社会企业,是一种介于公益与营利之间的企业形态,是社会公益与市场经济有机结合的产物,具有市场竞争性和公益性兼备的混合特征。从本质上讲,社会企业不是非营利组织,它具有企业的一般属性,但不同于一般企业,它所追求的不是单纯意义上的经济效益最大化,而是追求经济效益与社会效益的平衡 Social enterprise is a kind of enterprise form between public welfare and profit-making. It is the product of organic combination of social public welfare and market economy, and has a mixture of market competition and public welfare. In essence, the social enterprise is not a non-profit organization. It has the general properties of the enterprise. However, unlike the general enterprise, it pursues not the maximization of economic benefits in a pure sense but the pursuit of the balance between economic and social benefits