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Social Entrepreneurship Doctoral Seminar
Offered by IMD
July 20-25, 2025
August 31-September 5, 2025
Want to join our awesome community of social entrepreneurship (SE) researchers, aka SESAW? You are starting a PhD and would like to focus your research on SE? SE is not your core area but you always wanted to know the ins and outs of SE research? Ready for a deep dive into the ever-growing SE literature?
This a unique opportunity is for you!
Two week-long intensive social entrepreneurship doctoral seminars will be offered by IMD and led by Sophie Bacq next summer:
· July 20-25, 2025 in Copenhagen, preceding the Academy of Management annual meeting (with Elisa Alt as co-Teacher). We will be hosted by Kai Hockerts at the Copenhagen Business School.
· August 31-September 5, 2025 at IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland.
This one-of-a-kind doctoral seminar provides an in-depth survey of the core concepts and primary literature in the social entrepreneurship domain, as well as guidance for critical thinking and development as a social entrepreneurship scholar. Since 2010, the seminar has been offered every year (and recently, twice a year) to an international audience in locations around North America, Europe, and Africa.
The seminar is open to doctoral students and to faculty who would like to pursue social entrepreneurship research and study the domain in greater depth.
Students will apply and be admitted based on their qualifications and letters of interest. A maximum of ten students per class will be admitted (including 1-2 slots for faculty who may be interested). Students will be expected to read 50 academic journal articles and prepare discussion questions and notes prior to the intensive seminar. During the months immediately following the seminar, students seeking course credit will be asked to write an article for submission to a journal and/or academic conference. As such, the course will meet the contact hours and scholarly requirements to qualify as a 3-hour doctoral level credit course, equivalent to 6 ECTS.
Collaborations originating from relationships formed during past seminars have generated articles published in Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Review, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and International Small Business Journal, and numerous conference presentations.
To learn more about this award-winning, one-week intensive doctoral seminar, and request information about applying for the seminar, go to sedocseminar.org.
Application deadline: FEBRUARY 1, 2025
Sophie Bacq
Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, IMD
https://www.imd.org/centers/csi/imd-center-for-social-innovation/
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Sophie Bacq
Professor
International Institute for Management Development
Lausanne
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