scholarly journals Is Corporate Social Entrepreneurship a (So Far) Missed Opportunity for Higher Education Institutions? Evidence from Germany

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13965
Author(s):  
Iris Rickhoff-Fischer ◽  
Christoph Schank ◽  
Arne Ortland
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Quadruple Helix ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Higher Education And Society ◽  
Student Demand ◽  
Corporate Social

(1) Background: Corporate social entrepreneurship (CSE) is a young phenomenon courting recognition that is attracting increasing attention in academia and corporate practice. Nevertheless, it has rarely found its way into the curricula of higher education institutions (HEI), which raises the question of the concept’s potential for further development in the realm of academic teaching; (2) Our study is based on a mostly qualitative research design consisting of expert interviews, focus groups, and a low-standardized survey; (3) Results: Corporate social entrepreneurship is seen as having strong potential to enrich education at institutions of higher learning, to establish new forms of teaching, and to bridge the gap between higher education and society; (4) Conclusions: Although our results indicate industry need and student demand for competent corporate social entrepreneurs, German HEIs have not yet integrated CSE-specific education into their curricula. However, the required competences are covered by CSE-related fields of study, which hampers the holistic education of CSE learners. A CSE curriculum needs to cover core CSE concepts as well as key competences, and the engagement of quadruple helix stakeholders requires an adjustable and transversal approach of curriculum development.

scholarly journals Students Perception on Social Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs)

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Radin Siti Aishah Radin A Rahman ◽  
Zaidatol Akmaliah Lope Pihie
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Achievement Level ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Social

Education can play a role in heightening the development of social entrepreneurship (SE) knowledge and skills in a developing country. Malaysia is amongst countries with undesirably low achievement level in the overall social entrepreneurship activity. Hence, efforts need to be enhanced so that the younger generation would be more inclined and motivated to partake in social entrepreneurship to contribute to the existing added value that students already possess. The early cultivation of social entrepreneurship can be detected through informal exposure by students who are actively involved in voluntary projects and developmental community club called ENACTUS. Apart from that, some higher education institutions are offering subjects and short term projects related to social entrepreneurship. The efficacy of SE education will be a yard stick to ensure that more prospective social entrepreneurs are produced in the future. Therefore, a descriptive research has been conducted on 350 ENACTUS members using stratified sampling to explore students and alumni perception on social entrepreneurship. Findings showed that a majority of students agreed if SE education is made a compulsory course in HEI. However, the alumni did not agree with this idea. Although many students and Alumni admitted that they understand the social entrepreneurship concept, nevertheless there are a select few who could not complete their main goal when managing ENACTUS projects. Therefore, they were unable to make their ideologies run concurrently with goals of the projects. This article will attempt to discuss the implications of cultivating the social entrepreneurship culture.

scholarly journals Internal Corporate Responsibility as a Legitimacy Strategy for Branding and Employee Retention: A Perspective of Higher Education Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Amir Ikram ◽  
Muhammad Fiaz ◽  
Asif Mahmood ◽  
Ayyaz Ahmad ◽  
Rafiya Ashfaq
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Employee Retention ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Organizational System ◽  
Internal Branding ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The City

Branding activities provide space to create internal culture, processes and a kind of organizational system which allows employees to use their abilities to their maximum. Internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of an organization increase employee commitment, which ultimately enhances employee retention. There is a need to explore internal branding in relation to internal CSR for the sake of managing employee retention. Therefore, the study empirically examines the underlying associations among internal branding, employee retention and internal CSR. The data are collected from higher education institutions operating in the city of Lahore, Pakistan. The sample size was 377 faculties belonging to both private and public sector higher education institutions. The analysis is based on variance-based structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings reveal that the internal branding practices have a significant impact on employee’s intention to stay within the organization, and intrasample analysis suggests few comprehensible variations with respect to private and public academic institutions. The research article also provides insights to faculty, academic entrepreneurs and marketers, especially those belonging to developing countries and facing issues of branding and employee retention.

PENDIDIKAN ETIKA REKA BENTUK DALAM PROGRAM INDUSTRI KREATIF DI INSTITUSI PENGAJIAN TINGGI MALAYSIA [DESIGN ETHICS EDUCATION FOR CREATIVE INDUSTRIES PROGRAMMES IN MALAYSIAN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS]

2022 ◽  
pp. 118-134
Author(s):  
MOHD AFIQ RIDHWAN TARMIZU ◽  
BALAMURALITHARA BALAKRISHAN ◽  
MUHAMMAD FADHIL WONG ABDULLAH
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Ethics Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Creative Industry ◽  
Ethical Aspects ◽  
Design Ethics ◽  
Ethical Education ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
Industry Professionals

Nowadays, the creative industry is rapidly developing with various technologies and creativity moving forward. However, problems and issues involving ethical aspects are still often seen on social media, television and print media, it clearly shows the lack of values and ethical aspects of the individual in the production of designs. Therefore, this study is conducted to propose the guidelines on ethical education design for creative industry programs in the institutions of higher learning. The objective of this study is to evaluate students' behavior towards design ethics among students of higher education institutions, evaluate teaching practices implemented by educators of higher education institutions as well as to assess challenges related to design ethics faced by creative industry professionals in submitting proposal regarding ethical education guidelines for creative industry programs. This study uses quantitative method which is the survey method in which questionnaires are distributed to respondents. For the sampling of studies, which is stratified sampling that refers to individual specific characteristic features in terms of his/her involvement in the creative industry. The numbers of respondents were 164 for the students, 108 respondents for the teaching staff and 89 respondents were from creative industry professionals. The findings of this study that are based on the mean value and standard deviation from the data collected through the survey study, show that students' behavior on ethical aspects is an important aspect of design ethics. Meanwhile, for the lecturers, the teaching practices implemented show that ethical aspects are a crucial element in the teaching sessions. Next, for the creative industry professionals, ethical aspects are considered as an important element in facing the challenges regarding design ethics. This is explained through the findings of students, lecturers and creative industry professionals through high recorded mean value. Therefore, it is clear that ethical aspects are a vital element to these three groups. Thus, a guideline on ethical education design for creative industry programs in institutions of higher learning is produced through the findings. Hence, this study provides a module on design ethics education that can be practiced in creative industry programs in Institutions of Higher Learning in Malaysia.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND IMPACT INVESTING

2013 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-221
Author(s):  
Maarten J. Verkerk
Keyword(s):  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
World View ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Impact Investing ◽  
Environmental Objectives ◽  
Accounting Scandals ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Global World

The financial crisis and accounting scandals in large companies have stimulated a thorough assessment of the contribution of enterprises and financial institutions to the greater public good and economic prosperity. This assessment has led to a revaluation of the ideas of social entrepreneurship and impact investing. In this article we explore the nature and character of these ideas by a philosophical analysis and by comparison with profit-driven organizations and corporate social responsibility. We show that social entrepreneurs and impact investors distinguish themselves by their social and environmental objectives, their focus on the justified interests of all stakeholders, and their values and world view. We also make a reasonable case that in the coming decade social entrepreneurs and impact investors will play an important role in the development of the global world.

Mindset and Social Entrepreneurship: Japanese Self-initiated Expatriate Entrepreneurs in Cambodia

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuko Yokoyama ◽  
Sarah Louisa Birchley
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Social Entrepreneurs ◽  
Extended Study ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Context Characteristics ◽  
Initial Research

This research is based on an extended study of Japanese self-initiated expatriate entrepreneurs (SIEEs) in Asia. Since 2015 the authors have explored various factors that influence SIEEs when setting up enterprises overseas, including the ability to take initiative; support and encouragement from family, a well-defined career anchor and exposure to overseas in the exploration stage of one’s career. An emerging trend is the desire to engage in social development activities, which has seen increasing numbers of Japanese leave well-paid companies at home to work in NGOs in developing countries. An extension of this can be seen in Japanese who choose to become self-initiated expatriate social entrepreneurs. This article focuses specifically on cases collected in Cambodia and attempts to explain how and why Japanese decide to become self-initiated expatriate social entrepreneurs in Cambodia using the concept of mindsets; entrepreneurial, social, sustainable and global. Initial research shows that some of these individuals exemplify the definition of sustainable entrepreneurship as they are creative and question the status quo in order to seek new opportunities for societal improvement ( Bornstein, 2007 ) and have multiple mindsets behind their actions. This research paper shares the context, characteristics, and outcomes of Japanese self-initiated expatriate social entrepreneurs in Cambodia and concludes by suggesting how knowledge of these SIEEs can be used in higher education contexts in Japan to improve entrepreneurship education.

EDUCATING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP: INSIGHTS FROM THE HIGHER EDUCATION COURSES IN HONG KONG

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 145-164
Author(s):  
KIN YUEN RAYMOND TAM
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
General Education ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Social Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Single Subject ◽  
Education Courses

The purpose of this article is to uncover the trend of developing education courses for social entrepreneurship in higher education institutions in Hong Kong. The author had searched the syllabi or course descriptions across the websites of the higher education institutions in Hong Kong with the keywords of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and social innovation. It was found that most of the social entrepreneurship courses offered were one-off single subject for undergraduate students, General Education courses, and minor courses, with only a few courses targeting postgraduates. It was also found that curricular differences among the courses offered by various schools or faculties were not that obvious. To understand this, the author had undertaken an analysis of the schools where these courses resided, course objectives, course content, and teaching and learning strategies among these various social entrepreneurship courses. Discussion of these has given insights to arguing for the need of multidisciplinary collaborations among social entrepreneurship educators.

scholarly journals Discovering Higher Education Institutions before Solerno

10.28945/3892 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 195-205
Author(s):  
Crystal R Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Future Research ◽  
History Of Higher Education ◽  
Communities Of Learners ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education Coursework

Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this manuscript is to bring communities of learners before Solerno, Bologna, and Paris from the margin to the center of history of higher education discourse. Background: Most history of higher education coursework in the global west begins with institutions of higher learning in western Europe – Solerno, Bologna, and Paris. However, this tradition discounts the histories of higher education particularly of institutions in the global east, which predate European models Methodology: The author brings these communities of learners from the margins to the center of higher education histories by way of historical overview. Contribution: In so doing, the author informs scholar instructors of ancient higher education from a more globalized perspective. Findings: The major finding of this work is that there is a history of higher education prior to the rise of institutions in the global west. Recommendations for Practitioners: From this work, history of higher education coursework in the global west should be adjusted to include acknowledgement as well as greater exploration of ancient higher education institutions as part of our collective global under-standing of the history of higher education. Future Research: This work more broadly identifies for open exploration of ancient higher education institutions.

scholarly journals Implementation of MBKM and the Relationship of Curriculum Policy based on a Case of EFL Education in Japan

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Ina Rohiyatussakinah
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Communicative Language Teaching ◽  
Curriculum Policy ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
The University ◽  
Relationship Of

The current trend of globalization and development in information technology had boosted the new curriculum of Merdeka Belajar, Kampus Merdeka (MBKM), which has become a universal issue in higher education at several universities in Indonesia. In this demanding and challenging information era in which we live, EFL instruction at higher education institutions needs to offer the students more than general proficiency in English. However, it is not an easy task to design a curriculum at the university level to address these issues. The aim of the research to design a communicative language teaching program developed for teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) at X University. It aims to illustrate the rationale and process of designing a flexible curriculum for university students. This study used a Qualitative research design to present the data. The result clearly showed about The curriculum presented in this paper is intended to be a model for teaching EFL or other foreign languages at higher education institutions based on the case of EFL education in Japan related to MBKM, still relevant to adopt Japan Education policy in our Higher educational program most of them need communicative language teaching for their proficiency in English at higher educational level.

scholarly journals Penyusunan Model Program Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) di Perguruan Tinggi Kota Salatiga Dalam Upaya Meningkatkan Intake Perguruan Tinggi

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Lina Sinatra Wijaya ◽  
Krismiyati Krismiyati
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Suitable Model ◽  
Higher Education Institution ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Corporate Social

<em>Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is one of the promotion techniques done by a Public Relations in higher education institutions to face the tougher competition among the higher education institution in gaining new students. Most higher education institutions in Salatiga try to do some CSR programs to achieve their goal. This study tries to investigate what suitable model of CSR done by higher education institutions in Salatiga-Central Java which is also implemented and the influence of this program to students’ intake in one academic year. Lastly, it tries to propose a CSR modeling for increasing students’ intake at higher education Institution in Salatiga-Central Java. This study employs interview and literature study for data collection. The data are then analyzed qualitatively to answer the posed research questions. This study involved 7 Higher education institutions in Salatiga-Central Java and also 19 High schools which are spread in 7 cities in Central Java. The result of the study shows that the Public Relations unit in each higher education institutions has carried out their CSR program to some of the Schools in Central Java, but lack of coordination done by both parties. However they emphasize their CSR program focusing on community service, high school student activities, scholarships and training. In order to effectively achieve the goal, an intake cycled relations model is proposed.</em>

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