Social Entrepreneurship and Business Model Innovation
About the course
What you will learn
At the end of the course you should be able to reflect critically on the social business model your group will develop in this course. In particular you will be required to:
- Differentiate between social enterprise and social innovation mode and argue for selecting one mode as the basis for your group’s social business model.
- Describe the factors driving group work behavior and its performance outcomes in social business modeling and apply these to your group’s experiences.
- Contrast the hybrid strategies used to identify social business opportunities and formulate a strategy for how your group generates complementarities.
- Discuss different forms of impact investing and argue which are most appropriate for your social business model.
- Contrast different ways in which your social business model can be scaled up or replicated and determine the most appropriate choice.
- Evaluate the applicability of social impact assessment tools and evaluate how their use affects the performance of your social business model.