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Entrepreneurship & Family Business (VT IME)

Entrepreneurship & Family Business (VT IME)

Module Coordinator/Lecturers
Study Programmes
Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration
Project Description
  • Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Family Firm Research
  • New venture creation
  • SME management
  • Entrepreneurial orientation
  • Entrepreneurial mindset
  • Opportunity recognition
  • Exploration vs. exploitation
  • Building Blocks of "Corporate Entrepreneurship" (definitions, general frameworks, differences between Corporate Entrepreneurship and Start-Up Entrepreneurship, process of Corporate Entrepreneurship, forms of Corporate Entrepreneurship)
  • Entrepreneurial behavior in family firms
Learning Outcomes The students...
Professional Competence
  • know the relevant building blocks of Entrepreneurship & Family Firm Research, Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management and their instruments
  • know how to measure Corporate Entrepreneurship related to its performance advantages
  • know the concepts on how to create a company with an entrepreneurial spirit
  • understand the most important influencing factors for taking entrepreneurial decisions in either new or established enterprises, as well as in family firms
Methodological Competence
  • describe the fundamental aspects of start-up compared to corporate entrepreneurship
  • define and interpret the prerequisites of these strategies
  • know how to read and understand academic texts in the field
  • know how to interpret the results of empirical research in the field
Social Competence
  • perceive and prescind thoughts and arguments from fellow students during class discussions
Personal Competence
  • learn to communicate openly within the large audience
  • develop a mindset of proactivity, curiosity and reflection ability
Requirements (formal)
Enrollment from WS23/24
These admission requirements:
  • To register for modules in the specialization, the modules Statistics, Business Mathematics, and English I must have been successfully completed.
  • In addition, the module Strategic Management must have been successfully completed in order to register for the IME specialization.

Enrollment before WS23/24
Either the above admission requirements or:
  • To register for modules in the specialization, modules worth at least 45 ECTS credits from the first year of study and the module English I must have been successfully completed.
  • Elective courses are not taken into account at all for these regulations.
Module number:
6110799
Semester:
SS 26
ECTS Credits:
6
Courses:
56 L / 42 h
Self-study:
138 h
Language:
English
Scheduled Semester:
4