Social Entrepreneurship

Paper Code: 
MIV 127
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (COs):

 

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

On    completion   of    this        course, the students will be able to:

 

CO 37: Understand social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship practice.

CO 38: Enumerate the Scope for social responsibilities in business

CO 39: Illustrate the successful social entpreneurship set ups in India and understanding entrepreneurial opportunities.

CO 40: Discover the social entrepreneurship opportunities for successful enterprise creation

CO 41: Outline the categories of social enterprise and its role in supporting social Entrepreneurship.

CO 42: Differentiate between different types of social enterprise.

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: 
Social Entrepreneurship:

Introduction, Meaning, difference between business and social entrepreneurship, perspective of social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship in practice, boundaries of social entrepreneurship.

12.00
Unit II: 
Social responsibilities of business:

Concept, dimensions of social responsibilities, social responsibilities reporting, social accounting, approaches of social accounting and reporting, social audit, social responsibilities of business in India.

12.00
Unit III: 
Opportunities For Social Entrepreneurs -

Methods of sensing opportunities and fields of opportunities, assessing and prioritizing opportunities, enterprise launching and its procedures –start-ups –incubation –accessing venture capital –CSR funds –PPP

12.00
Unit IV: 
Social Enterprise Context:

Hybrid Spectrum, Dual Value Creation, Financial Strategy,
Program Strategy.

12.00
Unit V: 
Social Enterprise Classification:

Mission orientation, Business/Program integration,
Target Market, Operational Models, Social Enterprise Structures.

Essential Readings: 

*Case studies related to entire topics are to be taught.

ESSENTIAL READINGS:

• Khanka, S.S, Entrepreneurial development, S. Chand & Company Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi.
• 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.

References: 

SUGGESTED READINGS:
• 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,

E-RESOURCES:
• Social Responsibilities of Business https://egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/12318/1/Unit-3.pdf
• The four lenses Strategic Framework http://www.4lenses.org/setypology/models

JOURNALS:
• Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies
• Business Perspectives and Research

ACADEMIC YEAR: 
2022-2023
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