RT Journal Article
T1 Performance Evaluation of Sheltered Workshops. Does Legal Status Matter?
A1 López Penabad, Celia
A1 Maside Sanfiz, José Manuel
A1 Torrelles Manent, Juan
A1 López Andión, María del Carmen
K1 Disadvantaged employees
K1 Performance
K1 Social enterprise
K1 Sheltered workshops
K1 DEA
AB Social enterprise pursues both social and economic goals and is recognized as a formula for achieving sustainable development. Sheltered workshops (SWs) are a manifestation of this phenomenon, their main objective being the labor market integration of disabled people. In this paper, the efficiency of SWs has been studied taking into account the operational and the core social aspects, as well as their distinct nature, namely for-profit or non-profit status. Additionally, we have analyzed the relationship between the social efficiency and the economic returns of these entities. To do this, a semiparametric methodology, combining different data envelopment analysis (DEA) models with truncated regression estimation has been used. It is the non-profit and top-performing SWs that achieve the best social and economic efficiency. For-profit and low-performing SWs show further reductions in social efficiency as a result of the economic crisis and uncertainty in subsidy-related public policies. Their extensive social proactiveness and high economic strength in the crisis period positively influenced their social and economic efficiency. We have also proven that it is the most profitable SWs that have the greatest social efficiency. We consider that our results constitute a useful complement to other evaluation models for social enterprise
PB MDPI
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24460
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/24460
LA eng
NO Sustainability 2021, 13(3), 1100; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13031100
NO We gratefully acknowledge financial support provided by the Consellería de Cultura, Educación e Universidade (Xunta de Galicia) with reference ED431C 2020/18, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF/FEDER) within the period 2020–2023
DS Minerva
RD 28 abr 2026