Social Entrepreneurship as a Form of Cross-Border Cooperation: Complementarity in EU Border Regions
| Autor: | Herman T. Wevers, Frank de Langen, Cosmina Lelia Voinea |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Department of Strategic Management, RS-Research Line Innovation (part of LIRS program), RS-Research Program Learning and Innovation in Resilient systems (LIRS) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Geography
Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies TJ807-830 Social entrepreneurship 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 Eu countries Renewable energy sources local embeddedness MECHANISMS cross-border cooperation 0502 economics and business GE1-350 European commission Economic geography WORK Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Corporate governance 05 social sciences ENTERPRISE 021107 urban & regional planning Complementarity (physics) Cross-border cooperation Environmental sciences social capital social entrepreneurship institutional EU Business INTEGRATION 050203 business & management Social capital |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, 12(20):8463. Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 20 T. Wevers, H, Voinea, C L & de Langen, F H T 2020, ' Social Entrepreneurship as a Form of Cross-Border Cooperation : Complementarity in EU Border Regions ', Sustainability, vol. 12, no. 20, 8463 . https://doi.org/10.3390/su12208463 Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 8463, p 8463 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | EU border regions continue to face economic and social disadvantages compared to other regions in the same country. Since 1990, the European Commission has been implementing extensive territorial cooperation programs to support EU border regions in solving regional problems and building social cohesion. This study offers a contribution for decreasing the economic and social disadvantages of EU border regions by investigating the complementarity between institutional EU cross-border cooperation and social entrepreneurship. We argue that both concepts build upon similar drivers and characteristics with the aim of creating impact and bringing about change. We test and improve our initially literature-based framework to provide a better insight into how institutional and entrepreneurial processes could benefit from each other. We conduct interviews with experts operating at different governance levels and in various EU countries and border regions. The complementarity between both concepts is confirmed considering a differentiation between governance levels and fields of expertise. The results show that complementarity between the concepts mainly exists in terms of taking advantage of opportunities for a certain effect. The commercial activities of social enterprises are seen as effective, but it is necessary for social enterprises to establish sustainable EU cross-border cooperation and to improve regional social and economic development. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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