Entrepreneurship and Social enterprise
Etablissement : Faculté de Gestion, Economie & Sciences Masters
Langue : Anglais
Formation(s) dans laquelle/lesquelles le cours apparait :
- Aucune formation en lien avec ce cours.
Période : S1
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).
