The core difference between public welfare and business lies in the core appeal in entrepreneurship and the fundamental internal drive of entrepreneurs. Generally speaking, commercial entrepreneurship emphasizes the pursuit of profit maximization by realizing customers' needs, while public entrepreneurship emphasizes the integration of various social resources and the exploration of solutions to social problems that cannot be solved temporarily under market failure and government failure (government is powerless and enterprises are powerful and unintentional).
The so-called public entrepreneurship is a process in which social organizations (enterprises, non-profit organizations, etc.) participate. ) creatively integrate social value and economic value in the operation process.
Public welfare organizations can be subdivided into three branches. Non-profit organizations, such as One Foundation, Du Nan and other charitable foundations, Xintu Health Promotion Center and porcelain dolls, mainly rely on social donations and special funds for their income, and charge a certain fee for providing social services for the needy people and community residents.
However, we still need to rely on externally funded non-profit organizations (a large number of emerging non-profit organizations in China are mostly like this), social enterprises that completely realize self-hematopoiesis and solve social problems by market means, such as small loans from the Disabled Friends Association and Fuping School.
In recent ten years, social entrepreneurship came into being in response to social needs, and it has been continuously developed abroad, and the concept of mass entrepreneurship has quickly appeared in people's field of vision. However, it is not easy to define the concept of "public entrepreneurship".
Academic circles have not yet reached a * * understanding of "commonweal entrepreneurship", but generally speaking, the core connotation of this concept abroad mainly includes two aspects: one is that non-profit organizations adopt creative business operation mode to enhance their social value, and the other is that enterprises enhance their value by creatively meeting social needs. In short, the so-called public entrepreneurship is a process in which social organizations (enterprises, non-profit organizations, etc.) participate. ) creatively integrate social value and economic value in the operation process.