Developing Social Entrepreneurship Models in Russian Legal and Socioeconomic Context

Abstract

The paper examines the national peculiarities of social entrepreneurship in Russian Federation. It is shown that the current developments of social entrepreneurship models are mainly affected and driven by the State and the corporations. Leading by these drivers, social entrepreneurship in modern Russia is developing as a particular kind of business operating in "semiofficial" way, where the "socio-entrepreneurial" mission can be used by different legal forms of both individual entrepreneurs/commercial organizations and NGO’s.