Abstract

Social enterprises are hybrid organizations established for a social purpose, using a for-profit business model to generate the financial resources needed to support their social missions (Miles et al., 2014: 549).” Examples of social enterprises include a church bookstore where the proceeds are used to fund community engagement or Zambrero's … For more content click the Read More button below.

Syllabus

Fundamental tools of social entrepreneurship, including: opportunity recognition, assessment and exploitation to solve social problems, effectuation and effectual leadership, risk leveraging, innovation, proactive behavior, and value creation for the community and its stakeholders.The community entrepreneurial ecosystem, including: the elements of a community’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, the community capital framework, and leveraging … For more content click the Read More button below.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
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be able to critically analyse, evaluate and transform information about the fundamental tools of entrepreneurship;
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be able to analyse, generate and transmit solutions to community resilience and leadership development issues through mapping the elements and relationships of a community's entrepreneurial ecosystem using a community capital framework; and
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be able to transmit knowledge, skills, and ideas to community stakeholders on how to leverage the community's entrepreneurial ecosystem to support those generating solutions to community problems.