The Role of Management Skills in Social Entrepreneurship: Expert Assessment

Abstract

Social entrepreneurship is a paradigm that can be seen as one of the solutions to reduce poverty, migration, depopulation and retention of the working population in Bulgaria.The aim of the article is to analyze the role of management skills and the training needs as a difference between the current and desired state of knowledge, skills and qualifications of business advisors to provide the necessary consulting services to social intermediaries and social enterprises. Professional profiles of social business consultants are presented on the basis of published job requirements in organizations providing business consulting to social enterprises and by some organizations outside the country due to the poor development of these activities at national level.Business advisors usually provide financial and strategic advice to small and mid-sized companies, cooperatives, social enterprises and other formats of company formations.

Challenges faced by youth social entrepreneurs in Malaysia: career transition to become a social entrepreneur

“…Those interested in social entrepreneurship should have a foundation in entrepreneurial skills so that their social enterprises can be successful. According to Hessels et al (2008), every entrepreneur needs to have entrepreneurial skills (Bencheva and Stoeva, 2019) if they want to change the world (Thompson et al , 2017).…”

Implementation of National and Regional Policies for Development of Social Entrepreneurship in Bulgaria

“…These are individuals with specific expertise acquired through personal experiences and exper-tise in social exclusion. The initiative aims to build on existing best practice in Europe to tackle social exclusion by introducing a qualitatively different approach to working with vulnerable groups by creating a profession "expert by experience" (Terziyev, 2019;Terziev, Bencheva, 2019а;Bencheva, Stoeva, Todorova, 2018;Bencheva, Tepavicharova, 2016;Tepavicharova, Bencheva, 2016а;Bogdanova, 2018a;Terziev, 2019b-c;Terziev, Bekiarova, Georgiev, 2019d;Bencheva, Stoeva, 2019e).…”

Social Entrepreneurship: Social Enterprises and Their Markets in Bulgaria

“…Social enterprises in the health sector achieve the desired social impact or limit its sphere of activity to the extent permitted, without the need for special registration under the Hospitals act or register as a separate company or a cooperative in accordance with legal requirements. Unfortunately, the Bulgarian legislator has not provided the opportunity the legal form of medical institutions to NGOs, which actually deters many organizations -social enterprises to offer integrated health and social services for vulnerable groups (Terziyev, 2019;Terziev, Bencheva, 2019а;Bencheva, Stoeva, Todorova, 2018;Bencheva, Tepavicharova, 2016;Tepavicharova, Bencheva, 2016а;Bogdanova, 2018a;Terziev, 2019b-c;Terziev, Bekiarova, Georgiev, 2019d;Bencheva, Stoeva, 2019e;Stoeva, 2016b-c;Arabska, 2016d;Ovcharova, 2017-a).…”