Entrepreneurial Management

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• the requirement for entrepreneurial management within established organisations;
• factors influencing entrepreneurial management;
• different forms of corporate venturing given specific organisational cultures, and structures.
• the need for continual strategic renewal of established organisations;

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 CD-ROMS and 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;
• evaluate the contribution of entrepreneurial management to sustainable competitive advantage;
• assess and appraise risk management in different organisational entrepreneurial contexts;
• identify a range of strategies to overcome barriers to entrepreneurial management.

• 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.

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.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Kirby (2003). Entrepreneurship. McGraw-Hill.

Burns (2016). Entrepreneurship and Small Business. Start up, growth and maturity. Palgrave Macmillan Limited.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External