BE940-6-FY-CO:
Cooperative Management and Marketing – Capstone Module
2024/25
Essex Business School
Colchester Campus
Full Year
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Thursday 03 October 2024
Friday 27 June 2025
15
03 September 2024
Requisites for this module
(BE400 or BE410 or BE511) and BE425
(none)
(none)
BE938, BE939
(none)
This is a full year module available only to students in the Essex Business School undertaking an independent research project, replacing the standard final year project (BE938). Specifically, it will provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge about managing and marketing cooperative and worker-owned businesses. It will offer them the academic knowledge and practical experience to effectively promote consensus and democratic based collective decision-making as well as balancing revenue production with maximizing social impact. It will also explore how collaborative advantage and cooperative networks can be used as sources of enhanced value creation for improving processes, services, and products. The student will be required to complete an independent research project working closely with a cooperative organisation of their choice. The student will actively use the links between the knowledge and skills developed in their academic course to inform a research project based on a specified organisational challenge experienced by their chosen cooperative organisation.
To teach innovative management and marketing techniques through its application and practice and through critical reflection on those processes;
• To increase the employability of students by developing and enhancing their transferrable and subject-specific knowledge and skills within a range of cooperative and worker-owned organisations as well as more conventional private, public, and third sector organisations interested in these perspectives.
• To increase the employability of students by developing and enhancing skills linked to consensus building, collaboration, collective decision-making, producing social value, and effectively running cooperative and worker-owned organisations.
• To develop in students a critical understanding of the ethical issues involved in cooperative management and marketing;
• To encourage better understanding of personal and professional development planning, professional ethics, and reflective learning;
• To introduce students to key skills in creating and sustaining cooperative based value at all levels of the organisation;
Successful completion of the module will allow students to meet the following outcomes:
A Knowledge and understanding
1. A better theoretical and practical understanding of value creation within cooperative based work settings.
B Intellectual/cognitive skills
1. A capacity to connect subject-specific theory to practice.
C Practical Skills
1. Development of presentational skills.
D Key skills
1. Development of independent research skills.
2. Improved personal professional skills.
E Project Related
1. Applied academic knowledge and experience to produce a significant piece of project work
No additional information available.
We will be utilizing a blended learning approach that will include the following elements across the Autumn and Spring Term:
• 3 x 1-hour academic lectures delivered by the module team in the Autumn Term
• 7 Support Classes on various aspects of how to conduct research.
• 6 x 30 minutes scheduled formal supervision meetings in the Autumn and Spring Term to discuss your chosen research challenge, research proposal and receive support throughout the completion of your work.
• 2 Optional Drop-in Group Sessions (Spring Term)
• Weekly office hours to discuss project with module team.
These will be used to create, monitor, and informally evaluate their personal development plans and progress in the module. Contact hours and supervisory sessions will be arranged for you to discuss the progress of your work and receive formative feedback.
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course.
The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students.
Further reading can be obtained from this module's
reading list.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Video Presentation |
24/02/2025 |
20% |
| Coursework |
Assignment |
01/05/2025 |
80% |
Additional coursework information
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
• Video Presentation - 15%
• Cooperative Case Study - 25%
• Individual Assignment - 60%
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
Dr Camila Vergara, email: camila.vergara@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Camila Vergara, Dr Olimpia Burchiellaro, Dr Rodrigo Guimaraes Nunes
camila.vergara@essex.ac.uk
No
No
No
Dr Christopher David Land
Dr Muhammad Asif Khan
Available via Moodle
Of 1 hours, 1 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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