Social entrepreneurship
- Credits: 6
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2P + 2C
- Semester: winter
- Year: 3
- Faculty of Economics and Finance
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Learning outcomes:
The course provides students with an overview of the social economy and its tools. It will introduce the position and importance of social entrepreneurship in solving community, social, environmental and societal problems. It analyzes the socio-economic and legislative assumptions and factors influencing the establishment of social entrepreneurship in the countries of the European Union with an emphasis on conditions in the Slovak Republic.
Knowledge and understanding:
- Acquire theoretical and practical knowledge of the functioning of the third sector and the business sector in relation to the solution of societal problems.
- Analyze and professionally process theoretical and practical issues of social entrepreneurship.
Skills:
- Analyze, compare and evaluate models of social entrepreneurship in the context of socio-economic development of Slovakia and selected countries of the European Union.Acquire
Competencies:
- specific and core competencies for the needs of the functioning of social economy subjects with an emphasis on social entrepreneurship.
- discuss current social problems and possibilities to solve them through social entrepreneurship,
- independent work in the field of creating a business plan of a social enterprise,
- the ability to take the social aspect into account when solving societal problems
Indicative content
Within the course, students will get acquainted with the concept of social economy with an emphasis on social entrepreneurship. We will focus on the tools of the social economy, various models of social enterprise in relation to the solution of social, societal and community problems.
1. Theoretical background, goals and tasks of the social economy in the context of socio-economic inequalities.
2. Social economy tools with an emphasis on social entrepreneurship.
3. Social entrepreneurship as an innovative business model.
4. Business activities of the third sector.
5. Work Integration Social Enterprise.
6. Opportunity for social entrepreneurship in the green economy.
7. The role of social entrepreneurship in regional development.
8. Social entrepreneurship in the field of social services, education, protection and strengthening of health, care for the elderly, vulnerable and disabled.
9. Management and marketing in social business.
10. Legislative background of social entrepreneurship and registered social enterprises.
11. Selected models of social entrepreneurship and their financing.
12. Social entrepreneurship in the context of social responsibility.
13. Trends of social entrepreneurship in the European Union with an emphasis on the Slovak Republic.
Support literature
1. KORIMOVÁ, G. a kol. Sociálne podnikanie. Banská Bystrica: Kopernikus, 2007. ISBN 978-80-89288-14-4
2. YUNUS, M. Building Social Busines, New York: Publicaffairs, 2010. ISBN 978-1-58648-824-6
3. BANKS, K. Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Kogan Page, 2021. ISBN 9781398695573
4. LUBELCOVÁ, G. Sociálna ekonomika: koncepty, príležitosti, riziká. In Sociológia : časopis pre otázky sociológie. - Bratislava : Sociologický ústav SAV, 2012. ISSN 0049-1225, 2012, roč. 44, č. 1, s. 83-108
5. PONGRÁCZ, E. a kol.: Sociálna ekonomika. Bratislava: EKONÓM, 2015. ISBN 978-80-225-4149-7
6. AMIN, A. The Social Economy – International perspectives on economic solidarity. London: Zed Books, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84813-252-5
7. ROGER D. J. Rediscovering Social Economics. Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2017. ISBN 9783319512648
Requirements to complete the course
Active participation in seminars – 10%
Project elaboration – 15%
Written test – 15%
Written final exam – 60%
Language whose command is required to complete the course
Slovak, English
Date of approval: 07.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 04.11.2021