Building a Curriculum for Social Business Entrepreneurship
In recent years social entrepreneurship has been emerging as a viable alternative to government policies for addressing some of the society’s most pressing issues. Academics have also started to take note but only a small number of institutions of higher education offer educational opportunities for...
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| description | In recent years social entrepreneurship has been emerging as a viable alternative to government policies for addressing some of the society’s most pressing issues. Academics have also started to take note but only a small number of institutions of higher education offer educational opportunities for students who want to become social entrepreneurs. In this paper I show how business schools are well equipped to offer a coherent curriculum for social business entrepreneurs at a relatively low marginal cost and argue that a business-heavy curriculum is appropriate. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f2c679352b8d4ee7a77797dd546e7ee52022-12-22T00:06:40ZengSciendoStudies in Business and Economics2344-54162016-08-01112192510.1515/sbe-2016-0017sbe-2016-0017Building a Curriculum for Social Business EntrepreneurshipDaraban Bogdan0Shenandoah University, Winchester, VA, United States of AmericaIn recent years social entrepreneurship has been emerging as a viable alternative to government policies for addressing some of the society’s most pressing issues. Academics have also started to take note but only a small number of institutions of higher education offer educational opportunities for students who want to become social entrepreneurs. In this paper I show how business schools are well equipped to offer a coherent curriculum for social business entrepreneurs at a relatively low marginal cost and argue that a business-heavy curriculum is appropriate.https://doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2016-0017social businesssocial entrepreneurship |
| spellingShingle | Daraban Bogdan Building a Curriculum for Social Business Entrepreneurship Studies in Business and Economics social business social entrepreneurship |
| title | Building a Curriculum for Social Business Entrepreneurship |
| title_full | Building a Curriculum for Social Business Entrepreneurship |
| title_fullStr | Building a Curriculum for Social Business Entrepreneurship |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building a Curriculum for Social Business Entrepreneurship |
| title_short | Building a Curriculum for Social Business Entrepreneurship |
| title_sort | building a curriculum for social business entrepreneurship |
| topic | social business social entrepreneurship |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1515/sbe-2016-0017 |
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