Mbështetja e qeverisë për nxitjen e sipërmarrjes sociale në vendet ish-komuniste, mjet efektiv për realizimin e përgjegjshmërisë sociale
Government support for the promotion of social entrepreneurship in ex-communist countries, an effective tool for realizing social responsibility

Summary/Abstract: The radical nature and rapid pace of change in the former communist countries has unleashed new forces for both positive and negative change, particularly in the fields of economic growth and social development. New approaches to commerce and service delivery are thus forcing us to challenge some of our conventional theories on the state, society and the economy.This paper tackles the government’s role on finding ways to harmonize economic growth with social policies. While states struggle to take on the fiscal burden of supporting their most vulnerable citizens, societies such as Albania have paid witness to a dramatic growth in resources in a fledgling private sector. However, economic activity often operates in a binary rather detached and isolated from both public sector and civil society. The brutal and predatory individualism encountered in many enterprises is in sharp conflict with the social interests of the state and society at large. A shift in thinking on social policy foresees the emergence of a social capital approach to social exclusion. This approach involves the mobilization of the entire community-including business actors and civil society leaders-in tackling social exclusion and empowering disadvantaged members of society. The social business model, as developed in Albania in the creation of the Youth Albanian Parcel Service (YAPS), which employs exclusively disadvantaged youth, is an innovative example of new thinking on tackling social exclusion and reducing poverty. It promotes the novel concept of using efficiency and in-built sustainability of free markets to generate social wealth. Social business is beginning to be seen as relevant by the public sector and the not-for – profit sector as well as the private sector. As a matter of fact, people are looking for a clear lead and articulated objectives and priorities from the government. It is a general view, inherited from the past that government has a role in signposting organizations to tools and giving direct advice through business links. State has a range of possibilities to intervene, using different channels. It may play a triple role. These three roles are inextricably linked as they reflect the new political, social and economic order in which we live and secondly because they determine a new, post-communist relationship between citizen and state.

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