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| GEST0379-1 | Entrepreneurship and management in the social economy
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Credits/ECTS : |
| management engineering, 2nd year | | Deuxième quadrimestre | | 3,5 |
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| management engineering, 3rd year | | Deuxième quadrimestre | | 4 |
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| "licencié" in economical sciences, 2nd year | | Deuxième quadrimestre | | 4 |
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| "maître" in economical sciences, 2nd year | | Deuxième quadrimestre | | 4 |
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| "licencié" in company management, 2nd year | | | | 4 |
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| Master in Economical Sciences, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Economical Sciences, didactic approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Economical Sciences, specialized approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Population and Development Sciences, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 6 |
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| Master in Sociology, in-depth approach, 2nd year | | Toute l'année | | 6 |
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| Master in Management of Human Resources, specialized approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 6 |
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| Master in Population and Development Sciences, specialized approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 6 |
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| Holder(s) : | N... |
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| Substitute(s) : | Sybille Mertens de Wilmars |
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| Language : | Langue française |
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| Course contents : | The course will take place during the second semester, on Thursdays, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., on teh Sart-Tilman Campus.
The course is structured in two parts:
The first part comprises some 20 hours of theoretical lectures. These lectures will allow to describe the sector of the social economy in Belgium, to understand its raison d'être and to deduce its specificity in terms of management (in particular for marketing, funding modes and management of human resources).
The second part has a more active character. Students will be invited to take part in a thematic workshop. Various subjects are proposed (the subjects chosen will be confirmed during the first class, depending on the interests of the students): fair trade, work-integration social economy, ethical finance, waste recycling, cultural activities, health mutual societies etc. The students will read several articles on the subject chosen (a list will be provided) and they will have to contact an organisation active in this field (visit on the field and/or collection of data via the Internet and other media). They will have to write an individual essay (about ten-page long) meeting three goals:
- briefly describing the field of activity and the organisation chosen;
- justifying the existence of social economy organisations in this area of activity;
- analysing the managerial specificity of the organisation which can be accounted for by its belonging to the social economy sector.
The essays (in their draft form) will have to be handed over to the teachers on the day of the workshop.
The workshop will take place during a two-hour class. The teacher will be accompanied by two resource-persons: a specialised researcher and a field practitioner. The teacher will lead the debate around (1) the raisons d'être of social economy organisations in this area, (2) the managerial specificities of organisations which can be accounted for by their belonging to the social economy sector. Students will be invited to "test" their written work by orally taking part in the debate. The teacher and resource-persons will react to the interventions of the students. |
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| Course objective : | The social economy refers to the group constituted by the enterprises of the private sector whose main goal is of a social nature. Most of these enterprises are non-profit organisations (associations), cooperatives, NGOs, mutual societies and foundations. These forms of organisations are still very little studied from the point of view of management sciences.
This course seeks to improve the knowledge of the social economy, to highlight the specificity of management in social economy enterprises and to propose tools adapted to entrepreneurship and management in this sector. |
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| Written notes : | The students will be informed of the existence of a collection of notes covering some of the chapters of the course. Complementary bibliographical references will be given during the classes. |
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| Assessment : | The students will be evaluated on the basis of (1) their participation in the workshop, on the one hand (5 points) and (2) a writtene xaminationon the other hand (15 points). |
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| Contacts : | Chaire Cera
Centre d'Economie Sociale
HEC-Ecole de Gestion de l'Université de Liège
Bâtiment B33 - bte 4
4000 Liège
Tel.: 04/366 27 51 - fax : 04/366 28 51
E-mail: smertens@ulg.ac.be or catherine.davister@ulg.ac.be |
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