한국의 사회적 기업에 관한 개괄적 검토

Abstract

A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental well-being, rather than maximizing profits for external shareholders. Social enterprises can be structured as a for-profit or non-profit, and may take the form of a co-operative, mutual organization, a disregarded entity, a social business, or a charity organization. Many commercial enterprises would consider themselves to have social objectives, but commitment to these objectives is motivated by the perception that such commitment will ultimately make the enterprise more financially valuable. Social enterprises differ in that, inversely, they do not aim to offer any benefit to their investors, except where they believe that doing so will ultimately further their capacity to realize their social and environmental goals. In korea, by the outline of Social enterprise of Social enterprise Promotion Agency, there were about 1,010 companies of Korean social enterprises certificated by the same agency and were about 950 companies of the companies operated as the social enterprise Until November, 2013. 1. Furthermore, the development of social enterprise has been started by the enact and the revision of related law on promotion of social enterprise in our countries at Jan. 2007. The same law is in force and the certification system was introduced in July after the time. Also, at the same time, the first social enterprise was came into our country and the 36 companies certificated by the Social Enterprise Promotion Agency. Common agreement was concluded for the growth of management activity of social enterprise among governmtn – enterprise – civic association in July 2008. The basic plan of the promotion of social enterprise was announced and the memorial day of the social enterprise enacted in November of the same year. Also, the pushing plan was announced for activating the social enterprise and the exhibition was opened in 2013. Specially, by the basic plan for promotion of social enterprise prepared for realizing the warm common group, the government has been proceeding the concrete policy task of four parts on the focus of growth on sustainable possibility of social enterprise and spreading the its value. 2. Therefore, in the first place, I will study on the operating present condition of several countries and inspect on the definition and system of social enterprise. In the next steps, I will generally exercise on the difference between the social enterprise and the company of related law in our country, the formation of the social enterprise, in case of formating the social enterprise, the difference on the applying to the related law in case of comparing with the corporate law.