The master's thesis positions social enterprises in Slovenia within the typology of social enterprise models developed by Jacques Defourny and Marthe Nyssens, which has been applied in comparative research on social entrepreneurship worldwide. The typology is based on the classification of organizations according to a combination of three core dimensions: the types of economic resources they mobilize, the nature of their social mission, and their governance structures. Based on these dimensions, four main models are defined: the Entrepreneurial Non-Profit model (ENP), the Social Cooperative model (SC), the Social Business model (SB), and the Public-Sector Social Enterprise model (PSE).The research includes both social enterprises formally recognized under Slovenian legislation and those that meet the operational definition of social enterprises according to the EMES network, which emphasizes social objectives, participatory governance, and economic activity. The empirical analysis is based on secondary data derived from publicly accessible registries of legal entities. It provides insight into the characteristics of the Slovenian social enterprise landscape and examines how different types of organizations – in addition to those with official social enterprise status, also non-governmental organizations in the public interest, cooperatives, employment centers, enterprises for people with disabilities, sheltered workshops, training and care institutions, and special social welfare institutions – are distributed across the various models of the typology.
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