Thesis On Social Enterprise

The program is housed in a top-10 school for international affairs, rather than in a traditional business or public policy school, which allows students to address a social problem and tackle it through both global and entrepreneurial perspectives.Some students will enter the program with business backgrounds; others will have experience in the social sector.

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Some have community organizing activities to influence the allocation government resources to these areas.

A few develop micro-enterprises as a job creation tool and (in the most successful cases) a source of revenue.

Rather, the idea of social entrepreneurship framed a convenient discourse within which to emphasise policy priorities centred on further incorporating a market orientation to addressing social needs, thereby extending the 'enterprise culture'.

In contrast, the practice of social entrepreneurship took place primarily at the community level, involving the labelling and support of several thousand 'social entrepreneurs' who carried out small-scale social initiatives.The MA in Social Enterprise (SE) program requires 39–42 credit hours of graduate coursework.The curriculum is built around the interests, passions, and needs of students and is designed to provide them with the knowledge, skills, and mindset necessary to launch a new venture or play a key leadership role in an existing organization.For further information, including about cookie settings, please read our Cookie Policy .By continuing to use this site, you consent to the use of cookies.This thesis examines the role and significance of the idea and practice of 'social entrepreneurship' within UK social policy between 19.Social entrepreneurship came to policy prominence in 1997 with the election of New Labour.The study identified four roles that social entrepreneurship plays in UK social policy, arising from the tensions between the market orientation of social entrepreneurship as an idea and its community oriented practice: celebrating the achievements of individuals; renegotiating welfare responsibilities through the 'active welfare subject'; creating a channel through which business can engage with community; and enabling government policy to respond to the particularism of the local.We use cookies to make interactions with our website easy and meaningful, to better understand the use of our services, and to tailor advertising.The curriculum is focused on practice, not theory, through a heavy use of hands-on, experiential learning.All students will complete the SE Practicum, which serves as the capstone of the two-year master’s program and enables students to integrate what they learn in their graduate coursework, consulting projects, study abroad, internships, and paid employment.