Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool Business School
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Workshop
Module Offerings
6011LBSBSC-JAN-MTP
Aims
To provide students with an understanding of social enterprises, their holistic development and position within the larger economy, value systems and enabling and inhibiting factors.
The module will focus on both the theoretical perspectives of social enterprise and practice of social enterprise.
1. To allow students to critically examine the social enterprise business model and the reasons for its growth.
2. To provide students with an understanding of social enterprises' contribution to society and position within the economy.
3. To explore current opportunities and barriers to the continued growth of social enterprise.
4. To facilitate the ability of students to assess the support requirements of a social enterprise and suggest improvement strategies.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically examine the roots of social enterprise, national and international contemporaneous developments and their impacts.
2.
Critically evaluate the concept of social enterprise, its organisational and legal types within the context of public and private provision for products and services.
3.
Determine the rationale of the value system for social enterprise.
4.
Diagnose the role of suitable management practices within social enterprise.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:The module will allow students to critically analyse:
- The differences between social enterprise and the broader business community in the public and private sectors: including income and trading; accountability, the triple/multi-bottom line concept, organisational frameworks, the management of people, performance measurement and ethical issues;
- Different types of social enterprise, including governance issues, organisational structures, legal classification, business practices and international comparisons;
- The role of social enterprise within the local, regional, national and international economy/economies;
- Social entrepreneurship and the imperative to prove the value of social enterprise; - Understanding the internal requirements, strengths and weaknesses of social enterprises.
Therefore, lecture topics will include although are not limited to;
The Third Sector and the Third System
New Public Management
Defining Social Enterprises
Social and Ethical Capital
Identities and Legalities
Management Practices
Income Streams and Social Investment
Social Return on Investment
Module Overview:
This module will allow students to critically examine the social enterprise business model and the reasons for its growth; to provide an understanding of social enterprises' contribution to society and position within the economy; to explore current opportunities and barriers to the continued growth of social enterprise; and to assess the support requirements of a social enterprise and suggest improvement strategies.
This module will allow students to critically examine the social enterprise business model and the reasons for its growth; to provide an understanding of social enterprises' contribution to society and position within the economy; to explore current opportunities and barriers to the continued growth of social enterprise; and to assess the support requirements of a social enterprise and suggest improvement strategies.
Additional Information:The aim of this module is to equip students with an understanding of social enterprises, their holistic development and position within the larger economy, value systems and, enabling and inhibiting factors. The module will focus on both the theoretical perspectives of social enterprise and practice of social enterprise.