30263 - ORGANIZING ENTREPRENEURSHIP
CLEAM - CLEF - CLEACC - BESS-CLES - WBB - BIEF - BIEM
Department of Management and Technology
Course taught in English
Insegnamento riservato agli studenti in scambio (incoming)
Go to class group/s: 31
CLEAM (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - CLEF (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - CLEACC (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - BESS-CLES (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - WBB (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - BIEF (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10) - BIEM (6 credits - I sem. - OP | SECS-P/10)
Course Objectives
Through active case discussions and simulations, the course provides models aimed at forming competence on how to formulate and organize new economic projects, by constituting new entrepreneurial firms; and on how infusing entrepreneurship and constituting entrepreneural units within existing firms. Taking an organizational perspective, the course aims at improving the students' capacity of effective, innovative decision-making and relational behaviors under uncertainty, and knowledge of the most promising organizational and governance practices for innovation and entrepreneurship.
Course Content Summary
- Theories and sources of entrepreneurship.
- Discovering opportunities and entrepreneurial decision making.
- Attracting and committing human and financial resources to new projects.
- Organization and governance practices for entrepreneurial firms.
- Internal and networked growth strategies.
- Organizing environments for entrepreneurship and innovation (Poles, Parks, Incubators, RIS, Districts etc).
- Elements of Corporate entrepreneurship.
Detailed Description of Assessment Methods
For attending students:- Class activities and assignments (20 points).
- Entrepreneurial project to be prepared in teams of max 3 members, to be presented at the end of the course (in written and pitch-like form) (10 points, including peer evaluation).
- Final test on the adopted books and readings. Mix of definitional and applied questions; structured-interview-like responses.
Textbooks
- A. GRANDORI, L. GAILLARD, Organizing Entrepreneurship, Routledge, 2011.
Prerequisites
No formal requisite. Being offered as a 3rd year optional course it is assumed that the majority of students have a basic preparation in organization and management.
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