Formation/Cours

The aims of the course include:

• To develop systematic knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship, and of the rationale, purposes and practices of traditional and social enterprises in different contexts.


• To immerse students into main entrepreneurship theories as well as presenting theories of organization in terms of their application to social enterprises.


• To offer opportunities to look at entrepreneurship in detail from different perspectives and to learn about essential tools to launch a venture, mixing theoretical concepts with creative thinking.


• To encourage students to adopt a critical and reflexive approach to understanding entrepreneurship and social enterprise.


• To examine ethical, critical and social issues that arise during the practice of managing enterprises.

LEARNING OUTCOMES- At the end of the course, students will be able to:

• To compare and contrast entrepreneurship and social entrepreneurship concepts, terms, and organizational forms.


• To summarize and theorize the contribution of social enterprises to social and economic change.


• To craft a solid and viable business model:


• To explain and apply the entrepreneurial decision-making process (going from a problem to an opportunity).


• To assess the feasibility of an idea as well as the relevance of an entrepreneurial project.


• To develop an industry and market analysis.


• To assess the funding and financial environment for entrepreneurial projects.


• To develop professional skills to contribute to strategic decisions regarding organizational development in one or more entrepreneurial contexts.

• Conceptualization of entrepreneurship.


• Conceptualization of social enterprises: schools of thoughts, institutional logics, hybridization.


• What makes an entrepreneur and a social entrepreneur? (Psychological Traits, Planned Behavior, Self-efficacy, etc.)


• Entrepreneurial characteristics and contexts (Ability, Risk, Personal characteristics, Context).


• Social Impact (Measuring impact, Green and social washing).


• Planning and starting up an entrepreneurial project (From idea to opportunity, feasibility, business model, industry and market analysis, entrepreneurial funding and finance).