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ALTERNATIVE APPROACH FOR EVALUATION OF INNOVATIONS: PURE AND COMBINED INNOVATIONS IN SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

KREJČÍ, Petra

Basic information

Original name

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH FOR EVALUATION OF INNOVATIONS: PURE AND COMBINED INNOVATIONS IN SOCIAL ENTERPRISES

Authors

Edition

Karviná, Proceedingsof11thInternational Scientific Conference "Karviná Ph.D. Conference on Business and Economics" p. 33-43, 10 pp. 2018

Publisher

Karviná: Silesian University

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Stať ve sborníku

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Publication form

printed version "print"

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Organization unit

School of Business Administration in Karvina

ISBN

978-80-7510-322-2

Keywords in English

Social enterprise, social innovation, social activities, pure innovation, combined innovation.

Tags

Reviewed
Změněno: 1/3/2021 19:07, Ing. Petra Krejčí, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The main goal of thispaper is to evaluate the currentsituation of innovative activities in social enterprises. A literature review ismade to reflectexisting researchfindingson relationship between innovativeactivities, social enterprises and social innovations. According those findings, two sets of innovations in social enterprisesis theoretically defined as group of pure and combined innovations. Each of these two mentioned groups consists ofsixinnovative areas to be presented and discussed. Every innovative area isdescribedby percentage share on whole group. The mainassessmentcondition is that the sum of all sixinnovative areas cannot exceed 100%. This paper focuseson the total amount of a pure, employee-focused innovation, becauseit isthe main research problem which solved in social enterprises.TheEvaluation is based on qualitative secondaryresearchdata of existing social enterprises in the Czech Republic. At the end of the paperpossibilities of further primary research in this areaare pointed out. This work was supported by the Silesian University in Opava, by the Student Grant System SGS/06/2018 “Economic Literacy of Business Entities”.