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BMGT20160

Academic Year 2024/2025

Business and Social Enterprise (BMGT20160)

Subject:
Business Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
2 (Intermediate)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Professor Federica Pazzaglia
Trimester:
Spring
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This module is essentially composed of two intertwined parts. The first part tasks you to apply entrepreneurial thinking to identify opportunities and solutions that will make an important positive impact on society: it is an invitation to redefine your environment in a creative and innovative way. In addition to this first part, in the second we addresses issues which become particularly relevant when the firm increases in size and scales up: how to ensure a long-run survival when external environmental conditions change (dynamic capabilities), how to properly balance today's needs with tomorrow's demand (ambidexterity), how to set and maintain a dominant design (network effects), and how to benefit from ideas that originate out of the traditional organizational boundaries (open innovation).

Using course readings, discussions, and case studies, you will be able to identify opportunities to create social value, undertake the initial discovery, research and validation steps required to assess the potential to create a scalable business. In order to achieve this, the module also provides some essential tools on how to set the most appropriate strategic direction of the firm, once it has been created.

Business and Social Enterprise helps you to integrate and apply key management, marketing, finance, and research skills developed in other modules. The module also aims at providing few but essential notions related to the strategic management field, which are expected to be very useful to successfully run both a social and "standard" enterprise. The module is also expected to strengthen your teamwork and creative skills.

The module will be practice-oriented, with several opportunities of interaction and real case discussions. The approach followed will be mostly inductive, i.e. students are guided towards the conception of a general theory starting from specific, real business situations.

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On completing this module, students will be able to:

1. Articulate and assess some key enterprise models;
2. Conduct independent research to assess the viability of a social enterprise idea;
3. Further deepen team working, creativity, project management and problem solving skills;
4. Demonstrate advanced and professional communication skills;
5. Understand and disentangle the different types of innovation, and the related implications;
6. Get familiar with theoretical models which help explaining and contextualizing technological change;
7. Recognize the different managerial approaches to innovation and how to handle change.

Indicative Module Content:

Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship

Social Issues in a Global Context

Entrepreneurial Logic

Creativity, Innovation & Opportunity Assessment

Customers, Value, Value Proposition, Social Impact

Elevator Pitch

Market Analysis, Opportunity Size

Case Studies

Social Enterprise Organisation Forms

Structures

Scaling

Dynamic Capabilities and Ambidexterity

Network Effects

Open Innovation

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

44
Autonomous Student Learning

48
Total

116

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Active/task-based in-lecture learning; peer and group work; lectures; case-based learning.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Incompatibles:
IA20060 - Social Entrepreneurship


 

Assessment Strategy Invalid Option
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): A final written based questions examination at the end of the trimester will focus on module themes and the material covered in class, the book, cases, and external guest speeches. End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
60
 Yes
Participation in Learning Activities: In-class participation will be evaluated. Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
10
 No
Group Work Assignment: Students will participate in team projects focused on a Social Business presentation. The instructor will provide all the necessary information during the first weeks of the module. Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12, Week 14, Week 15 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
30
 No

Carry forward of passed components Invalid Option
Yes
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn Yes - 2 Hour
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Book:
Kickul & Lyons (2020)
Understanding Social Entrepreneurship 3rd Edition. New York, Routledge (Selected Chapters that will be indicated during the first lecture)

Cases:
- Adobe systems incorporated (Tripsas, M.)
- IBM network technology (Chapman Wood, R.)
- Transforming company culture at Amgen Italy (Pistilli, L., Pennarola, F.)

Journal Articles:
- Von Hippel, E. (1986). Lead users: a source of novel product concepts. Management science, 32(7), 791-805.
- Teece, D. J., Pisano, G., & Shuen, A. (1997). Dynamic capabilities and strategic management. Strategic management journal, 18(7), 509-533.
- Gibson, C. B., & Birkinshaw, J. (2004). The antecedents, consequences, and mediating role of organizational ambidexterity. Academy of management Journal, 47(2), 209-226.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Spring Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 Mon 13:00 - 14:50
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