Organization, Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Institution
Business, Economics, and Social Sciences
Department
Sozialökonomie
Teaching staff
Ali Aslan Gümüsay
SDG-topic cluster
Governance
Comments/contents
The course intends to expose students to high quality global research as well as local empirical cases. Topics are related to organization, social entrepreneurship and innovation. Structure & Topics: 1. Introduction 2. Organizing in & for Society – Case Selection 3. Leading Social Change – Methodological Considerations 4. Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship – Field Research 5. New Forms of Organizing & Grand Challenges – Research Dynamics 6. Scaling Social Change – Writing up Research Reports 7. Re-view & out-look
Didactic concept
Each session is divided into two parts. The first part engages with research topic specifics such as organizing in and for society, leading social change, social innovation, social entrepreneurship, new forms of organizing and grand challenges, and scaling social change. It commences with an overview into the theme followed by short student presentations of research articles and in-depth discussions about articles to unpack their implications, interrelationships and conceptual and practical consequences. The second part prepares students for their own work by focusing on research methodologies such as approaching cases, doing field research, and writing up research reports.
Semester
WiSe 19/20
Center for a Sustainable University
Mittelweg 177
20148 Hamburg
www.nachhaltige.uni-hamburg.de