2014/2015
BA-BHAAO2124U Entrepreneurship 1
| English Title |
| Entrepreneurship 1 |
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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Bachelor |
| Duration |
One Semester |
| Course period |
Spring |
| Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc in Economics and Business
Administration
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| Course
coordinator |
- Asma Fattoum - Department of Innovation and Organizational
Economics (INO)
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| Main academic
disciplines |
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
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Last updated on
27-05-2015
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| Learning objectives |
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:
- List how entrepreneurship contribute and integrate itself into
the economic scene in which it operates
- Identify mechanisms that may influence the establishment of new
ventures
- Develop a thorough understanding of the entrepreneurial process
and its components
- Actively discuss how entrepreneurship is defined by drawing on
identification, development, and evaluation of business
opportunities
- List the contextual circumstances under which entrepreneurship
flourish
- Disentangle the entrepreneurial process and account for how
various steps interact
- In detail account for the elements of each of the
entrepreneurial process and how small business differs to that of
larger corporations
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| Examination |
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Entreprenørskab 1:
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| Exam ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Home assignment - written product |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual |
| Size of written product |
Max. 10 pages |
| Assignment type |
Essay |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date
and time. |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and external examiner |
| Exam period |
Summer Term |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
If the number of registered
candidates for the make-up examination/re-take examination warrants
that it may most appropriately be held as an oral examination, the
programme office will inform the students that the make-up
examination/re-take examination will be held as an oral examination
instead
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| Course content and
structure |
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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 methods |
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. |
| Expected literature |
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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.
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Last updated on
27-05-2015
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