Module overview
The aim of the course unit is to introduce students to the nature of entrepreneurship on a corporate level. You will explore the unique challenges that entrepreneurial managers face within established corporations and examine the role of diverse organizational cultures and structures for the management of innovation and creativity. The unit will effectively address the need to exercise rational managerial judgment in an uncertain and complex business landscape.
Linked modules
Pre Requisites: MANG1003 or MANG1020 or MANG1021
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- communicate effectively, in both oral and written form, using and justifying argument within reports, presentations and debates.
- plan and control effectively for successful completion of a personal workload;
- use a wide range of information sources requiring the development of bibliographic skills including the use of the Internet;
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- discuss what is meant by entrepreneurial management;
- assess and appraise risk management in different organisational entrepreneurial contexts;
- identify a range of strategies to overcome barriers to entrepreneurial management.
- evaluate the contribution of entrepreneurial management to sustainable competitive advantage;
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the need for continual strategic renewal of established organisations;
- different forms of corporate venturing given specific organisational cultures, and structures.
- factors influencing entrepreneurial management;
- the requirement for entrepreneurial management within established organisations;
Syllabus
- The nature of entrepreneurial management.
- The Nature of Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial Behaviour
- Individual-Opportunities & Nexus
- The social dimension of Entrepreneurship
- Creativity, Innovation and the architecture of the entrepreneurial organization
- Developing strategies for growth.
- Entrepreneurship in the organizational context
- Organisational culture and its relationship to strategic renewal processes.
- Leadership and management for entrepreneurial and corporate venturing.
- Overcoming barriers to corporate entrepreneurship.
- Structured revision.
- Open revision.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
The teaching methods are primarily the lecture and seminar. Student participation, small group activities, short case studies and other teaching methods will be integrated in the lectures as warranted. Lectures will be supported by activity-based seminars and will include the use of videos, case studies, and guest speakers.
Learning activities include:
Lectures, activity-based seminars, case studies, private study and coursework.
Type | Hours |
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Lecture | 24 |
Revision | 25 |
Completion of assessment task | 30 |
Follow-up work | 10 |
Wider reading or practice | 40 |
Preparation for scheduled sessions | 10 |
Tutorial | 11 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Kirby (2003). Entrepreneurship. McGraw-Hill.
Burns (2016). Entrepreneurship and Small Business. Start up, growth and maturity. Palgrave Macmillan Limited.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Examination Written assessment In-class formative opportunitiesSummative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Examination | 70% |
Group presentation | 30% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Examination | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Examination | 70% |
Written assessment | 30% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External