THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEADERSHIP STYLE AND SUCCESS IN SOCIAL ENTERPRISES – EVIDENCE FROM POLAND
Abstract
The contemporary organisations, functioning in a turbulent environment, face the need to meet many complex requirements, which demands different way of managing an organisation. This also applies to leaders in the third sector, who face the challenge of realizing both economic and social mission. Therefore, in order to operate effectively, social enterprises are in the need of proper leadership, as the success of any organisation depends largely on the senior management. The aim of this article is to identify relationship between leadership style and perceived success in social enterprises. Using data from executives employed in 141 social enterprises (social cooperatives) in Poland key hypothesis is confirmed.
Keywords:
social entrepreneurship, social enterprise, success, leadershipDetails
- Issue
- Vol. 3 No. 18 (2016)
- Section
- Research article
- Published
- 2016-09-30
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.19253/reme.2016.03.001
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