Companies whose aim is to make a productive activity of goods or services in market operations to ensure a paid job for people with disabilities. A sheltered employment centre has to have at least 70% of its workers are disabled people (with an official certification of disability degree higher than 33%) in order to get the official certification and receive public financial aids.
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Social Entrepreneurship in Sheltered Employment Centers: A Case Study of Business Success
Vera Gelashvili (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Eva Aguilar (Centro De Estudios Financieros -Cunef, Spain), María-Jesús Segovia-Vargas (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), Maria-Del-Mar Camacho-Miñano (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain), and María Teresa Blanco Hernández (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain)
Copyright: © 2016
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0097-1.ch021
Abstract
Sheltered Employment Centers (CEE) are part of the social economy companies, based on the primacy of people over capital, social benefits and solidarity. Its aim is to carry out productive work and they are a means of integration of the greatest possible number of disabled people. There is a growing interest in this type of business, because its number has increased considerably. The objective of this chapter is to give academic visibility to CEE due to its great contribution to the social corporate responsibility, and to encourage the so-called social entrepreneurship. The reasons for creating social firms are analyzed and the characteristics that can contribute to the success of this type of companies are studied. Using the case study methodology, a CEE is analyzed in depth showing the main features of social economy business by means of a specific case and the key variables that has conducted to its success.