MGT 3219E: Business Ethics and CSR, Assignment, MEDAC, Malaysia

Task:

“There is a growing importance of social enterprise, and many business firms are moving towards social entrepreneurship. This is a great step forward both for the corporations as well as humanity”.

Using Grameen Bank as an example, critically discuss the statement above.

You can use the following guidelines to discuss:

1. Define social enterprise

https://www.kuskop.gov.my/admin/files/med/image/portal/PDF/SEMy2030/SEMy2030_Booklet_ENG.pdf

2. Explain Grameen bank its vision, mission, development and success factors

https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/publications/workingpapers/bwpi/bwpi-wp-6008.pdf

3. Weaknesses of SE

https://www.idosr.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IDOSR-JAS-52-49-55-2020..pdf

4. Reforms

These are some of the points and useful readings. Please feel free to search for more.

Objectives:

This assignment is timely as it requires students to examine the latest development in business ethics. Social enterprise is becoming more vibrant as corporations are progressively advancing towards this concept of business. However, venturing into social enterprise is not easy as there is much lacking a usable model and a framework. This question requires students to examine the progression of social enterprise as well as its limitations and controversies surrounding it.

Requirements for Submission:

• 2000 words essay (excluding appendices)
• Each question will be mainly evaluated based on the Content of analyzing the questions. Kindly refer to the marking scheme for more clarification.
• Adhere to Harvard Referencing.
• Turnitin similarity maximum 15%