Social entrepreneurship and vulnerable groups

Abstract

This article is a brief incursion in the vast and controversial field of the social entrepreneurship as form of social economy, analysing its potential to improve the inclusion of the vulnerable groups on the labour market. Far from claiming to explain a complex phenomenon such as the social entrepreneurship, the text below presents the social entrepreneurship and its particularities, the forms of social exclusion from the labour market and their specificity from the angle of the vulnerable groups. The end of the article is dedicated to the analysis of the peculiarities of the vulnerable groups’ participation on the labour market and of the role which the social entrepreneurship has in facilitating their integration on the labour market.