The paper deals with investigating analysis that reveals the efficiency of financial support received by social enterprises. Recently, this specific type of enterprise has been gaining more and more ...interest among managers and scientists. Some of them even noted that the social enterprise can be considered as a business of the future. Nevertheless, the key to the successful functioning on the market and development of this kind of enterprises is the financial support. One of the sources of obtaining financial support by social enterprises are public funds from EU assistance programs. However, these funds should be used effectively, because they are public property and therefore belong to all citizens (taxpayers). Therefore, in addition to the formal requirements set out in individual European Union aid actions focusing mainly on social goals, a traditional approach to assessing the efficiency of investments focusing on the business goals of the capital donor is also needed. Thus, the purpose of the study was to assess the efficiency of financial support granted to social enterprises. Efficiency was examined in a traditional way as the ratio of financial benefits obtained by the state thanks to granting support in relation to the financial costs spent on this support. The subject of the study consisted of 22 social enterprises of various forms (social cooperatives, associations, foundations) from the Warmian-Mazurian region, which received financial support in 2017-2018. The results show that a significant amount of money invested by the state to help in the formation and functioning of social enterprises is returned to the state budget.
This study delves into a bibliometric analysis of ChatGPT, an AI tool adept at analysing and generating text, highlighting its influence in the realm of social sciences. By harnessing data from the ...Scopus database, a total of 814 relevant publications were selected and scrutinised through VOSviewer, focusing on elements such as co-citations, keywords and international collaborations. The objective is to unearth prevailing trends and knowledge gaps in scholarly discourse regarding ChatGPT’s application in social sciences. Concentrating on articles from the year 2023, this analysis underscores the rapid evolution of this research domain, reflecting the ongoing digital transformation of society. This study presents a broad thematic picture of the analysed works, indicating a diversity of perspectives—from ethical and technological to sociological—regarding the implementation of ChatGPT in the fields of social sciences. This reveals an interest in various aspects of using ChatGPT, which may suggest a certain openness of the educational sector to adopting new technologies in the teaching process. These observations make a contribution to the field of social sciences, suggesting potential directions for future research, policy or practice, especially in less represented areas such as the socio-legal implications of AI, advocating for a multidisciplinary approach.
Social enterprises today are a worldwide phenomenon that has had a major impact on local communities and societies. Apart from pursuing their mission within the market, social enterprises are closely ...linked through scientific theories with the concept of sustainable development. In practice, they are linked with pursuing so-called sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations in 2015. It is a universal call to action to end poverty. One of the ways of fighting against poverty is providing people excluded from the labor market with decent jobs. It is one of the main aims of many social enterprises. The aim of this paper is to identify internal and external conditions influencing the functioning and development of social enterprises operating in the Warmia and Mazury region, which is underdeveloped according to the EU taxonomy. This paper used survey research conducted among social enterprises in the region of Warmia and Mazury. In the context of sustainable development as a concept, this paper identifies the scale of influence of the analyzed social enterprises on restoring people who are professionally excluded into the labor market. This paper indicates that not only financial and legal issues limit the development of social enterprises, but also elements such as the insufficient number of people willing to do social work or the level of creativity of the employed staff. It has been established that among analyzed enterprises, the level of received support is associated with the number of created workplaces, but it is not connected with gained income, nor is the volume of employment within the analyzed social enterprises correlated with gained income.
The paper assesses how revenue diversification of the public benefit organizations (which are important part of the polish third sector) is associated with the organizations size (measured by the ...total year reveneus). The study covered all public benefit organizations (it was almost 8,000 organizations - their number varied depending on the year), which operated in 2015-2017. The results obtained indicate that there is a statistically significant relationship between the diversification of revenues and the size of the organization. The analysis included, in particular, commercial sources of reveneus, which prove the pro-entrepreneurial attitude of the surveyed organizations and the ability to operate on a competitive market. Results also indicate that revenue diversification through the use of commercial earning sources has a positive effect on the overall volume of annual revenue generated. It can therefore be concluded that the diversification of revenue sources is better for Polish public benefit organizations (PBOs) than concentration on one source. Univariate descriptive statistics associated with frequency distributions, including percentages and means, and statistical tests (including the chi-square independence tests and Kruskal – Wallis tests) were used to verify the hypotheses.
Nonprofit organisations, operating in various fields and fulfilling diverse functions, play a significant role in civil society. One of the specific types of nonprofit organisations are public ...benefit organisations. Therefore, the aim of the research presented in this article is to identify the revenue generation mechanisms used by public benefit organisations operating in the area of national security (i.e., public order and safety, national defense and the activity of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Poland, and rescue systems and protection of residents). As part of the research procedure, financial and substantive reports of public benefit organisations, as well as their websites, were analyzed. The research identified the sources of revenue for public benefit organisations, as well as the degree of diversification of the revenue generation mechanisms in the online environment. The article demonstrates that a greater number of the revenue generation mechanisms utilized by public benefit organisations is accompanied by an increase in revenue. Moreover, organisations that obtain more money from private sources also use a larger number of revenue generation mechanisms in the online environment.
Wykorzystanie Twittera w działalności organizacji pożytku publicznego Oliński, Marian; Szamrowski, Piotr
Polityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing/Zeszyty Naukowe Szkoły Głównej Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie. Polityki Europejskie, Finanse i Marketing,
07/2018
19(68)
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
Open access
Twitter oferuje bogaty zestaw narzędzi do budowy dialogu i interakcji z interesariuszem organizacji. Głównym celem badań była identyfikacja skali wykorzystania Twittera przez organizacje pożytku ...publicznego oraz ustalenie związku między wybranymi cechami organizacji pożytku publicznego, a częstotliwością wykorzystania w działalności tego serwisu mediów społecznościowych. Uzyskane rezultaty wskazują, że Twitter w polskich organizacjach pożytku publicznego ma znaczenie niewielkie. Badane organizacje cechuje duże zróżnicowanie pod względem aktywności publikacyjnej na Twitterze. Jednocześnie, organizacje aktywnie publikujące treści na Twitterze, również dużą aktywność przejawiają w wykorzystaniu innych serwisów social media. W celu identyfikacji związków pomiędzy analizowanymi zmiennymi wykorzystano analizę opartą na standardowych parametrach oraz badanie zależności wybranych zmiennych (test niezależności chi-kwadrat oraz współczynnik kontyngencji C).
Obecny zasięg i znaczenie Internetu, daje ponadprzeciętne możliwości, odnośnie budowania relacji między interesariuszami a organizacjami non-profit. Dlatego celem niniejszego artykułu jest ...identyfikacja sposobu, w jaki organizacje pożytku publicznego (OPP) wykorzystują witryny internetowe do budowy potencjału dialogowego z jej użytkownikami. Z przeprowadzonych badań wynika (łącznie przebadano 367 organizacji pożytku publicznego), iż OPP w niewielkim stopniu wykorzystują tzw. pięć zasad w budowie potencjału dialogowego witryny internetowej (zwłaszcza w odniesieniu do elementów bezpośrednio tworzących potencjał dialogowy witryny internetowej). Wyraźnie brakuje także świadomości u osób odpowiedzialnych za podejmowanie decyzji w organizacjach pożytku publicznego, jak ważną rolę odgrywa obecnie public relations w budowaniu relacji oraz w jaki sposób można w tym celu skutecznie wykorzystać Internet. W niniejszym artykule wykorzystano metodę analizy publikowanych treści, stanowiącą jeden z głównych typów tzw. analizy zawartości (content analysis).
The beginning of the 21st century brought a change in the approach to public relations (PR). Both the literature and the practice saw a shift in focus from evaluating the efficiency of communication ...strategies to relationship management. On the other hand, the growing interest in the use of social media in the management of many types of organizations has prompted researchers to seek the theoretical causes of this trend. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to examine the scope of the Polish public benefit organizations’ (PBO) use of the social network Facebook in managing relationships with stakeholders. The PBO is a specific form of non-profit organization, which enjoys the special privilege of collecting tax-deductible donations of 1% of personal income tax (PIT). The research covered 876 entities, which were divided into four clusters depending on their size. A database of posts was created that the organizations published in the period selected for the research. Then, the impact of the Facebook content on user engagement was analyzed. For this purpose, various statistical methods were used, i.e. descriptive statistics, statistical tests and multiple regression analysis. The results indicate that, in spite of social media’s unquestionable advantages, public benefit organizations only take advantage of a small proportion of this potential. The role of the most popular service, Facebook, in increasing organizational revenue from 1% of PIT deductions seems secondary at best. Apart from that, the results showed that the rates of posting by different Polish public benefit organizations vary widely. Although some organizations were very active in this aspect, the Facebook pages of many organizations remained completely inactive throughout the analysis or showed only minimal activity. Larger organizations exhibited a much greater posting activity than their smaller counterparts.
In the future managers will have to take into account in their everyday decision-making processes the values promoted by corporate social responsibility. Apart from the consideration of the problems ...related to the market, profitability, sources of financing, etc. much attention will have to be paid to economic, social and ecological results of business activities, so to the ideas that form the foundations of the concept of corporate social responsibility. However, if businesses are to apply any new concept, method or management technique, it is necessary to familiarize themselves with it first. Therefore, the objective of the present research is the identification of the degree of the awareness of CSR concepts, their scope and the frequency of socially-responsible behaviours displayed among economic entities representing the warmińsko-mazurski region. The research objective was presented in the form of a question: Are companies operating in the warmińsko-mazurski region aware of the existence of the concepts of corporate social responsibility and do they understand them? In the light of the above objective the following research hypothesis was formulated: Entrepreneurs and employees of companies operating in the warmińsko-mazurskie province are familiarised with CSR concepts but to a small degree only and activities undertaken by them in this scope are usually of a temporary character and do not contribute to building the image of socially-responsible businesses. The studies were diagnostic and the research method applied was a diagnostic survey based on the developed questionnaire.
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