Abstract
The authors of the contribution based their research on the theoretical concept of the resource-based theory. This theory was used in long-term research of social enterprises, which were implemented with the utilization of the international methodology.
Resource-based theory is working with the three assumptions. 1. It depends on the social context. 2.
Organizations develop strategies that help them keep their autonomy and objectives. 3. Power is important for understanding why organizations were acting in certain ways.
Social enterprises are relatively new economic entities in the Czech Republic. They are private and in their activities they follow not only economic but also social and environmental goal.
Social enterprises are partly commercial companies, cooperatives and also some of the non-state non-profit organizations. Using the methodology of the European international research company EMES authors of the paper came to the conclusion that in social enterprises is used a combination of financial resources; and that the motivation for social entrepreneurship in nongovernmental, non-profit organizations is the possibility to generate own resources.
It confirmed the resource-based theory in particular, provided that the custom funding helps to maintain the autonomy and can influence the behaviour of the organization.