A description of the Minor in Social Entrepreneurship and Not-for-profit Management

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Prerequisite/progression of the course

Please click on the following link for an overview of the minor from the department offering it: www.cbs.dk/s_ent

Aim of the course

The “Minor in Social Entrepreneurship and Not-for-Profit Management” is offered by the CBS Cand Merc programme. The not-for-profit sector is increasingly recognized as needing staff trained in management skills in order to drive social change. The resulting new discipline is often referred to as Social Entrepreneurship (S-ENT). This minor intends to equip students with the instruments needed to develop earned-income strategies for charities and to launch social enterprises, as well as to manage humanitarian and not-for-profit organisations more generally.

Demand:

An increasing number of students have in recent years expressed interest in teaching offers related to the not-for-profit sector. As a response individual electives have sprung up at CBS. The S-ENT minor now offers students to prepare themselves in a more focussed way for the not-for-profit job market.

Course content, structure and teaching

State-of-Literature

The social entrepreneurship literature is interested in the simultaneous maximization of public goods for societal purposes through the increasing use of business like practices and entrepreneurial spirit (Peter C. Brinckerhoff, 2000; J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, & Peter Economy, 2001; William Drayton, 2002; Muhammad Yunus, 2006). Social entrepreneurs and their organizations are described as capable of maximizing social value while at the same time applying traditional businesses methods. Recently a more scholarly analysis of the field has followed (Lars Hulgard, 2006; Linda Lundgaard Andersen, Lars Hulgard, & Lise Bisballe, 2008; Johanna Mair, Jeff Robinson, & Kai Hockerts, 2006; A. Nicholls, 2006; C. Steyaert & D. Hjorth, 2006). Topics of interest here have been in particular the characteristics of social entrepreneurs (PC Light, 2006; Johanna Mair & Ernesto Noboa, 2006; Craig Mayberry, 2006) and the sources of social opportunities (B. Cohen & M. I. Winn, 2007; Kai Hockerts, 2006; Stefan Schaltegger & Markus Wagner, 2008).

Timing

The S-ENT Minor is scheduled for the 3rd semester (autumn).

Qualification for the Minor Certificate

In order to receive the minor certificate students will have to take three elective classes totaling 22.5 ECTS.

S-ENT Minor Courses:

CM.K72 - Social Entrepreneurship
CM.V82 - Sustainable innovation Camp
CM.J28 - Business Plan Writing for Social Enterprises

Recommended literature

Brinckerhoff, P. C. 2000. Social Entrepreneurship : The Art of Mission-Based Venture Development. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Cohen, B. & Winn, M. I. 2007. Market imperfections, opportunity and sustainable entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing, 22(1): 29-49.
Dees, J. G., Emerson, J., & Economy, P. 2001. Enterprising Nonprofits: A Toolkit for Social Entrepreneurs. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Drayton, W. 2002. The Citizen Sector: Becoming as Entrepreneurial and Competitive as Business. California Management Review, 44(3): 120-132.
Hockerts, K. 2006. Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Social Purpose Business Ventures. In J. Mair & J. Robertson & K. N. Hockerts (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship, Vol. 1: Palgrave MacMillan.
Hulgard, L. (Ed.). 2006. Social Enterpreneurship and the mobilization of social capital in European social enterprises: a public-third sector partnership London: Routledge, p. 85-109.
Light, P. 2006. Searching for social entrepreneurs: Who they might be, where they might be found, what they do. Research on Social Entrepreneurship: Understanding and Contributing to an Emerging Field.
Lundgaard Andersen, L., Hulgard, L., & Bisballe, L. 2008. Socialt Entreprenorskab i Danmark: et aktuelt signalement. In L. Lundgaard Andersen & L. Hulgard (Eds.), Socialt Entrepreneurskab - et aktuelt signalement: CSE arsreport 2008. Roskilde: RUC.
Mair, J. & Noboa, E. 2006. Chapter 8: Social Entrepreneurship: How Intentions to Create a Social Venture Get Formed. In J. Mair & J. Robinson & K. N. Hockerts (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Mair, J., Robinson, J., & Hockerts, K. (Eds.). 2006. Social Entrepreneurship. (Vol. 1). New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Mayberry, C. 2006. Social Entrepreneurs: Is it a New Breed of Entrepreneur?
Nicholls, A. 2006. Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change: Oxford University Press, USA.
Schaltegger, S. & Wagner, M. 2008. Types of sustainable entrepreneurship and conditions sustainability innovation: from administration of a technical challenge to the management entrepreneurial opportunity. In R. Wüstenhagen & J. Hamschmidt & S. Sharma & M. Starik (Eds.), Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Steyaert, C. & Hjorth, D. 2006. Entrepreneurship as Social Change a Third New Movements in Entrepreneurship Book: Elgar.
Yunus, M. 2006. Social Business Entrepreneurs are the Solution, Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, 29-31 March 2006. Oxford University: Said Business School.