2013/2014 BA-HAENT1 Entrepreneurship 1
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Entrepreneurship 1 |
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Language | English |
Exam ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Mandatory |
Level | Bachelor |
Duration | One Semester |
Time Table | Please see course schedule at e-Campus |
Study board |
Study Board for BSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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Last updated on 11-09-2013 |
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The main objective of this course is
to help students acquire the knowledge and spirit for
entrepreneurship. It aims at furnishing students a practical
detailed roadmap that defines the entrepreneurial process, which
enables them to:
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Aim of the course
Entrepreneurship is one of the most consequential divers and activities in any given society. It contributes with plentiful in shaping the structure, size, dynamics and workings of an economy. This course aims at illustrating how entrepreneurship impacts an economy and disentangle the mechanisms through which entrepreneurship has an impact. By doing so, the course work towards furnishing students with an understanding of entrepreneurship in general and conveying an appreciation of the elements that defines entrepreneurship and therefore are pre-requisites for entrepreneurial venturing. The course aspires to unravel the different maneuvers that an entrepreneur undertakes when venturing a new organization. This is achieved by organizing the entrepreneurial process into formalized steps of conduct. By doing so, the course also acts as an overall umbrella that ties the different courses of the entire program together. Content The course considers how macro and meso economic environments interact with entrepreneurial venturing and entrepreneurial tendencies. It entails literature and case based learning. The course scrutinizes how entrepreneurial firms emerge and how they are established. It covers details on the strategic considerations given the liabilities of being a newly established organization. It relates contextual settings to resource limitations and resource considerations. And it seeks to convey an understanding of some of the steps of setting up a new firm. The content of this course is further supported with guest speakers. Progression This course is thought of as a foundation for the remaining courses in entrepreneurship by bestowing definitions and an understanding of the entire entrepreneurial process |
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Teaching style
Lectures are organized as interactive two‐way communicative sessions in which students critically contribute to the content of the course. It aims at coupling theoretical content with case based learning in which students are encouraged to assess how given cases contribute to our understanding of the different mechanisms entrepreneurship involves. There will be several guest speakers during the course. |
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Expected literature | |||||||||||||||||||||
Core reading:
Storey, D.J. and Greene,F.J. "Small Business and Entrepreneurship." JFT Prentice Hall (2010) Additional literature: Baumol, William J. "Entrepreneurship: Productive, unproductive, and destructive." Journal of political economy (1990): 893-921. Bhide, A. "The questions every entrepreneur must answer” Harvard Business Review, November-December (1996):120‐130. Shane, Scott, and Sankaran Venkataraman. “The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research." Academy of Management Review 25, no. 1 (2000): 217‐226. Supplementary materials will be distributed by instructor in class. |
Last updated on
11-09-2013