Empreendedorismo social em instituições sem fins lucrativos: o caso de uma associação na cidade de Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

This research has as main objective to analyze how social entrepreneurship is perceived by members of an association and raise the specific factors that characterize social entrepreneurship in a pool and collect the perceptions of members of an association in fortaleza/CE city of about characteristics of the social entrepreneur. The relevance of this issue is due to be addressed social entrepreneurship, where good ideas of entrepreneurs generate benefits not only to them, especially to society. Another relevant factor is the approach to the Third Sector, which has grown dramatically in recent years. The study started from the assumption that social entrepreneurship applies to associations and members of associations see themselves as social entrepreneurs. Was used as the basis for the theoretical framework as Dornelas authors and Tenorio and institutions such as Ashoka. The research methodology used a qualitative approach, the type of research as the purpose was exploratory and descriptive, since research on the means of the study, it is considered documentary , bibliographic , and a single case study . The results indicate that the general and specific objectives of the research were completed , fully confirming the established assumptions . In future research, we may indicate the need to administer the questionnaire in more than one institution, given that each has its peculiarities and the results can be improved from the confrontation of the data.