Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship

GJU
Spring 2017
Instructor- Ibtesam Al-Atiyat
Email: ibtesam.atiyat@gmail.com

Course description

This course is a general introduction to social entrepreneurship, an emerging field that lies
at the intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and social change. As an emerging
discipline, social entrepreneurship is a new arena that requires academic and practitioner
cooperation, as it lies at the intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and social
change.

The course will expose students to theory regarding entrepreneurship, models of social
change, definitions of social entrepreneur and social entrepreneurship, management skills
required for social entrepreneurial organizations, scaling of social impact, and impact
measurement for social mission organizations. It will also take an in-depth look at the
history and evolution of a classic example of social entrepreneurship - microfinance.
Throughout the course, examples are given of real social entrepreneurs and social
entrepreneurial organizations in order give practical insight to complement the theory
covered in the different modules.
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history, theory and emerging
activities of social entrepreneurship around the world. Course topics also cover
management skills for social entrepreneurial organizations, scaling of social impact, and
social performance measurement. Special emphasis will be placed on microfinance, a
classic example of social entrepreneurship.

Course Learning Objectives

Understand the concept of social entrepreneurship

Analyze multiple theories of social entrepreneurship and their historical
antecedents
Describe how social entrepreneurship lies at the intersection of the fields of
entrepreneurship and social change
Evaluate how scholars and practitioners are defining the role and characteristics
of the social entrepreneur
Identify and evaluate different theories of social entrepreneurship and the
characteristics of social entrepreneurs
Evaluate the characteristics of social entrepreneurial organizations.
Discuss key issues regarding the management of a social entrepreneurial
organization.
Analyze the impact of a range of social entrepreneurial cases
 Differentiate between social service providers, social activist organizations, and
social entrepreneurial organizations
Assess the importance of scale and sustainability for the social entrepreneurial
organization.
Describe a variety of approaches and methods for measuring the impact of social
entrepreneurial organizations
Analyze and evaluate microfinance, a systems-changing example of social
entrepreneurship.
Assess social entrepreneurial opportunities (through case studies

Required Text:

Nicholls, Alex, ed. (2006) Social Entrepreneurship New Models of Sustainable Social
Change Oxford: Oxford University Press. Available via the following link:

http://www.untag-smd.ac.id/files/Perpustakaan_Digital_1/ENTREPRENEURSHIP
%20Social%20entrepreneurship,%20New%20m.pdf

Assessment and Grading Policy

Your grade in the course is determined by your performance on writing, research, and
speaking assignments. For students who complete all ofthe assignments, the final course
grade will be determined based on those assignments as follows:

Issue Research Assignment (group Presentation) 15%

In-Class Exams 50%
Social Enterprise Project Assignment, Written business model, including funding
request 20%
Social Entrepreneur/ Enterprise Assignment (15%)

1) Issue Research Assignment

To develop an innovation that is feasible, desirable, and viable requires subject
matter expertise. The gap between what you currently know and what you need to
know to produce an innovation is research. This assignment gets you started.
You are expected to work in groups of 2 3. All groups must be formed and
certified to me via e-mail by March 10. Due Date for this assignment is March 14.

2) In-Class Exams
There will be 2 exams in the course (midterm and final), covering the lectures,
readings, and prior assignments on, innovation, and social entrepreneurship.

3) Social Enterprise Project Assignment

For this project, students will work in teams
of 2 3 to develop and present a business model for a social Enterprise.
All groups must be formed and certified to me via e-mail by
Monday, April 20. This assignment will require you to research the need for the
enterprises product or service and the latent customer demand for the product or
service; to design a product or service that draws from the class discussions of
innovation; and to present your business model in both written and oral form.

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 The final section of your written assignment is a grant application for funding to
test the value and growth hypotheses of your business model during a leave-term.

Course Outline

Week 1:
26/2 Introduction to the Course
28/2 Course Basic Concepts- Lecture

Week 2:

5/3 Boschee, Jerr and McClurg, Jim (2003) Toward a Better Understanding of
Social Entrepreneurship: Some Important Distinctions, in Social Enterprise
Alliance
http://www.se-alliance.org/betterunderstanding.pdf

7/3 Reading textbook: Social Business Entrepreneurs Are the Solution/

Muhammad Yunus

Week 3
12/3 Textbook: The Citizen Sector Transformed, Bill Drayton
14/3 For What It Is Worth: Social Value and the Future of Social
Entrepreneurship- Rowena Young

Week 4:

19/3 LaFrance Associates (2006) Scaling Capacities: Support for Growing Impact ,
Skoll 2006 http://www.skollfoundation.org/media/skoll_docs/Scaling%20Capacities%20R
eport%20Final.pdf

21/3 Novogratz, Jacqueline (2005) Scale and Replicability

www.socialedge.org/discussions/scale/scale-and-replicability

Week 5:

26/3 Cultivating the Other Invisible Hand of Social Entrepreneurship: Comparative

Advantage, Public Policy, and Future Research Priorities
Geoff Mulgan

28/3 Social Entrepreneurship: The Structuration of a Field- Alex Nicholls and Albert
Hyunbae Cho

Week 6:

2/4 Social Entrepreneurship: Agency in a Globalizing World/ Paola Grenier

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4/4 Rhetoric, Reality, and Research: Building a Solid Foundation for the Practice of Social
Entrepreneurship
Beth Battle Anderson and J. Gregory Dees

Week 7:
9/4 Social Entrepreneurship: It Is for Corporations, Too 169
James E. Austin, Herman B. Leonard, Ezequiel Reficco,
and JaneWei-Skillern

11/4 Social Entrepreneurship: Exploring a Cultural Mode Amidst

Others in the Church of England 181
Doug Foster

Weeks 8

16/4 Social Enterprise Models and Their Mission and Money

Relationships 205
Sutia Kim Alter
18/4 The Socially Entrepreneurial City 233
Charles Leadbeater

Week 9

23/4 Helping People Is Difficult: Growth and Performance in Social

EnterprisesWorking for International Relief and Development
Alex Jacobs
25/4 The Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab): A University
Incubator for a Rising Generation of Social Entrepreneurs
Gordon M. Bloom

Week 10

30/4 Wayfinding Without a Compass: Philanthropys Changing

Landscape and Its Implications for Social Entrepreneurs 309
Sally Osberg

2/5 Delivering on the Promise of Social Entrepreneurship:

Challenges Faced in Launching a Global Social Capital Market 329
Pamela Hartigan

Week 11
7/5 Social Entrepreneurship: The Promise and the Perils 356
Jerr Boschee
9/5 Moving Ahead Together: Implications of a Blended Value
Framework for the Future of Social Entrepreneurship 391
Jed Emerson

Week 12- 15 Group Project Presentation

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