The efficiency as a challenge of work insertion social enterprises

Abstract

In recent years the Spanish Work Integration Social Enterprises have achieved both legal recognition as a dramatic growth, and also a major stakeholder’s implication and the resources employed in these businesses within the economy, in particular the Social Economy. In this area and even though descriptive and normative level; the studies about social integration companies have increased; however, there is little research focused on the management of such entities. In this paper we have analyzed the factors involved in the efficient management of integration enterprises from a dual perspective, managers and promoters entities, and Administration. In the first case we have identified some factors that probably improve the efficiency in business management, in the second case, we have defined some characteristics that favor cost-benefit ratio of such entities for the administration, and consequently for the Society. The methods used in this research are analytic-synthetic, hypothetic-deductive, and cost-benefit analysis, complementary to each other.