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SEM 645

Social Entrepreneurship

3 units

Winter 2022

Topics

  • Why Social Entrepreneurship? Textbook: Understanding Social Entrepreneurship
  • What is Social Entrepreneurship? Textbook: Understanding Social Entrepreneurship
  • Recognizing Social Opportunities
  • Design Thinking & The Lean Start- Textbook: Understanding Social Entrepreneurship
  • Developing a strategic plan. Interviewing. Pitching
  • Organization Structure/ Models of Social Entrepreneurship
  • Funding Social Ventures
  • Measuring Social Impact
  • Scaling Social Ventures
  • Social intrapreneurs
  • Alternative approaches to social entrepreneurship 7 : Indigenous Entrepreneurship & Business as Mission
  • Ecosystems, hybridity &
  • Presentations

Readings

  • Alter, S.K. 2006. “Social Enterprise Models and Their Mission and Money Relationships”. In: Nicholls, A. (Ed.) Social Entrepreneurship: New Models of Sustainable Social Change: Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 205-232
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  • # Date Topic Readings Main activities Deliverables Optional (to be confirmed) “Social Venture Finance” by Golden, Hewitt, Lewkowitz, McBane & Torjman, MaRS White Paper Series, 2009
    recommended
  • Ebrahim, A. and V.K. Rangan. 2014. "What Impact? A (submit via e- Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social class before class Performance." California Management Review 56, no. 3 begins). (Spring 2014): 118–141. Class Case: Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (A) participation survey Optional
    recommended
  • Kramer, M. R. (2005). Measuring Innovation: Evaluation in the Field of Social Entrepreneurship, pp.8-28
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  • Sawhill, J. C. & Williamson, D. (2001). Mission impossible? Measuring success in non-profit organizations. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 11(3), pp. 371-386
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  • Westley, F., Antadze, N., Riddell, D. J., Robinson, K., &
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  • Geobey, S. (2014). Five Configurations for Scaling Up Social Innovation: Case Examples of Nonprofit Organizations From Canada. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 50(3), 234
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  • Meyerson, D. E. (2004). The tempered radicals: How employees push their companies – little by little – to be more socially responsible. Stanford Social Innovation Review, Fall, pp.14-23
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  • Cochran, P. L. (2007). The evolution of corporate social responsibility. Business Horizons, 50, pp. 449-454
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