Identificación de los Modelos de Sutia Kim Alter en las Empresas Sociales de la Ciudad de Loja, 2015.

Abstract

In Ecuador there is not enough data and information about social enterprises consequently this job has the purpose of identifying the models of social enterprises suggested by Sutia Kim Alter that are used in the enterprises of Loja. This thesis is constructed from a contrast of concepts of social enterprise and social entrepreneurship according to the schools of thought from the United States and European research. By using research techniques as observation, interviews and polls on companies in Loja were discovered a group of the existing social enterprises. It was found that social enterprises work through the embedded model and some operational business models as entrepreneur support model, employment model and fee for service model. Besides it employees can’t recognize if the company works on any model of social enterprise but they know that the enterprise works on enterprise social responsibility