Within the scope of the recent changes in the Master’s Degree in Social Intervention, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MISIE), at the University of Coimbra, a curricular unit on Management of Social Organizations and Enterprises was created in the 2nd semester of the 1st year. Thus, the theme of social enterprises is reinforced, being also addressed in the curricular unit Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, from the 1st semester of the 1st year.
Management of Social Organizations and Enterprises
Responsible teachers: Helena Almeida (FPCEUC) and Patrícia Moura e Sá (FEUC)
Program:
I Introductory elements
Organizations, social enterprises; mission, strategic guidelines; convergence and differentiation aspects
II Organizational models relevant to social organizations
Mechanistic, organicist model, systemic approaches
Management, power and decision levels
Organizational structures
III Management of organizational resources
Organizational sustainability
Feasibility, financing and fundraising
Strategy, organizational efficiency and organizational performance assessment
IV People management and organizational relationships
Supervision, evaluation and staff training
Interdisciplinary collaboration in teams
Management of emotions and conflicts
Networks and working in partnership
V Ethics and organizational accountability
Values and ethics in the practice of “social management”
Accountability “relations” in social organizations
Accountability models and mechanisms
Society, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Responsible Teacher: Sílvia Ferreira
Program:
I Perspectives and models of social innovation and social entrepreneurship;
The emergence of the concept of social entrepreneurship
Individual entrepreneurship and collective entrepreneurship
Schools and models of social entrepreneurship
II Social innovation processes: from the diagnosis of social problems to social transformation;
The European Social Innovation Agenda
Social transformation and innovation
Social innovation and public policy
The cycle of social innovation
III Contexts, conceptual debates and practices of the social and solidarity economy;
Contexts of the third sector and the social and solidarity economy;
The conceptual debates of the third sector, social economy and solidarity economy;
The social economy in hybridization with the State, the market and society
Transformative resilience and social and solidarity economy
IV Approaches and models of social businesses and their contexts and ecosystems.
The emergence and contexts of social enterprises
The schools of social enterprise
The dimensions of social enterprises
Social business models
The theme of social enterprises is also addressed in the Post-Graduate Course in Social Economy, at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra, under the module “Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Social Economy and Social Enterprises”.