Current trends in environmental and social entrepreneurship in the Slovak Republic
- Credits: 4
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: summer
- Year: 3
- Faculty of Business Management
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge
A comprehensive view of how to solve problems in business operations in the context of social and environmental entrepreneurship.
Competence:
- Understand working models of successful SMEs and NOs in social and environmental entrepreneurship,
- Understand current trends in social and environmental entrepreneurship in the Slovak Republic using examples of specific companies from real practice,
- to be able to define the specific problems and peculiarities of the activity and financing of SMEs in the Slovak Republic in the context of social and environmental entrepreneurship,
- be able to define specific problems and peculiarities of the activity and financing of SMEs in the Slovak Republic in the context of social and environmental entrepreneurship,
- to be able to make decisions on the possibilities of solving standard business activities in the field of social and environmental entrepreneurship in the Slovak Republic,
- apply knowledge of standard business activities in the field of social and environmental entrepreneurship in the Slovak Republic.
Skills:
- Solve practical problems in business in the context of social and environmental entrepreneurship.
- Respond to external synergies of multidimensional impacts using adequate tools.
- Gain experience in the preparation of environmental and social entrepreneurship projects.
- To perceive the gap in the domestic and international environment.
- To have experience in the practical application of knowledge in the field of social and environmental entrepreneurship.
Indicative content
1. SME financing with emphasis on: raising external resources - public sources, EU Funds.
2. Use of a wide range of human capital.
3. Staff training.
4. Responsible business, corporate social responsibility.
5. Pro-social policy and social agenda.
6. Community centre.
7. Social employment.
8. Corporate environmental responsibility.
9. Multifunctional sustainable management.
10. Environmental entrepreneurship in agriculture.
11. Zero-waste bio-technology. Comprehensive ecological production process of the enterprise. Regenerative soil care technologies..
12. Foreign business - cooperation with foreign countries.
13. Presentation of term papers.
Support literature
Basic literature:
1. Internal materials of the presenting companies:
- Annual reports
- Audit reports
- Assessment of budget execution
- Published statutory and consolidated annual accounts
Supplementary literature:
2. TUNCA, Çalyurt. K. New Approaches to CSR, Sustainability and Accountability, Volume I. Berlin : Springer, 2020. 271 s. ISBN 978-981-329-588-9.
3. DUBCOVÁ, Gabriela - CHOCHOLÁČKOVÁ, Kristína. Social innovation - the trend of a new enterprise generation : scientific monograph. Ljubljana : Verlag Dashöfer, 2017. 115 s. VEGA 1/0784/15. ISBN 978-961-6869-47-8.
4. IDOWU, Sam O. Current Global Practices of Corporate Social Responsibility. In The Era of Sustainable Development Goals. Berlin : Springer, 2021. 21 s. ISBN 978-3-030-68386-3.
5. DUBCOVÁ, Gabriela. The Social and Solidarity Economy - One of the Stabilization Ways of Human Capital in Slovak Business. Reviewers: Zdeněk Mikoláš, Jolana Volejníková. 1st Edition. Ljubljana : Dashöfer, 2018. ISBN 978-961-6869-56-0.
6. PAIVA, Inna S. - CARVALHO, Luísa C. Conceptual and Theoretical Approaches to Corporate Social Responsibility, Entrepreneurial Orientation, and Financial Performance. IGI Global, 2020. 369 s. ISBN 978-1-7998-2130-4.
7. DELBARD, Oliver. The Corporate Social Responsibility Agenda: The Case for Sustainable and Responsible Business Hardcover. World Scientific Publishing Co. 2020. 196 s. ISBN 978-9-8112-0659-7.
Requirements to complete the course
35 % preparation of case studies in seminars, 50 % preparation of term papers,
15 % presentation of the term paper.
Student workload
52 h (attendance at seminars 26 h, preparation for seminars 6 h, preparation of the term paper and preparation for presentation of the term paper 20 h
Language whose command is required to complete the course
slovak, english
Date of approval: 09.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 22.05.2022