This research is a case study to clear the successful factors of Social Enterprise in Jeonnam province.
It's aimed at understanding the exact essence of Social Enterprise through the conception and historical consideration about them, and it goes ...
This research is a case study to clear the successful factors of Social Enterprise in Jeonnam province.
It's aimed at understanding the exact essence of Social Enterprise through the conception and historical consideration about them, and it goes further and researched sustainable Social Enterprise model and primary factors for success through a precedent study. To cover them, I defined the factors for sustainable Social Enterprise as following 6 categories in accordance with inductive way: ① strategical factor, ② Social Enterpriser mind, ③ capacity for management, ④ systematic factor, ⑤ business circumstance, ⑥ social network, and then took 3 depth interview. The result is like below the text.
First, strategical factor is to select types of business. It's the most important part for not only Enterprise for profit but also Social Enterprise for sustainable growth. However, it has been decided by public support, and its strategy has been established expanding business items to manufacturing industry for its independence.
Second, Social Enterpriser mind is considered as competent leader's leadership and devoted effort. The case enterprises on this research can be done as having a high public good tendency because they began as a Non-profit organization or social organization, and it needs effort to get better profit results.
Third, capacity for management. Management experience turned out to be helpful to manage undertaking operation, and management professionalism proved to be low level. Nevertheless, it has good fellowship like family on managing professions. Social Enterprise is not aggressive about pushing ahead with the project which has risk.
Fourth, When it comes to systematic factor of Social Enterprise, It has good flexibility to cope with its change of the inner and outer circumstance related to the organization. Furthermore, it has professionals for each enterprise part, and good atmosphere for smooth conversation between superior and subordinate, and between each department. However, lack of marketing professional is the problem.
Fifth, business circumstance of the Social Enterprise. It maintained its organization through public support at the early stage of the business. Moreover, it has tried to expand its operation to manufacturing industry for self-support. Low recognition of the Social Enterprise is one of the obstacles to market.
Sixth. In social network part, it shows us there is not enough co-operation with being related organizations. To overcome poor business circumstance, co-operation with them and support from them are essential.
The result of this research shows us that following these steps need to precede widely through government and Social Enterprise level for its sustainable development. Considering the character of it growing by a local society as a base of the development, selecting the types of business must be chosen after specific analyzing and verifying, and quality of the services and products provided from it are not inferior to ones made by enterprise for profit, and also it has to make efforts to change recognition of the society : consumption of the Social Enterprise's product is a mature spending. Support from the government should be provided not for just increasing immediate job vacancy, but being able to stand up for itself. It is required to establish connecting the system between it and related organizations to use local resources efficiently.