SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Paper Code: 
24MIV322
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to gain comprehensive understanding of the components and dynamics of the start-up ecosystem, including incubators, accelerators, funding sources, and support networks.

 

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching

strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course title

24MIV322

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP

(Theory)

CO406: Explore the concept of social entrepreneurship and understand its objectives, principles, and key characteristics.

CO407: Develop the ability to make ethical decisions in business contexts, considering the various aspects of    social responsibilities of businesses in India.

CO408: Assess and prioritize opportunities for social entrepreneurship and explore the role of business incubators in supporting              social entrepreneurs.

CO409: Examine the hybrid spectrum in social entrepreneurship, ranging from purely profit-driven enterprises to purely social enterprises.

CO410: Develop skills to classify the social enterprises on the basis of various characteristics. CO411: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Group Discussion, Tutorials, Case Study

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, presentations

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

 

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: 
  • 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:

JOURNALS:

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

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
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