Abstract:

The essay outlines today situation in social entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic. The aim of the paper is to analyse the incidence of social enterprises in the Czech Republic and analyse them based on chosen variables. We used quantitative approach with descriptive statistics, which describes social enterprises according to their distribution in Czech regions, date of establishment, legal form, activity of social enterprise, and frequency of offering indemnification. Main findings are that perception of social entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic is often narrowed down to issues of employment of handicapped or otherwise disadvantaged people. Most of social enterprises are registered in the capital city of Prague, South Moravia, Olomouc, and Moravia-Silesian region. Distribution of social enterprises in the Czech Republic is uneven and for instance in the Karlovy Vary region, social enterprises represented very poorly. Most social enterprises were founded between the years 2007 and 2013, focusing on business areas like gardening and cleaning services, food production, sales, and provision of accommodation and food services. The main contribution of the article is description of today situation of social entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic and its structure. The originality of the paper based on uniqueness of gaining and analysing data about social entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic.