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ORIGINAL ARTICLE
A successful social enterprise in Hungary
Katalin Lipták 1
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Klára Szűcsné Markovics 2
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Erika Horváthné Csolák 2
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Zoltán Musinszki 2
 
 
 
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Department of Labour Market and Employment Policy, University of Miskolc, Hungary
 
2
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
 
 
Economic and Regional Studies 2022;15(2):220–236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ers-2022-0015
 
 
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KEYWORDS
social economy
social enterprise
Northern Hungary
Szimbiózis Foundation
 
TOPICS
Labor and Human Capital
 
ABSTRACT
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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