Social Entrepreneurship

Note: The course "Social Entrepreneurship" will NOT take place in the summer semester 2022 due to a research sabbatical of Prof. Lea Cassar.

Bachelor, Study Phase?2
Summer Term
Lecture and Tutorial
Teaching/ Working Language: English

Aware that English is probably not the native language of the participants, possible language barriers are benevolently / indulgently taken into account. I look forward to welcoming many students who wish to take up this challenge.

Outline

Social change is no longer a domain reserved to public and charitable organizations. An increasing number of firms and businesses are taking up the challenge of solving the world’s most pressing social problems. This course will cover a selected set of topics associated with social innovation and social entrepreneurship whether nonprofit or for-profit, such as:

some general background information to understand the recent rise of social enterprises;
develop and test a start-up idea;
plan a social enterprise;
launch and scale a social enterprise;
psychological biases as an obstacle to social change;
impact evaluation methods;
non-monetary incentives and HRM in social enterprises

The course is meant to be highly interactive. Students will be provided with many case studies that will be discussed together in class.? In the tutorials, they will be asked to work in groups and develop an idea for a social enterprise. Several practitioners will b