Journey from a Humanitarian NGO to a Social Enterprise in Malta

This paper, via field observations and interviews, explores the implications of running a small scale non-governmental organisation in Malta whose intention it is to establish a social business despite the absence of social business-friendly laws in the national legal system.

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Journal

Title: ScienceOpen Preprints

Publisher: ScienceOpen

Publication date (Electronic preprint): 30 November 2020

Affiliations

[1 ] University of Malta

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Harald Breikss https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1447-8438

Article

DOI: 10.14293/S2199-1006.1.SOR-.PPZUMS7.v1

SO-VID: 5c481ca9-e7da-4c5d-9432-93bfdac1f0db

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Date received : 30 November 2020

Data availability: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article (and its supplementary information files).

ScienceOpen disciplines: Social & Behavioral Sciences,Law,Economics

Keywords: social,business,law,society,Malta,fieldwork,refugee,NGO,time,anthropology