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Entrepreneurship & Family Business (VT IME) - Lecture

Entrepreneurship & Family Business (VT IME) - Lecture

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
Teaching Method
(Interactive) Lectures
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 audiencedevelop a mindset of proactivity, curiosity and reflection ability
Assessment Methods
  • Final Exam
Module number:
6110866
Courses:
28 L / 21 h
Self-study:
69 h
Scheduled Semester:
4