BE496-7-SP-CO:
Social Economy Management: Putting the Social Economy Into Practice
2023/24
Essex Business School
Colchester Campus
Spring
Postgraduate: Level 7
Future
Monday 15 January 2024
Friday 22 March 2024
20
08 August 2023
Requisites for this module
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BE485
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MSC N1E212 Management (Social Economy)
This module will explore the main approaches and practices within social economy enterprises and organisations.
The module will provide an overview of the key skills and management practices, including leadership, social entrepreneurship and governance, involved in running and supporting social enterprises. It will examine a range of different social enterprise organisations and structures through contemporary examples and case studies, enabling students to appreciate and understand the diversity of the social enterprise sector. The module will also outline the creation and assessment of value generation and impact within the social economy.
The aims of this module are:
- To equip students with an understanding of the main practical perspectives for managing and maintaining a social economy enterprise.
- To critically understand core components of social economy management including leadership, governance, and financial sustainability.
- To examine the use of evidence-based for creating a social economy based strategy.
- To explore how a social economy approach can be successfully promoted and implemented within local and regional business environments.
By the end of this module, students will be expected to be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the core practical knowledge for creating and maintaining a social economy enterprise.
- Critically evaluate different types of social economy initiatives and their appropriateness across diverse contexts.
- Apply the use of evidence for the promoting, implementing, and sustaining a social economy enterprise.
- Exhibit knowledge of the multiple factors involved in planning and evaluating the success of a social economy enterprise to a wide-range of relevant stakeholders.
- Develop skills for concretely engaging in a social economy enterprise.
Indicative Syllabus information
- Introduction – Putting the Social Economy into Practice
- Social Economy Skills Building – Leadership
- Social Economy Skills Building – Planning
- Social Economy Skills Building - Teambuilding
- Social Economy Skills Building – Entrepreneurship
- Innovation in the Social Economy
- Accounting and Finance for Social Economy Enterprises
- Creating a Social Economy Business Plan
- Evaluating Social Economy Initiatives
- Final Reflections
This module will be delivered via:
- One 2-hour lecture per week; and
- One 1-hour seminar per week.
Students will be able to enhance their learning through a range of supplementary learning technologies – including an online project collaboration tool developed by one of the teachers on the module Professor Peter Bloom and a board game developed especially for social economy PGT courses by a funded Erasmus project (of which our Group is a key partner).
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
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Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
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No external examiner information available for this module.
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No lecture recording information available for this module.
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