The article is devoted to the study of subjects engaged in social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is considered by the author in two senses, in a broad sense, as an activity aimed at solving social problems and assuming the possibility of extracting profit/income. In this approach, the subjects of social entrepreneurship relations include social enterprises and non-profit organizations. A narrow understanding of social entrepreneurship is shown in the Federal law “on the development of small and medium-sized businesses” and refers to the subjects of social entrepreneurship only social enterprises. The author examines the features of the status of a social enterprise and focuses on the difficulties of distinguishing the activities of social enterprises and non-profit organizations. It is noted that social entrepreneurs carry out entrepreneurial activities, which means that initially this activity is aimed at systematic profit-making, and the qualitative feature that distinguishes it from other types of entrepreneurship is that it is aimed at achieving socially useful goals. In Russian law, there is a well-established type of legal entity with a variety of organizational and legal forms that could meet the needs of the state and take on a social mission. This role could well be handled by non-profit organizations, which are created for this purpose and have the right to carry out entrepreneurial/ income-generating activities. The design of a social enterprise duplicates the existing ones developed in the domestic law of NPOs, does not clarify their relationship and is in some way far-fetched. Numerous problems of legal regulation of non-profit organizations are investigated. The question of attributing environmental entrepreneurship to social entrepreneurship is raised. According to the author, the exclusion of environmental entrepreneurship from social entrepreneurship has deprived environmental entrepreneurs of the possibility to rely on the guarantees provided to social entrepreneurs in the form of ensuring the availability of infrastructure, financial, property, consulting and methodological other.

entrepreneurial activity, social entrepreneurship, social enterprises, non-profit organizations, environmental entrepreneurship

Filatova Uliana Borisovna – Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Associate Professor, Professor of the Department of Civil Law, Law Institute, Irkutsk State University (1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation), e-mail: filatova.uljana82@gmail.com

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