Entrepreneurship: Multiple Perspectives

Aims of the course

Students will:
- Identify the research areas addressed in the current entrepreneurship literature.
- Utilize key entrepreneurship concepts and identify connections between them. Identify approaches used in the development of entrepreneurship theory.
- Analyze the process of exploring and exploiting entrepreneurial opportunities.
- Exhibit knowledge of principles of entrepreneurial mindset. Understand behavioral, cognitive and psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs.
- Recognize and analyze entrepreneurial resources and the non-financial capital of the entrepreneur.
- Investigate the specifics of start-up entrepreneurship, dynamic entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, social entrepreneurship and family firms.
- Discover the role of entrepreneurship in the economy. Review the arguments for public policy support of entrepreneurship.

Course syllabus

- The development of a theory of entrepreneurship.
- Measurement of an entrepreneurial activity.
- Opportunity exploration and exploitation.
- Entrepreneur: Why some individuals and not others explore and exploit opportunities. Entrepreneurial motives. Cognitive perspective.
- Entrepreneurial teams.
- Non-financial capital of the entrepreneur (social and psychological capital, entrepreneurial networks).
- Entrepreneurial resources. Resource-based view, bootstrapping, bricolage.
- Entrepreneurship vs. management. Start-up entrepreneurship. Dynamic entrepreneurship. Intrapreneurship.
- Social entrepreneurship.
- Family firms.
- The relevance of context for entrepreneurial activity. Industry differences.
- Entrepreneurship policy.
- Entrepreneurial failure.

Course director(s)

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