caa a22 4500 606152385 CHVBK 20210128100548.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11266-015-9584-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11266-015-9584-0 Lee Eun Department of Public Administration, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea aut Social Enterprise, Policy Entrepreneurs, and the Third Sector: The Case of South Korea [Elektronische Daten] [Eun Lee] The U.S. and the U.K. are considered as successful models of social enterprise. The Korean government benchmarked these two models in the hope of achieving similar success, without much avail. The growth of social enterprises in South Korea is attributed to the country's characteristically strong central government and its creation of relevant institutions and provision of support services. However, this paper provides an alternate explanation by highlighting role of the third sector as the ‘policy entrepreneur' in agenda-setting and policy implementation with regards to social enterprises in South Korea. Additionally, the decentralized local governments as well as the market structure dominated by big businesses are also examined as the main contributors to ‘policy windows' for the third sector's policy entrepreneurship. The paper showcases successful development of social enterprise despite the absence of a welfare state or a well-developed third sector, and argues that the phenomenon should hold numerous policy implications for other Asian countries. International Society for Third-Sector Research and The Johns Hopkins University, 2015 Social enterprise nationallicence Productive welfare nationallicence Policy entrepreneur nationallicence Third sector nationallicence South Korea nationallicence VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/4(2015-08-01), 1084-1099 0957-8765 26:4<1084 2015 26 11266 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9584-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-015-9584-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lee Eun Department of Public Administration, Korea University, Seoul, South Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 26/4(2015-08-01), 1084-1099 0957-8765 26:4<1084 2015 26 11266