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Présentation
Good comprehension of English. Good knowledge of business, management, and economics concept.
The aims of the course include:
- To develop systematic knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship, and of the rationale, purposes and practices of traditional and social enterprises in different contexts.
- To immerse students into main entrepreneurship theories as well as presenting theories of organization in terms of their application to social enterprises.
- To offer opportunities to look at entrepreneurship in detail from different perspectives and to learn about essential tools to launch a venture, mixing theoretical concepts with creative thinking.
- To encourage students to adopt a critical and reflexive approach to understanding entrepreneurship and social enterprise.
- To examine ethical, critical and social issues that arise during the practice of managing enterprises.
LEARNING OUTCOMES- At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- To compare and contrast entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship concepts, terms, and organizational forms.
- To summarize and theorize the contribution of social enterprises to social and economic change.
- To craft a solid and viable business model:
- To explain and apply the entrepreneurial decision-making process (going from a problem to an opportunity).
- To assess the feasibility of an idea as well as the relevance of an entrepreneurial project.
- To develop an industry and market analysis.
- To assess the funding and financial environment for entrepreneurial projects.
- To develop professional skills to contribute to strategic decisions regarding organizational development in one or more entrepreneurial contexts.
- Conceptualization of entrepreneurship.
- Conceptualization of social enterprises: schools of thoughts, institutional logics, hybridization.
- What makes an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur? (Psychological Traits, Planned Behavior, Self-efficacy, etc.)
- Entrepreneurial characteristics and contexts (Ability, Risk, Personal characteristics, Context).
- Social Impact (Measuring impact, Green and social washing).
- Planning and starting up an entrepreneurial project (From idea to opportunity, feasibility, business model, industry and market analysis, entrepreneurial funding and finance).
Modalités
The teaching methods used in this course include lectures, case studies, and group assignments. Students are required to constructively and actively participate in both class and group discussions.
Students will develop an entrepreneurial project with an environmental and/or social goal.
- Lectures: 15h
- Entrepreneurial Proect: 15h
- Overall teaching: 30h
- Personal work: 60h
- Overall student workload: 90h
Assessment
- Group project: 40%, ongoing, due last course
- Group pitch: 20%, due last course
- Final exam: 40%, 1h
TOTAL: 100%
Ressources
<b>Essential Reading: </b>|| <ul> <li>Barringer B.R. & Ireland R.D. (2019) Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures, 6th edition, Pearson Education Limited</li> <li>Chahine, T. (2016). Introduction to social entrepreneurship (First Edition). CRC Press. https://www.routledge.com/Introduction-to-Social-Entrepreneurship/Chahine/p/book/9781498717045</li> <li>Greene Francis J. (2020). Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (First Edition). Macmillan Education.</li> <li>Kickul, J., & Lyons, T. S. (2016). Understanding social entrepreneurship: The relentless pursuit of mission in an ever-changing world. 2nd Edition, New York, NY: Routledge.</li> </ul> || <b>Supplemental Reading: </b>|| <ul> <li>Doh, J.P., Tashman, P., & Benischke, M.H. (2020) Adapting to Grand Environmental Challenges Through Collective Entrepreneurship, Academy of Management Perspectives, 33(4), https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2017.0056</li> <li>Fischer, D., Brettel, M. & Mauer, R. (2020) The Three Dimensions of Sustainability: A Delicate Balancing Act for Entrepreneurs Made More Complex by Stakeholder Expectations. Journal of Business Ethics 163, 87–106 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-018-4012-1</li> <li>Haugh, H. (2012). The importance of theory in social enterprise research. Social Enterprise Journal, 8(1), 7–15. doi:10.1108/17508611211226557</li> <li>Rawhouser, H., Cummings, M., & Newbert, S. (2017). Social impact measurement: Current approaches and future directions for social entrepreneurship research. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, I-34. doi: 10.1177/1042258717727718</li> <li>Spivack, A. J., & McKelvie, A. (2018). Entrepreneurship addiction: Shedding light on the manifestation of the "Dark side" in work-behavior patterns. Academy of Management Learning and Education, 17(3), 358-378. https://doi.org/10.5465/amp.2016.0185</li> <li>Tonoyan, V., Strohmeyer, R., & Jennings, J. E. (2020). Gender Gaps in Perceived Start-up Ease: Implications of Sex-based Labor Market Segregation for Entrepreneurship across 22 European Countries. Administrative Science Quarterly, 65(1), 181–225. https://doi.org/10.1177/0001839219835867</li> <li>Yunus, M. (2007). Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. New York, NY: PublicAffairs.</li> </ul> <b> </b>