Social and Public Entrepreneurship
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Teaching Staff
Module Convenor
Prof. dr hab. Monika Kostera, Room 543 Mill Hill Lane, (please contact by email first)
Aims
Module Aims:
- This module develops comprehensive understanding of how mid-to-large sized firms can be designed, organised and managed to establish corporate entrepreneurship, with careful scrutiny of the complexities involved.
- To provide students with knowledge, and develop their understanding of, the multi-level, integrated nature of corporate entrepreneurship.
- To introduce students to the historical and present day context for corporate entrepreneurship.
- To provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the various inputs, processes, boundary conditions and forms of corporate entrepreneurship by way of a detailed review and critique of its theoretical frameworks.
- To develop in-depth knowledge and appreciation of how to organise an internal environment conducive to corporate entrepreneurship.
- To develop an understanding of the human aspect of corporate entrepreneurship.
- To develop an understanding of the organizational processes and activities that impact on corporate entrepreneurship.
- To comprehend organisational, agency and ownership barriers to successful corporate entrepreneurship.
- To evaluate ways to profitably realise investments in corporate entrepreneurship.
- An on-going review of the conceptual and empirical work relating to the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and various organizational outcomes.
- An international element will permeate the module.
Key concepts
Entrepreneurship: business, social, political, intellectual; learning, e-tale; organizational hero/-ine
Classes and Location
Durham and Queens Campus.
Lectures (Q:D004; D:EH113) and seminars.
Programme Term 1 (Michaelmas)
Lectures:
Teaching week |
Date |
Content |
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Contextualizing and Problematizing Corporate Entrepreneurship: |
12 |
13-Oct-16 Q 14-Oct-16 D |
Lecture 1: Organizing and organizations: how can they be controlled/ developed. What is entrepreneurship? Who is the entrepreneur? Managers vs entrepreneurs. Is corporate entrepreneurship possible? |
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The Cultural Context of Entrepreneuring: |
13 |
20-Oct-16 Q 21-Oct-16 D |
Lecture 2: Entrepreneurship through times: ideas and notions. The cultural context of entrepreneurship. |
14 |
27-Oct-16 Q 28-Oct-16 D |
Lecture 3: Entrepreneurship as creativity. The e-tale. |
15 |
03-Nov-16 Q 04-Nov-16 D |
Lecture 4: The entrepreneur as organizational hero. |
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Aspects and Vectors of Entrepreneurship : |
16 |
10-Nov-16 Q 11-Nov-16 D |
Lecture 5: Types of entrepreneurship: Business entrepreneurship. How does it relate to corporate settings? |
17 |
17-Nov-16 Q 18-Nov-16 D |
Lecture 6: Types of entrepreneurship: Social entrepreneurship. How does it relate to corporate settings? |
18 |
24-Nov-16 Q 15-Oct-16 D |
Lecture 7: Types of entrepreneurship: Political entrepreneurship. How does it relate to corporate settings?. |
19 |
01-Dec-16 Q 12-Dec-16 D |
Lecture 8: Types of entrepreneurship: Intellectual entrepreneurship. How does it relate to corporate settings?. |
20 |
08-Dec-16 Q 09-Dec-16 D |
Lecture 9: Corporations and entrepreneuring: Creating heterotopias. |
21 |
15-Dec-16 Q 16-Dec-16 D |
Lecture 10: Entrepreneurship for change. Organizations in the mutual economy. |
WINTER BREAK
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Seminars:
Teaching week |
Date |
Seminar |
14 |
25-Oct-16 D 27-Oct-16 Q |
Seminar 1 - Learning organizing from structure building entrepreneur: Meet Ingvar Kamprad and IKEA Miriam Salzer-Morling, on IKEA culture Miriam Salzer-Morling, on IKEA identity |
16 |
08-Mov-16 D 10-Nov-16 Q |
Seminar 2 - Learning organizing from anti-corporate entrepreneurs: The Margines Cooperative Interview citations (field research by Monika Kostera) |
18 |
22-Nov-16 D 24-Nov-16 Q |
Seminar 3 - Learning organizing from idealistic entrepreneurs: VegeCity |
20 |
06-12-16 D 08-Dec-16 Q |
Seminar 4 - Learning organizing from entrepreneurial dreamers: The Living Museum |
WINTER BREAK
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Assessment
Examination is by Written Examination comprising 100% of the Summative Assessment.
Formative Assessment
You are required to develop a 1000-word written assignment in the form of a discursive essay on a task comparable to the summative assessment. Your task is to:
Present and critically/ reflexively assess an entrepreneur in the context of her/ his firm. Consider the question whether her/ his style of entrepreneurship could be adopted in big corporate settings: structures, strategies, institutions (public or private sector ownership). You are welcome to write the assessment in the style of the e-tale, or as a more conventional annotated case study.
- If you choose the creative form of an E-Tale, you do not need to follow an academic structure! Write creatively, but please include definitions of the main 2-4 concepts you will be using (certainly entrepreneurship, perhaps also organization, etc) and write a form of very brief conclusions, what corporations can learn from your case.
- If you choose traditional case study form, use the format and structure in my slides (below) to best make your argument. You do not need to use everything, just the elements that will help you to make a convincing and coherent case study argument (but please remember that a case study cannot be abstract, it has to be close to practice).
- For both alteratives: you need to refer to the sources where your case material comes from (own research? experience? internet - where? literature - which? give complete reference). Length: c:a 1000 words
Looking forward to reading your essays!
Deadline: 25th November 2016.
Please note: Students are required to submit the formative assignments via the post box in the Undergraduate Reception area by 3pm on the date of submission.
Please note that work submitted within 5 working days after the deadline would normally be capped at the pass mark of 40. Work submitted after 5 working days after the deadline would be awarded a mark of zero. Students who submit late will be required to complete a late submission form. Module leaders will decide whether or not to accept the late submission of formative work.
Assessment Criteria
Performance in the formative and summative assessments is judged against the following criteria:
. Relevance to question(s)
. Organisation, structure and presentation
. Depth of understanding
. Analysis and discussion
. Use of sources and referencing
. Overall conclusions.
Readings
- Steyaert, Chris and Daniel Hjorth (2006) Entrepreneurship as Social Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Additional Recommended Readings
- Hjorth, Daniel (2005) “Organizational entrepreneurship: With de Certau of creating heterotopias (or spaces to play), Journal of Management Inquiry, 14(4), 386-398.
- Hjorth, Daniel and Monika Kostera (2007) (eds) Entrepreneurship and the Experience Economy. Copenhagen Business School, Press.
- Hjorth, Daniel and Chris Steyaert (2004) (eds) Narrative and Discoursive Approaches in Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Johannisson, Bengt (2011) “Towards a practice theory of entrepreneuring”, Small Business Economics, 36, 135-150.
- Kostera, Monika (2012) Organizations and Archetypes. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Kostera, Monika (2014) Occupy Management! Inspirations and ideas for self-organization and self-management. London: Routledge.
- Kwiatkowski, Stefan (2004) “Social and intellectual dimensions of entrepreneurship”, Higher Education in Europe, 29(2), 205-220.
- Steyaert, Chris and Daniel Hjorth (2006) Entrepreneurship as Social Change. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Other resources - The Entrepreneurship Platform
Contact
Consultation hours:
Queens D339a Thursdays between 4pm and 5pm, please Email me first.
Durham 543 at Mill Hill Lane Fridays between 2pm and 3pm, Please Email me first.