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2025/2026  KAN-CGMAI3029U  Team and Organisation: Entrepreneurship in the Global Circular Economy

English Title
Team and Organisation: Entrepreneurship in the Global Circular Economy

Course information
Language English
Course ECTS 7.5 ECTS
Type Elective
Level Full Degree Master
Duration Summer
Start time of the course Summer
Timetable Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk
Min. participants 30
Max. participants 60
Study board
Study Board for Governance, Law, Accounting & Management Analytics
Programme Master of Science (MSc) in Economics and Business Administration - General Management and Analytics (GMA)
Course coordinator
  • Lisbeth Clausen - Department of Management, Society and Communication (MSC)
For academic questions related to the course, please contact course responsible Lisbeth Clausen (lcl.msc@cbs.dk)
Main academic disciplines
  • Management
  • Organisation
  • Organisational behaviour
Teaching methods
  • Face-to-face teaching
Last updated on 03/11/2025

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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:
  • Explain the challenges of entrepreneurial founders in the circular economy
  • Define and solve a research question concerning entrepreneurship in the circular economy with focus on organization, culture and competence.
  • Present and discuss the research question and findings in a clear and structured manner.
  • Explain and compare the organizational structure, and organizational behavior theories and models presented in the course.
  • Appropriately select theories and models in a framework to be applied to the practical case(s) (provided in the course) E.g. apply theories and models to analyse the practical elements of entrepreneurial business in the circular economy in a global comparative perspective.
  • Discuss personal team learnings in light of course theory.
Course prerequisites
Completed Bachelor degree or equivalent. Basic knowledge about organisational behaviour.
Examination
Team and Organisation: Entrepreneurship in the Global Circular Economy:
Exam ECTS 7.5
Examination form Home assignment - written product
Individual or group exam Individual exam
Size of written product Max. 10 pages
Assignment type Project
Release of assignment The Assignment is released in Digital Exam (DE) at exam start
Duration Written product to be submitted on specified date and time.
Grading scale 7-point grading scale
Examiner(s) One internal examiner
Exam period Summer, The exam assignment is written in parallel with the course
Make-up exam/re-exam
Same examination form as the ordinary exam
Retake exam: 72-hour home project assignment, max. 10 pages, new exam question.
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..
Course content, structure and pedagogical approach
The aim of this course is to discuss entrepreneurship with a vision for a circular economy where the focus of your product is to rethink, refuse, re-use and recycle? This course introduces the key elements of entrepreneurship including founders’ ideas, background (ecosystem), their product or service (licenses), team organization and business model, stakeholder investment, policy and community values, role models and scaling prospects (business and culture). The course further provides students with the analytical concepts and practical tools that will enable them to realize their circular vision in entrepreneurship in various organizational and cultural contexts. Students will become experts in individual founder strategies through CASE work. The countries of comparisons are Columbia, the US, Senegal, Lebanon, Denmark, Indonesia and Japan.  
Each session will focus on the application of a specific model for analysis in relation to a founder case story. Throughout the course students will also be challenged to apply and reflect on personal international experience about team work and knowledge about entrepreneurial enterprise.
 
Note: Students will be assigned a team first day in class and work with this team throughout the course.
 

 

Introduction 
Global entrepreneur research trends
The entrepreneurial model and basic concepts
1. Japan - recycling 
2. Bali - textiles preserving artisan craft 
3. Indonesia - placstic clean-ups and recycling
4. Lebanon - opportunity and reciliense 
5. Denmark - recycling spent grain from beer brewing
6. Denmark - art and activism 
7. Senegal - the 'African Zara'
8. Senegal - Natural cosmetics
9. USA - Book business and Lakota Language
10. Columbia - textiles and tourism 
Recapture and class take-aways
 
 
Research-based teaching
CBS’ programmes and teaching are research-based. The following types of research-based knowledge and research-like activities are included in this course:
Research-based knowledge
  • New theory
  • Teacher’s own research
  • Models
Research-like activities
  • Development of research questions
  • Discussion, critical reflection, modelling
  • Peer review including Peer-to-peer
  • Activities that contribute to new or existing research projects
Description of the teaching methods
The course is a combination of class room lectures and discussions of reading material (one/two articles/chapters per session) in relation to the assigned CASE companies. During class sessions students will contribute in interactive sessions on behalf of entrepreneurial CASE company. Students become corporate case experts. The ten entrepreneurial cases are listed below. Team work activities are assigned in each session. Field work in Copenhagen is part of the engagement. Case work in teams enhances students' learning and collaboration capabilities and is mandatory.
Feedback during the teaching period
Feedback activity and group deliveries take place in each session. The research question will be designed as the course progresses.
The CBS Nordic Nine principles are incorporated in course through transformative group learning activities. The class sessions and themes concern founder idea, setting the team, leadership, diversity, power, conflict, motivation, organisational design, innovation, sustainability, work-life balance, circularity and the tripple bottom line, responsible management and stakeholder management. We will critically investigate the values of communities and societies as well as the ecosystem of the seven different countries of the founders of the entrepreneurial enterprises.

The Nordic Nines of this course are:
# 1 You have deep business knowledge placed in a broad context
# 5 You understand ethical dilemmas and have the leadership values to overcome them
# 6 You are critical when thinking and constructive when collaborating
# 9 You create value from global connections for local communities
Student workload
Precourse activity 20 hours
Classroom attendance - team collaboration 30 hours
Preparation 129 hours
Feedback activity 7 hours
Examination 20 hours
Further Information

6-week course.

 

Precourse activity: The course coordinator uploads precourse activity on Canvas at the end of May. It is expected that students participate as it will be included in the final exam, but the assignment is without independent assessment and grading.

 

 

This course is based on team work in each session. Deliveries in collaboration with your team following each session are mandatory.

 
Expected literature

Indicative literature:

Champoux, Joseph, E. (2017). Organizational Behavior: Integrating Individuals, Groups and Organizations (5th Edition). Routledge. A few chapters 
 
CASE BOOK: Clausen, Lisbeth (2025) Women Entrepreneurs in the Circular Economy: Global Experiences. Emerald Publishihng DOI 240 pages. LINK TBA
 
Katzenbach, Jon R. and Smith, Douglas K. (2005) Organizational culture. The Discipline of Teams. Harvard Business Review. July–August
 
Mintzberg, Henry and Van den Heyden, Ludo (1999). Organigraphs: Drawing How Companies Really Work Harvard Business Review.  September–October Issue
 
Ollier-Malaterre, Arianne and Foucreault, Annie. Cross-National Work-Life Research: Cultural and Structural Impact for Individuals and Organizations. Journal of Management. Vol. 432 No 1 January, 2017 11-136: 115
 
Pentland, Alex. (2012) The New Science of Building Great Teams. Harvard Business Review. April p. 60-70
 
Stahl, G. K., Maznevski, M. L., Voigt, A., & Jonsen, K. (2010). Unraveling the effects of cultural diversity in teams: A meta-analysis of research on multicultural work groups. Journal of International Business Studies, 41, 690–709.

 

Mirela Panait, Eglantina Hysa, Lukman Raimi, Alba Kruja, Antonio Rodriguez; Guest editorial: Circular economy and entrepreneurship in emerging economies: opportunities and challenges. Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies 30 November 2022; 14 (5): 673–677. https:/​/​doi.org/​10.1108/​JEEE-10-2022-487

 

Byrne, J., Fattoum, S., & Diaz Garcia, M. C. (2019). Role models and women entrepreneurs: Entrepreneurial superwoman has her say. Journal of Small Business Management, 57(1), 154-184.

 

Futagami, S., & Helms, M. M. (2009). Emerging female entrepreneurship in Japan: A case study of Digimom workers. Thunderbird International Business Review, 51(1), 71-85.

 

Teece, D. J. (2010). Business models, business strategy and innovation. Long range planning, 43(2-3), 172-194.


Addition:

A few readings are TBA and will be uploaded on CANVAS at course start.
Last updated on 03/11/2025