International Entrepreneurship

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• entrepreneurial process in other countries/cultural settings, and managing a growth orientated global entrepreneurial venture, including a sound understanding of international expansion of a venture and pertinent sources of financing in international entrepreneurship;
• environmental factors (global and national) influencing international entrepreneurship;
• the paradigm of 'corporate social responsibility', its implications on strategy, policy and practices of global organisations in terms of new business venturing, usually in the form of social enterprises created through corporate community involvement.
• relational aspects of international entrepreneurship that comprise managing relationships with key stakeholders impacting upon any venture;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• use a wide range of information sources requiring the development of bibliographic skills including the use of CD-ROMS and the Internet;
• 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 and group workload;
• carry out team-work effectively.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically evaluate the 'corporate social responsibility' paradigm and its implications on the new venture development in global organisations.
• examine the entrepreneurship process and enterprises in different forms such as high technology ventures, social enterprises and family businesses from a cross-cultural perspective;
• identify all key stakeholders impacting upon any venture in international settings;
• diagnose global and national environments by evaluating characteristics of economy, society and policy making for entrepreneurship of all types, such as science and social entrepreneurship;

Global and national context for entrepreneurship and enterprise development; Enterprise support programmes in the US, Europe, UK and developing economies; Incubation programmes and implications on new venture development; Entrepreneurial strategy, process and operations in global ventures; Growth: Managing international expansion of ventures; Sources of financing in international ventures: Venture capitalists, corporate venture funds and business angels; International aspects of science entrepreneurship: High-growth technology ventures in the USA, Europe and developing economies; International aspects of social entrepreneurship: Social enterprises in the USA, Europe and developing economies; Innovation: International dimensions of innovation; Cross-cultural issues in global entrepreneurship: Assembling global resources and key HR issues in global ventures; International entrepreneurship in family businesses; Corporate social responsibility paradigm and implications on new venture development in global entrepreneurial organisations.

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures; activity-based seminars; case studies; independent study.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Hisrich, R. D. (2016). International Entrepreneurship: Starting, Developing and Managing a Global Venture. Thousand Oaks, CA and London.: Sage Publications,.

Hirisch, R.D; Peters, M.P and Shepherp, D.A (2020). Entrepreneurship. New York: McGraw Hill Education.

Johnson, G., Whittington, R., Scholes, K, Angwin, D; and Regner, P. (2019). Fundamentals of Strategies. Pearson.

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