Abstract

(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.

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  • Corporate Social EntrepreneurshipCorporate social entrepreneurship (CSE), an increasingly and intensively discussed phenomenon in recent years, is a fuzzily defined concept struggling for recognition among academics and business practitioners

  • We begin to discuss our results by scrutinizing the transferability of the above-outlined scientific discussions evolving around the CSE concept to the German academic community by analyzing its current diffusion in German higher education institutions (HEI)

  • Based on in-depth analysis of both bachelor and master programs according to their module titles and descriptions, a total of 69 study programs at 53 universities could be identified as incorporating CSE-relevant contents

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Introduction

Corporate social entrepreneurship (CSE), an increasingly and intensively discussed phenomenon in recent years, is a fuzzily defined concept struggling for recognition among academics and business practitioners. 77), who postulated that the “ evolution in the capitalism model recognizes new and better ways to develop products, serve markets, and build productive enterprises.”. It seems that the urgent need for transformation of entire economies and societies favors the preoccupation with the new concept, which is conspicuously often associated with emergent market economies, low-income markets, Sustainability 2021, 13, 13965.

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