MANG6421 Social Entrepreneurship

MANG6421
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University of Southampton Business School
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Mine Karatas-Ozkan
Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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Timeline
  • February 15, 2021
    Experience start
  • February 15, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • April 28, 2021
    Feasibility Study and/or recommendations presentations
  • April 28, 2021
    Experience end
Experience
3/2 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any, Social Enterprise
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Product or service launch
Skills
social entrepreneurship business strategy research social innovation competitive analysis
Learner goals and capabilities

Are you up to date on the unique opportunities and challenges facing social ventures? The central driver for social entrepreneurship is the social problem being addressed in an innovative and entrepreneurial way, with an objective to create and sustain social and economic value. In this course students bring with them entrepreneurial skills and frameworks required to create and scale up a social venture. A team of students will develop a feasibility plan or focused recommendations for your social venture to help you pursue an opportunity; or overcome a challenge that you are facing; or scale up and expand your social venture's activities.

Learners

Learners
Graduate
Any level
20 learners
Project
30 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 4
Expected outcomes and deliverables

The final project deliverables will include:

  1. A feasibility plan and/or focused recommendations in the form of powerpoint slides.
  2. A presentation deck highlighting the key recommendations.
  3. An appendix with references.
Project timeline
  • February 15, 2021
    Experience start
  • February 15, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • April 28, 2021
    Feasibility Study and/or recommendations presentations
  • April 28, 2021
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

A group of students will work to produce a feasibility study and/or focused recommendations to address a specific challenge or to pursue an opportunity that your social venture/organization is facing. The final deliverable will include focused recommendations, a feasibility plan, if applicable. An appendix will be included, which will contain all research findings and references.

Areas of focus for this project can include, but are not limited to:

  • Developing a feasibility study or focused recommendations for your social enterprise to develop strategies to enter a new market; pursue a new social venture opportunity; to expand the existing social venture offerings (product and/or service).
  • Addressing an enterprise challenge that your social venture is facing, with focused recommendations.
  • Carrying out an entrepreneurial ecosystem analysis for identifying kinds and nature of networks that social enterprises can tap into and strengthen their customer/client; supplier; funder; employee base.
  • Performing a detailed competitor and environmental analysis;
  • Conducting a comparative and contextual international analysis of social ventures in similar domains with focused recommendations for developing collaborations .

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

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