“Educating Social Entrepreneurs” -- Reminder – Extended Deadline
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A Call for Exercises, Cases, and Commentaries
There is a surprising dearth of practical, hands-on, interactive materials for social entrepreneurship that is common in other disciplines. For instance, a recent review of social entrepreneurship texts (Moss and Gras, “A Review and Assessment of Social Entrepreneurship Textbooks,” Academy of Management Learning & Education Vol 11 Issue 3: 518-527) concluded that “instructors and professors are generally left on their own when it comes to activities that emphasize the create level of critical thinking. … Future editions of these texts could more thoughtfully consider how to include activities that will encourage creating on the part of students” (page 526). This is precisely the purpose of this “Pedagogy Development Workshop”.
You are cordially invited to submit a proposal that will be an opportunity to develop experiential exercises and short cases specifically for social entrepreneurship along with complementary readings. The University at Albany-State University of New York’s Institute for Teaching, Learning and Academic Leadership (ITLAL) will provide its expertise to this workshop, and Business Expert Press will publish accepted items in a workbook as part of the United Nations PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Book Collection. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the topics below; of course, these are suggestions only and subject to changes based on reviewers’ comments and actual submissions.
Topics:
1. Background and Introduction to the Workbook
2. Defining and Distinguishing Social Entrepreneurship
3. Moral and Ethical Foundations for Social Enterprises
4. Contexts for Social Entrepreneurs
5. Ideas for Social Innovation
6. Recognizing and Pitching Social Opportunities
7. Developing a Business Model and Plan
8. Organizational Structures and Hybrid Organizations for Social Enterprises
9. Mobilizing Resources to Fund Social Ventures
10. Assessing Risks for Social Enterprises
11. Scaling the Social Venture
12. Evaluating Social Impact, Value, and Accountability of Social Projects
13. Special Topics: Ecopreneuring as Social Enterprises
14. Supplementary Materials (videos and Web pages)
All final items will require a standard format and framework, teaching notes, and suggested readings, videos, Web sites, and other supplementary materials. Proposals need not exceed 500 words, and completed exercises and cases should be handled within a one class hour. In addition, we will invite commentaries that summarize the extant literature in the particular topics that should be 10-20 double-spaced pages (including figures and tables). All items will go through a peer review process, and the workshop will be organized for the purpose of critiquing these works-in-progress so they are improved. Based on reviewers’ comments and suggestions as well as feedback at the workshop, all submissions will be revised and re-submitted for the final volume of teaching materials. Further publisher requirements and publishing details will be made available after final acceptance.
Key Dates:
• Proposals or committal letters – to be submitted electronically by January 2, 2015
• Notification of accepted proposals – February 1, 2015
• Receipt of items – April 1, 2015
• Revision feedback – May 1, 2015
• Workshop – May 21, 2015
• Receipt of final items – August 1, 2015
• Anticipated publication – late Fall 2015
Interested but don’t have an item available for submission? Not to worry, we have assembled raw material for various exercises and cases that we would be happy to share with you; or, you might be interested in submitting one of the commentaries on the state-of-the-art and “best practices” for one of these topics. Also, volunteers are welcome to help review submissions and participate in the workshop. For more information, contact editors: Prof. Paul Miesing, University at Albany School of Business, State University of New York, Albany, New York, USA at
paul.miesing@albany.edu; or Prof. Maria Aggestam, Sten K. Johnson Centre for Entrepreneurship, Lund University, Sweden at
maria.aggestam@fek.lu.se.
Can’t read this? Flyer available at
http://www.albany.edu/business/assets/cfp-educating-social-entrepreneurs.pdf .
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Paul Miesing
UAlbany, State University of New York at Albany
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