Social Entrepreneurship

Paper Code: 
MIV 127
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Objective: 

Objective: Paper has been designed such that it acquaints the students with the knowledge of Social Entrepreneurship including the scope and social entrepreneurial set up in India.

 

Course outcomes: On completion of this paper/course students will-

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

PAPER CODE

Paper Title

MIV 127

Social Entrepreneurship

 

CO 37: Understand social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial opportunities.

 CO 38 : Analyze culture, models and approaches of social entrepreneurship

CO 39:   Enumerate the  Scope for social Entrepreneurship in India

CO 40:    Illustrate the successful social entpreneurship set ups in India.

 

CO 41:   Outline the role of Government and various support organizations in encouraging and supporting social Entrepreneurship.

 

CO 42: Discover out the  social entrepreneurship opportunities for  successful enterprise creation

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures using whiteboards, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration, Team teaching, Quiz.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Solving problems of unsolved questions, Problem based learning-cases, Group learning teamwork, Giving Tasks.

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects
 

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Social entrepreneur–factors impacting transformation into social entrepreneur, characteristics of social entrepreneurs, four distinctions of social entrepreneurship

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Profit and non-profit Proprietorships –partnership –company, Non-Governmental organisation -Society –Trust and Company (sec. 25) registration, Factors determining selection of forms of registration

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Opportunities For Social Entrepreneurs -Methods of sensing opportunities and fields of opportunities, assessing and prioritising opportunities, enterprise launching and its procedures –start-ups –incubation –accessing venture capital –CSR funds –PPP

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Designing Organizational Structure of MNCs:

Steps in designing Organisational Structure

Types of Organisational Structures in MNCs (Vertical & Horizontal)

Approaches to Organisational Structure of MNCs

Product organization structure, Geographical organization structure, Decentralized Business Divisions, Strategic Business Units, Matrix Organisational Structure

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Successful Social Entrepreneurship Initiatives - Study of successful models like Grameen Bank –Aravind Eye Care System’s –LEDeG –TERI –Pasumai Payanam, Siruthuli –SEWA –Amul –Evidence from OASiS, Case Study on SELCO, case study on Annapurna–Goonj

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Bide Amar (2012), Entrepreneurship determinants: culture and capabilities, 12thEdition, Euro Stat, European Union, http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
  • Dinanath Kaushik (2013)Studies in Indian Entrepreneurship, New Delhi, Cyber Tech Publications
  • Gopalkrishnan (2014) The Entrepreneur’s Choice: Cases on Family Business in India, New Delh, Routledge taylor& Francis Group.
  • Kaliyamoorthy and Chandrasekhar (Eds:2007), Entrepreneurial Training: Theory and Practice, New Delhi,

 

ACADEMIC YEAR: 
2021-2022
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