The Polish Social Enterprise Sector Vis-à-Vis the Welfare Regime: Following on the Solidarity Movement?

What Features Distinguish the Rural Nongovernmental Organisations that Implement Social Innovations? Evidence from Postcommunist Poland

“…The aim of social cooperatives is to generate financial profits while pursuing social goals, such as solving social problems (Defourny & Nyssens, 2014;Baglioni, 2017;Macı ´as Ruano et al, 2021). Social cooperatives are thus enterprises that foster the social and professional reintegration of their members (Praszkier et al, 2017). While seeking opportunities to solve social problems, they can implement SI independently or in cooperation with other entities, including NGOs (5).…”

Towards negotiation: A RAMESES narrative review of social enterprise to support sustainability in Sport for Social Change (S4SC)

“…The legality of social enterprise is an additional concept to consider as an underpinning descriptor of context-based approaches. Is there a welcoming environment for social enterprise activity (Orhei, Vinke, & Nandram, 2014;Praszkier, Petrushak, Kacprzyk-Murawska, & Zabłocka, 2017)? For instance, recent policy reform has created a welcoming gateway for social entrepreneurship activity to generate new and innovative routes to employability in Italy.…”

Innovativeness of social economy entities in Poland. An empirical study from the perspective of Positive Organizational Scholarship

“…One cannot disagree that the activating approach is one of the most integral and basic "modernizations" of the welfare state in Europe (van Berkel, de Graaf, & Sirovatka, 2012). By definition, ASP serves as a remedy for ineffective paternalism and stimulation of dependence on state welfare characteristic of the "old" welfare state model (Praszkier, Petrushak, Kacprzyk-Murawska, & Zabłocka, 2017;van Berkel & Møller, 2002). Changes in the labor market policy, social security and transfer of benefits lead to such social policy in which: social policies and programs [are] aimed at promoting the (more or less obligatory) participation of people dependent on unemployment benefits or social assistance in work (van Berkel & Borghi, 2008, p. 333).…”

“…Nevertheless, examples of successful social economy enterprises operating in Poland suggest that a promising ground for improvement may be offered by theories combining innovativeness and positive interpersonal relationships in an organization. Those examples include, among others, the “U Pana Cogito” pension employing mentally disabled people, the “50+” social cooperative created by five physically disabled and unemployed women, the Barka Foundation that settles homeless people on abandoned farms, or the Social Integration Center in Gdansk implementing reintegration program in cooperation with the local unit of Ikea (Hrynkiewicz, ; Praszkier et al, ; Rymsza & Rymsza, ). The concept that combines the aforementioned ideas, that is, triggering innovativeness, with PRW is the POS.…”