Social Entrepreneurship Learning Model in Higher Education using Social Network Analysis

Abstract

Social Entrepreneurship aims to solve social problems and focus more on giving social impact on society. The academic programs of most universities tend to teach students to be employees instead of developing skills and competencies to try something new, particularly being involved in any entrepreneurship endeavours. Social entrepreneurship courses have been introduced in many universities to ensure the employability rate of fresh graduates while equipping the students with entrepreneurial capabilities that are essential for the graduates when they are immersed in the society. In order to decrease the unemployment rate, the government suggested that graduates should be involved in entrepreneurship activities. This paper contributes to the development of social entrepreneurship learning model in higher education. The constructs of this model are acquired from the extant literature reviews of the existing models in social entrepreneurship, analysis of the relationships of data and patterns in social entrepreneurship through Social Network Analysis (SNA) are discussed using the narrative approach. This approach is chosen to fully understand the concept of social entrepreneurship from enormous social media data. This social entrepreneurship learning model will help in creating, developing and sustaining a rising generation of social entrepreneurs whilst reducing fresh graduate’s unemployment rate and nurturing more skills to the students.