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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
A successful social enterprise in Hungary
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Department of Labour Market and Employment Policy, University of Miskolc, Hungary
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Department of Business Economics, University of Miskolc, Hungary
Submission date: 2022-05-11
Final revision date: 2022-05-29
Acceptance date: 2022-05-30
Online publication date: 2022-06-30
Publication date: 2022-06-30
Corresponding author
Katalin Lipták
Department of Labour Market and Employment Policy, University of Miskolc, Egyetemvaros, 3515, Miskolc, Hungary
Department of Labour Market and Employment Policy, University of Miskolc, Egyetemvaros, 3515, Miskolc, Hungary
Economic and Regional Studies 2022;15(2):220-236
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Subject and purpose of work: The aim of the study is to describe the development of the social economy sector, the emergence of social enterprises and the rationale for their establishment. Materials and methods: We interviewed Szimbiózis Foundation, a social enterprise that has been thriving in the Northern Hungary region for decades as one of the building blocks of the social economy. Results: The Szimbiózis Foundation has been operating as a social enterprise for 15 years and has consciously become a social enterprise. A fundamental problem for people with disabilities is that they do not have marketable occupations and their educational attainment is mostly low. The Foundation improved the ratio of skilled employees with a disability. Conclusions: The identified outputs have a number of measurable effects, such as reduction in the local unemployment, cost savings to society, improved quality of life for people with disabilities.
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