Program and courses Organizing for Global Social Challenges track

• Evidence Based Intervention 
  Learn how organizational change and evidence-based actions are crucial to mold organizations to the needs of a complex, multi-factor, multi-stakeholder environments, characterized by high dynamism and sudden shocks.
• Social Changes and Sustainable Development
  Get an overview of the most urgent global challenges for sustainable development, such as poverty and inequality, migration, climate change and environmental degradation. Learn how these challenges foster social change. Discuss the role organizations can play in tackling global sustainable development issues, particularly through sustainable business models and by leveraging digital platforms, and the challenges and shortcomings such organizational interventions may entail.
• Complexity within Organizations
  Whilst working in small teams you analyze complex problems in real contemporary cases and propose and present interventions. You will look at team effecitveness, virtual teams, dynamic systems, multiteam systems, and complexity of gender.

• Interorganizational Relationships
  Learn that inter-organizational relations hold a crucial role, in various forms. Collaborations between local entrepreneurs and established firms to penetrate poor markets are considered crucial, as well as public-private partnership to channel development aids in difficult areas.
• Organizational Dynamics
  Study dynamic processes involving causes and consequences in and around organizations through serious gaming, for which you will host an intervention. You will also design and conduct two interventions in organizations and report on it to the client organization you are studying. 
• Master’s Seminar Organization and Management Studies
  Master’s seminars prepare you for your Master’s thesis, which will focus on a GMSI-related topic.

• Hybrid Organizations 
  This course introduces the role of hybrid organizations and considers various organizational models and initiatives that may strengthen policy actions in tackling social issues and improving sociodemographic indicators. You are introduced to different types of ‘hybrid organizations’, especially social entrepreneurship, the challenges they confront, such as those related to measuring social impact and international scaling, as well as the actions they undertake to overcome them.
• Master's thesis

• Master's thesis 
• You have the opportunity to go on exchange or do an internship. If you are interested in these options, you can organize this yourself, in cooperation with the Department of Organization and Management Studies. 

Master's thesis 

• For your Master’s thesis, you investigate societal and organizational interventions that have been designed and/or implemented to address global social challenges/one or more Sustainable Development Goals.
• In the second block, you will take Master's seminars, during which you will develop important skills such as data analysis.
• During the second half of the Master's program, you will write your Master's thesis (24 ECTS), supervised by a member of the department Organization and Management Studies.

Thesis examples

• An institutional voids’ perspective on Entrepreneurial Support Organizations’ support of digital entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Collaborative learning for the emerging social circular economy: An institutional and organizational learning approach to enable institutional change in the fashion industry. 
  Combatting modern slavery: Cross-sectoral partnership diversity as predictor of effectiveness. 
• The institutionalisation of education for sustainable development through digital learning platforms.
• The potential of community organizing as a force against climate change: an empirical analysis.
• Tensions in a cross-sectoral partnership for the base of the pyramid: A case study in Brazil. 

• The program organizes community-building activities, such as the GMSI guest lecture series.  
• In the fourth block, you will have the opportunity to do a project in an emerging country, hosted by partner universities or accompanied by internships with international organizations. If you are interested in this, you can organize this yourself, in cooperation with the Department of Organization and Management Studies.