Review article
https://doi.org/10.21857/yl4okf8p79
FRA BONO ZVONIMIR ŠAGI'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Marijan Cingula
Abstract
Social entrepreneurship can be seen as a more developed form of entrepreneurship
in which classic economic components such as risk and profit are supplemented
by social concern for the common good. In order to upgrade traditional
entrepreneurship to a higher level of social entrepreneurship, the entrepreneur's
responsibility needs to be increased, first of all in choosing the business activity,
and then also in the way the entrepreneurial venture is carried out. Also, social
support is indispensable, which consists in consciously entrusting a part of traditional
social activities to entrepreneurs. Regardless of the fact that entrepreneurs
carry out the assumed social activities on market principles, it is more important
that their investments in the social sphere free up scarce social resources to meet
some other needs that also achieve the common good. Social entrepreneurship
has its origins in the individual entrepreneur's concern for meeting socially beneficial
needs, and in addition to that, in social, i.e. state, support for these efforts. The
social influence on entrepreneurship can also be observed through the application
of ethical norms in business, where it is important to observe those norms that
derive from the social teachings of the Church. The author wants to show how the
Church's social teaching is fully aligned with the modern concept of social entrepreneurship,
which aims to standardize social responsibility in business activities.
The work is dedicated to the consideration of this topic in the works of Fra Bono
Zvonimir Sagi. He was not primarily engaged in the study of entrepreneurship, but
in his constant concern for the application of Christian principles in everyday life,
he recognized the importance of the social component in all social activities.
Keywords
Catholic ethics; social entrepreneurship; social responsibility; social teaching of the Church
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314110
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Publication date:
15.12.2023.
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