Identifying Internationalisation Profiles of Social Entrepreneurs Utilising Multidimensional Statistical Analysis

Abstract

In this paper, internationalisation of social enterprises is examined with multidimensional statistical methods: a correspondence analysis and cluster analyses. The results show that (1) organisations that sell products operate as social enterprises or business enterprises, while those that provide a solution for free tend to operate as charities or associations; (2) entities providing a solution for free tend to operate in several markets and transfer knowledge and goods; (3) organisations that help to start a new business work as charities, associations, foundations; (4) organisations that help in running an existing business tend to operate as social or business enterprises.

Keywords:

• Social enterprises
• internationalisation
• cluster analysis
• multidimensional correspondence analysis

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Faculty of Management, and Bialystok University of Technology in Bialystok, Faculty of Engineering Management, and Polish Economic Institute in Warsaw.

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