Social Entrepreneurship Development: Regional Aspect

Abstract

Entrepreneurial activity has been recently influenced by many negative and often unforeseen factors, which, unfortunately, are not always successfully overcome. However, the number of small and medium-sized businesses in the Russian Federation is steadily growing. Entrepreneurs demonstrate their flexibility, adaptability and social responsibility by maintaining and creating new jobs, charity, and import substitution. Positive dynamics is also observed in the field of social entrepreneurship. It is this sector that plays the key role in solving the problems of the social sphere in the Russian Federation today. Despite negative trends business activity of social enterprises remains at a fairly high level. Taking into account the current trends and tasks set for social business, it is necessary to support the existing directions and develop new tools for the development of social entrepreneurship, primarily in the regions. The purpose of the article is to develop directions of social enterprises development in the future based on the prevailing conditions of their functioning in the regions. The study demonstrates the trends in the development of social entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation, and analyzes the indicators in the regional context. Using the example of the Sakhalin region, the state of social business in the region was assessed and the directions of its further development are determined.