Social Entrepreneurship

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

The course consists of e-lectures and individual assignments on the e-learning platform. In the final seminar each student is asked to report on their learning based on the readings and the course themes will be discussed. Participation in the seminar is obligatory.

Learning Outcomes

In this course you will learn how to address social problems by employing entrepreneurial solutions. You will recognize how social entrepreneurship operates as a tool for forming and exploiting societal issue to create social change. After the course you will understand what social entrepreneurship means and how it compares to commercial entrepreneurship, and how social challenges can be addressed with entrepreneurial solutions. You will be able to identify the sources of different of social enterprises and their challenges, and compare social entrepreneurship with corporate social responsibility.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The literature will inform you about the different ways to understand social entrepreneurship. You will analyze and report the entrepreneurial qualities on one social enterprise of their choice, and how this enterprise has crafted a social problem into social enterprise. This will aid you to identify societally problematic issues and learn how to craft an entrepreneurial social venture to solve it. You will learn from corporate social responsibility and corporate philanthropy and compare them with social entrepreneurship.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Participation in the seminar is obligatory : 100.0%

Bibliography

Articles on the course themes

Handbook of research on social entrepreneurship / edited by Alain Fayolle, Harry Matlay. Fayolle, Alain. ; Matlay, Harry.

Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, cop. 2010. (E-book available).