Incentives for social sustainability of the third sector in Lithuania

Abstract

Built on European social cohesion policy mainstream, this paper reveals incentives of Third sector players’ active involvement into economic growth in Lithuania. Emerging role of social enterprises needs a scientific focus on social economy categorisation in terms of opening a stage for scientific debates around sustainable development of non-governmental sector in Lithuania. The paper discusses themes, such as social economy recognition, inter-sectoral boundaries, social economy partnership and other factors of social sustainability.