Q2. What are the future works in "Social enterprise and community resilience: examining a greek response to turbulent times" ?
Future research may extend and develop this approach through a focus on other regions suffering from crisis, be they economic, social, environmental or combined.
Q3. What did the social enterprises perform in the context of economic crisis and unemployment levels?
the social enterprises performed aspects of resilience in the context of economic crisis and increased unemployment levels:
Q4. What was the main reason for the lack of funding for social enterprises?
Whereas social enterprises were promoted as an antidote of the crisis, as replacements for public services they suffered directly from the chronic underfunding of the state.
Q5. What were the social enterprises scrutinised prior to the interviews?
The websites and social media of the social enterprises in the provinces were scrutinised prior to the interviews to explore the aim and objectives of the social enterprise.
Q6. What could be done to promote the development of a resilient and productive social enterprise ecosystem?
Changes at state level, such as amove of the social enterprise portfolio to the Ministry of Development, creation of social enterprise stakeholder feedback groups and networks that aim to deal explicitly with issues of community trust, and co-funding initiatives from the Greek Government and EU Structural Funds, could potentially promote the development of a resilient and productive social enterprise ecosystem.
Q7. Why did the majority of respondents feel they were driven to social enterprise out of necessity?
They were driven to social enterprise out of a necessity enforced by the crisis, but once they had taken on the role, social values appear to have been accepted and incorporated into personal narratives.
Q8. How many social enterprises were registered in the Greek provinces?
The two main metropolitan areas of Greece, Athens and Thessaloniki, hadattracted 425 and 131 social enterprises respectively, whilst the remaining 592 social enterprises were registered in the Greek provinces.
Q9. Why did the Greeks suffer from a lack of access to health and social services?
The lack of access in health and social services that rural communities often suffer from (Bosworth and Glasgow, 2012; Steiner and Atterton, 2015) was magnified in the Greek provinces due to the economic crisis and weakened public sector.
Q10. How many members are needed for a social enterprise to be legally created?
Law 4019/2011 defines that in order for a social enterprise of “collective and productive purposes” or “social care” to be legally created, five members (founders) are needed (seven members are the legal requirement, if the social enterprises belong to the category of social enterprises for integration).
Q11. What is the importance of an entrepreneur to community resilience?
Here the importance of an entrepreneur to community resilience becomes clear as their potential to support new equilibrium modes of resilience (both bounce-forward and evolutionary resilience).
Q12. What is the tension between the agency of the entrepreneur and the institutional structures that dictate whether such?
Here the tension lies between the agency of the entrepreneur and the institutional structures that dictate whether such entrepreneurial action can result in net gains of social value.