Transformative Entrepreneurship and Prosperity: Core Concepts (BGLP0010)

Module content

This module introduces core concepts, frameworks and theories of transformative entrepreneurship. As part of this module, you will: consider the core ideas of ‘prosperity thinking’ in relation to contemporary responses to socioeconomic and environmental crises (such as green growth, degrowth, sustainable development goals); learn about the emergence and forms of social entrepreneurship; understand entrepreneurship as an institution, intervention, policy and practice; study concepts and theories relevant for analysing the transformative potential of entrepreneurship (such as community-based enterprise, effectuation, frugal innovation, institutional theory, social movements); explore the promise and limits of transformative entrepreneurship to provoke institutional and structural change in different settings, including extreme and diverse global contexts (e.g. displacement, migration, poverty, violence); and finally, how to evaluate the potential of transformative entrepreneurship to both advance more equitable, inclusive societies and address global challenges. The learning process includes a range of online materials, classes, teaching cases, as well as individual and group research work.

Illustrative module outline

Introduction: Concepts, definitions, emergence, forms
	Why transformative entrepreneurship? Global challenges and prosperity
	Entrepreneurship: Institution, intervention, policy or practice?
	Entrepreneurship: Innovation and transformative change
	Social entrepreneurs: Metaphors and motivations
	Social innovation and measuring social impact
	Transformative enterprise: Inclusivity, poverty and prosperity
	Extreme contexts and the limits of transformative enterprise

Comparative Politics|European Politics|Information Governance|Management and Policy|International Relations and Politics|Political Theory|Politics|Security Policy

COURSE OUTLINE

Since the end of the Cold War, a wider variety of issues and actors have come to the fore in international relations. Shifting away from...