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This paper attempts to identify sets of main factors affecting success of the operation of social enterprises being run at local level, using FSQCA, and to discuss the possibility that the research findings from QCA method could be applied to policy-making practices regarding social enterprise. The author employs FSQCA method, which was introduced to move beyond the qualitative and quantitative gap, to combine their strengths and to reduce the problems of either approach, to analyse the key elements associated with successful operation of social enterprises. Using FSQCA method, this paper constructed truth tables containing different kinds of configurations based upon the values of the dependent variable, per capita turnout. The research findings show that a set of variables explaining the successful operation of social enterprises has been derived. It is found that the causal condition for successful operation of social enterprise is that when social enterprise is located in city, when it runs service industry, when local government is strongly interested in supporting social enterprises within its jurisdiction, when the level of socially disadvantaged employees working for it is low, and finally when the population of the jurisdiction in which social enterprise is run is big.