SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A MECHANISM FOR SOLVING SOCIO-ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF PARTICIPANTS OF COMBAT OPERATIONS DURING THE PERIOD OF POST-WAR RECOVERY

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of social entrepreneurship as a mechanism for solving socio-economic problems of participants in the Russian-Ukrainian war, the development of entrepreneurial initiatives of war veterans in Ukraine. The scientific and theoretical and methodological basis of the scientific research was a set of general scientific, special and interdisciplinary methods, approaches, techniques and principles of scientific research. The purpose of the article is to determine the principles, factors and patterns of development of social entrepreneurship as an alternative to traditional forms of entrepreneurial activity. Clarification of positive external effects for society, in particular for solving socio-economic problems of participants in hostilities during the post-war recovery period and socio-economic results of social entrepreneurship, which provide additional prospects for the socio-economic development of society. The scientific article highlights the main features of social entrepreneurship as a direction of development of entrepreneurial initiatives of participants in the Russian-Ukrainian war, reveals modern trends in the functioning of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine, shows the prospects for the development of social entrepreneurship among participants in hostilities. Through the prism of the content of social business, the authors identified its key features, namely: social orientation, implementation of the principle of social responsibility, innovation, synergistic effect from the combination of the processes of professional adaptation of war veterans and the development of entrepreneurial initiatives of a social orientation. The authors also emphasized the obstacles to the development of social business among participants in the war, namely: problems of attracting financial resources, lack of knowledge and information in the process of starting a business, the problem of legislative consolidation of social entrepreneurship and veteran business. The article substantiates the historical continuity of the development of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine, namely, shows the historical sources of development in the domestic territories, so the elements of social business were an important component of entrepreneurial culture in the domestic economic environment of the past. In this aspect, we should remember the significant and fruitful achievements of the creation of social enterprises on the initiative and under the patronage of Metropolitan of the UGCC A. Sheptytsky, the socially-oriented family business of Ukrainian entrepreneurs Tereshchenko, Symyrenko, Khanenko, and the extremely extensive Ukrainian cooperative movement.