Social Businesses-The Main Actors In The Process Of Sustainable Community Development

Social enterprise means an organization which aims principally to ensure/providing the welfare of the community, created at the initiative of a group of citizens and where the interests of those who invested capital are limited. It is an independent organization which assumes economic risks, arising from economic activity conducted and involves various actors interested in the community in management. A social enterprise works as a company, it produces the goods and services they offer on the market, but it conducts operations and redirects the surplus in order to achieve goals social, cultural or environmental protection goals. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that social enterprises can be components of sustainable community development. Support this premise is to identify the coordinates of the theoretical concept of social enterprise, the criteria to be satisfied by a society that can be classified in this category, identify the legal framework underlying the establishment and development of social enterprises as well as the identification of all the legal forms can be a social enterprise.