THEORETICAL-METHODICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ROLE OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN ECONOMY

Abstract

Abstract. To disclose theoretical and methodological foundations and characterize the role of social entrepreneurship in the modern economy.
The article is devoted to the study of theoretical and methodological characteristics and to illuminating the general vision of the role, importance of social entrepreneurship in the development of economy and society. Theoretical approaches to the essence, qualification characteristics of the content of social entrepreneurship as the newest category of economic and social science are generalized and systematized, scientific approaches to defining its role as a socio-economic phenomenon are revealed. The essence of the definition of social entrepreneurship is characterized, a comparative assessment of the priorities of social entrepreneurship and its functions is compared with the classical entrepreneurial activity. A methodical assessment of social entrepreneurship as an organizational and economic phenomenon of the present is given, as well as a conceptual projection of its growing role in ensuring the sustainable development of the economy.
The research is based on dialectical methods of cognition of socio-economic processes and phenomena, methodological principles of analysis, on the basis of which scientific approaches to the definition of social entrepreneurship and its role in the development of modern economy are revealed.
Theoretical approaches to the essence, qualification characteristics of the content of social entrepreneurship as the newest category of economic and social science are generalized and systematized, scientific approaches to defining its role as a socio-economic phenomenon are revealed.
Scientific and methodological approaches to the problem of terminological qualification of the essence and importance of social entrepreneurship were further developed, and the author's theoretical position on the definition of the concept of "social entrepreneurship" was proposed.
Scientific understanding and methodical identification of the essence of social entrepreneurship is the basis for deepening theoretical and methodological studies of problems of diversification of spheres of entrepreneurial activity and enhancing its motivation to solve social problems of society.