneurship.

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