Social entrepreneurship as a promoter of social development
International Journal of Development Research
Social entrepreneurship as a promoter of social development
Received 19th November, 2019; Received in revised form 26th December, 2019; Accepted 17th January, 2020; Published online 29th February, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Carla Spillere Busarelo and Melissa Watanabe. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The government, private institutions, and the third sector have difficulties to solving social problems that affect certain parts of the population. It was for this that social entrepreneurship was born, since it is a thematic that emerged from the empirical universe for the scientific universe. With the objective of analyzing the Bairro da Juventude social enterprise, from the theories of social entrepreneurship and local development, this study presents a case study, with information collected from in-depth interviews. The entity is a promoter of social transformation, due to the attention it provides for cases of social vulnerability. The results also showed that the team of managers is concerned with maintaining a solid, lean and objective organizational structure, where each sector is aware that the activity performed is crucial to maintain the quality and effective of the organization.