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 Academic Year:
| 2013/4 |
| Owning Department/School:
| School of Management |
| Credits:
| 3 |
| Level:
| Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
| Period: |
Modular (no specific semester) Semester 2 |
| Assessment:
| CW100 |
| Supplementary Assessment: | Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites:
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| Description:
| Aims: Are entrepreneurs successful because they are special, or special because they are successful? In this course, we will unpack the entrepreneurial journey in order to develop conceptual and practical understanding of the nature, antecedents, consequences, and contingencies of acting in the face of an uncertain future. We will focus on the judgments and commitments that lie at various junctions of the journey as well as on the social processes that shape its ultimate outcomes. We will also explore the mechanisms that generate a distinct pattern of entrepreneurial outcomes, with a few big hits and a long tale of mediocre outcomes, as well as the implications of the impossibility to distinguish the two types of outcome beforehand. A number of different learning methods will be used to achieve these aims: group work, cases, video, exercises, and lecturing. Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit, the student should: * Evaluate the future as a range of probabilities; * Formulate and assess entrepreneurial judgment; * Analyse the complex nature of entrepreneurial outcomes and synthesise the processes that generate them; * Construct an emergent action strategy to harness the complexity and unpredictability of the future. Skills: Systems thinking - facilitated and assessed Critical thinking - facilitated and assessed Research skills - facilitated and assessed. Content: The unit will cover the following topics. Each topic will blend conceptual frameworks with practical cases. * The nature, context, and process of entrepreneurship * Prediction in entrepreneurial settings * Entrepreneurial judgment and action * Entrepreneurship as a complex system * Emergence and positive feedback in entrepreneurship * Levers for harnessing complexity * Elements of emergent action strategy. |
| Programme availability: |
MN50560 is Optional on the following programmes:School of Management
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