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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2022.20.4.031

Mission of Social Enterprises in South Korea -A Topic Modeling and Social Network Analysis-  

Lee, Sae-Mi (Center for Regional Development, Chonnam National University)
Byeon, Jang-Seop (Center for Regional Development, Chonnam National University)
Choi, Ji-Hye (Center for Regional Development, Chonnam National University)
Brown, Alan Dixon (Center for Regional Development, Chonnam National University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.20, no.4, 2022 , pp. 31-38 More about this Journal
Abstract
The study explores social enterprises' social goals by analysing their mission so as to better understand their perceptions of social problems. Based on the analysis, the study reconsiders the mission of the current era of the Korean social economy. Accordingly, self-disclosed social enterprise data were collected and analyzed using LDA topic modeling and social network analysis methods. Seven mission topics were extracted, and the network centering on key keywords was derived. The analysis results largely divided the social purposes of social enterprises into three categories: 'social purpose that social enterprises want to achieve', 'activities to achieve the purpose', and 'operation method to achieve the purpose'. The study is meaningful in that it emphasizes the importance of establishing and implementing social goals from the point of view of the social economy as well as realizing the economic value of social enterprises by analyzing their mission.
Keywords
Social Enterprises; Social Economy; Mission; Topic Modeling; Social Network Analysis;
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