The Korea Local Administration Review

In recent years, community development scholars and practitioners payattention to mobilizing social economy of which social enterprises make apivotal role according to changing public administration environments andincreasing new social needs. Social enterprises contribute to meeting new socialneeds that the traditional problem solving institutions including government andmarkets could not properly address. Asset-based community development(ABCD) perspective indicates that mobilizing community assets such asindividuals, institutions and places of local community is critical elements forthe development and performance achievement of social enterprises. This studyintroduces theoretical backgrounds and debates on ABCD perspective andanalyzes empirical data in order to identify the relationship betweenperformance and mobilization of community assets. The implication of the studysuggests that an in-depth research on ABCD model are important and variouspractical tools to mobilize community assets should be developed for thecreation of sustainable local communities in Korea.
□ Keywords: Social Enterprise, Social Economy, Asset-based CommunityDevelopment, Community Development, Performance