Social Entrepreneurship and Management 

Overview

Despite uncertainties related to the Covid-19 crisis, Roskilde University is committed and prepared to deliver high quality education on campus as well as online if needed.

Social entrepreneurs create social innovation with a view to solving societal problems and develop social value across traditional sectors and professions. The Master in Social Entrepreneurship and Management at Roskilde Universityis inter-disciplinary and draws upon areas such as sociology, organizational leadership and governance as well as research in social innovation, social enterprise, CSR and social accounting. You learn a wide-range of theories, concepts and practices within the following fields:

• Social transformation, social entrepreneurship and social enterprise

• Social innovation, social change, sustainable transition and accounting

• Leadership and management in social enterprise, business models and social entrepreneurship in practice

You will gain skills for initiating, analyzing and managing social innovation and change processes. By exploring leadership and management processes in complex, multi-dimensional organisations, the programme aims to prepare academically-oriented practitioners for the reality of running, shaping and transforming the next generation of social enterprises and innovation-led organisations.

Career

Graduates will typically be required  to work as entrepreneurs and managers within social innovation and as change agents and process facilitators in private, public and social enterprises, third sector organisations, as well as in national and international organisations and NGOs. Some graduates start their own social enterprises.