Entrepreneurship and Organizational Change

Aim

Knowledge and understanding: After having successfully completed the course the student should, on an advanced level, be able to: - Synthesize knowledge about entrepreneurship and organizational change gained through reading, discussions, experiences and cases, and express it orally and in writing - Critically and independently discuss classic and contemporary research on entrepreneurship and its connection to organizational change - Describe critical issues within the theoretical field of entrepreneurship and organizational change, and position them in relation to each other, and to related fields - Understand and discuss the prerequisites for organizational change through entrepreneurship in private as well as public and non-profit contexts - Understand and discuss the prerequisites for organizational change through entrepreneurship in different regions of the world, as well as the role of globalization Skills and abilities: After having successfully completed the course the student should, on an advanced level, be able to: - Analyze complex entrepreneurial processes in various context, identify problems and discuss solutions - Critically and independently discuss the discourse on entrepreneurship and change Values and attitudes: After having successfully completed the course the student should have developed a critical and reflective attitude towards what they read and experienced within the fields of entrepreneurship and organizational change.

Content

The aim of the course is to deepen and widen the student’s knowledge and understanding about entrepreneurship and it’s role for organizational change. Students will learn about organizational perspectives on entrepreneurship, as well as entrepreneurship perspectives on organizations. Classic as well as contemporary views on entrepreneurship and organizational change are elaborated in the course, as well as organizational change and entrepreneurship in different sectoral and national contexts. We will go into depth in for example the following areas; - Entrepreneurship as means and ends for organizational and structural change in western economies and on emerging markets in the global economy. - The societal construction of entrepreneurship vs diversity and change in organizations. - Intrapreneurship and Employee-Driven-Innovation (EDI) vs managed change. - Methodologies for understanding and supporting entrepreneurship and organizational change on different levels of analysis.