2017/2018
BA-BINBO3000U Entrepreneurship and Global Strategy
| English Title |
| Entrepreneurship and Global
Strategy |
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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Bachelor |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Start time of the course |
First Quarter, Autumn |
| Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc in International
Business
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| Course
coordinator |
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| Main academic
disciplines |
- Globalization and international business
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Last updated on
13-12-2017
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| Learning objectives |
To achieve the grade 12, students should meet the
following learning objectives with no or only minor mistakes or
errors: After having completed the course the students should be
able to:
- synthesize the development of different capitalist societies
based on the required reading
- explain and compare different theoretical frameworks and apply
them to cases
- analyze case studies by breaking up the sum of information into
constituent parts, identify relevant aspects of the situation and
study the relationship of the parts to the whole; formulate
questions applying relevant theory
- compare different ways how businesses and entrepreneurs
interact with their political and cultural context
- evaluate dilemma situations of entrepreneurs, hypothesize about
different courses of action and their outcome
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| Examination |
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Entrepreneurship and Global Strategy:
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| Exam
ECTS |
7,5 |
| Examination form |
Written sit-in exam on CBS'
computers |
| Individual or group exam |
Individual exam |
| Assignment type |
Multiple choice AND written assignment |
| Duration |
4 hours |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
One internal examiner |
| Exam period |
Autumn and Winter, the regular exam takes place
in October. The make-up and re-examination takes place in
January. |
| Aids |
Limited aids, see the list below:
The student is allowed to bring - Language dictionaries in paper format
At all written
sit-in exams the student has access to the basic IT application
package (Microsoft Office (minus Excel), digital pen and paper,
7-zip file manager, Adobe Acrobat, Texlive, VLC player, Windows
Media Player). PLEASE NOTE: Students are not allowed to communicate
with others during the exam :
Read more about exam aids and IT application
packages here |
| 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.
The Make-up and Re-examination takes
place according to the same rules as the regular
exam.
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| Course content and structure |
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The course gives a framework for understanding the role of
entrepreneurs in shaping global capitalism over the last two
centuries. Through a combination of lectures and case study
discussions the students will be introduced to the entrepreneurial
process and strategic decision-making. Placing business in a
broad political, economic and cultural context, the course explores
the challenging decisions and ethical dilemmas entrepreneurs have
faced in different global and historical settings.
Students will probe analytical tools to identify and make sense of
relevant context factors and will apply basic strategy
frameworks. Four major themes will be discussed in the course: (i)
entrepreneurial processes; (ii) varieties of ownership and
governance structures in international business; (iii) the role of
entrepreneurs in society; and (iv) waves of international
integration/disintegration and their consequences for
global buiness.
Theory: The course will introduce theories of
entrepreneurship (Schumpeter, Baumol) as well as strategy
frameworks (5 Forces, Generic Competitive Strategies, Blue Ocean
Strategy.)
Research-Based Teaching: The course includes
discussions of entrepreneurial theory and introduces students to
the challenges for global business in the context of economic
nationalism based on the lecturer's recent
research.
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| Teaching methods |
| The course is based on a combination of lectures,
case-based discussions in smaller groups and exercises. |
| Feedback during the teaching period |
Office hours.
Feedback on case discussions in video format.
Exam feedback: expectation horizon, best practice answer and
frequent mistakes. |
| Student workload |
| Lecture hours |
20 hours |
| Workshop/exercises |
22 hours |
| Preparation Lectures |
70 hours |
| Preparation Case-Study Exercises |
90 hours |
| Examination |
4 hours |
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| Expected literature |
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Compulsory reading:
Compendium
Harvard Business School cases
Recommended further reading:
Jones, G. 2005. Multinationals and Global Capitalism: From
the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Oxford, New York:
Oxford University Press.
Ghemawat, P. 2017. The Laws of Globalization and Business
Applications. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University
Press.
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Last updated on
13-12-2017
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