Course

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Advanced study course in business administration.

Via the course, students gain insight into the interplay between leadership and entrepreneurship. The course focuses on starting and running one’s own business, as well as on entrepreneurship in existing companies. The course provides students with insights into entrepreneurial leadership as a field that exists between two different domains, namely leadership as an entrepreneurial activity and entrepreneurship as a leadership process. The course also provides students with methods for managing and organising innovative opportunities in both new and existing companies and in both a private and public sector organisational context. The course also enables students to analyse entrepreneurial issues and develop relevant management actions to contribute to the decision-making process when starting their own business or solving tasks in an existing one.

The course focuses on the following activities:

Reflect on the challenges in the interaction between entrepreneurship and leadership, both procedurally and contextually.

Select, justify, and reflect on issues, methodological and theoretical approaches, and relevant literature in the field based on entrepreneurship and in various leadership contexts in new or established organizations, respectively.

Justify the relevance of selected empirical data and cases concerning entrepreneurial leadership in practice.

Analyze and argue for applying entrepreneurial leadership in different situations and contexts.

Communicate leadership-relevant knowledge about theory and practice in entrepreneurial leadership.

The course consists of lessons of 2-4 hours each. The academic field of the elective course is illuminated through lectures based on selected books, articles, cases, etc., with dialogues and academic discussions on the topics of the lesson either in small groups or in plenary on the course.

Based on a selected business or organization, each student identifies a topic related to entrepreneurial leadership in a specific context or situation, collects data, selects appropriate theory, analyzes the topic, and drafts a paper on the selected topic.

At the course, the students present a draft of the papers to their fellow students and receive feedback from an opponent, with a subsequent plenary discussion before submitting a finished paper for the oral exam. During the course, students must make at least one presentation of a theoretical framework of understanding, present a draft paper based on the student's data and analyses, act as an opponent to draft papers produced by one or more fellow students.

Clark, C. M., Harrison, C., and Stephen Gibb (2019), Developing a Conceptual Framework of Entrepreneurial Leadership: A Systematic Literature Review and Thematic Analysis, International Review of Entrepreneurship, 17 (3), pp. 347-384

Jørn Kjølseth Møller, Entrepreneurial Leadership_RED3_rapport_A4_UK_final version_May 2023.pdf (under sproglig revision og vil foreligge til de studerende ved kursusstart).

The course is 5 ECTS and consists of 135 working hours per student. This includes all activities such as reading, preparation, attendance, presentations and paper writing.

The expected work is distributed as follows: Courses: 10 lessons of 2 hours, a total of 20 teaching hours. Reading and preparation for the teaching sessions: 63 hours (incl. Searching and reading scientific articles for paper writing) Paper writing: 37 hours Oral exam (including preparation): 15

Campus

The course is a part of the study board's evaluation rotation this semester. The students will be asked to evaluate mid-term and by the end of the course (a survey) according to the evaluation practice of the study board.

Informationer findes på Moodle.

• Students acquire knowledge and insight into theories of entrepreneurial leadership, including as a fusion of leadership and entrepreneurial perspectives on the organisation of innovative opportunities in new and existing companies. Students also gain an understanding of the alterations in management activities and the changing management competency requirements that arise when the task shifts from starting up a new activity to actually running, developing and scaling up the company. Students furthermore learn to develop, evaluate and analyse decision proposals for the organisation and management of new opportunities in entrepreneurial companies. Finally, students acquire the skills to perceive and assess the implications of new knowledge, and to reflect on the relevance and usefulness of theories and tools in various situations.

Demonstrate insight into entrepreneurial leadership as a field.

Select, justify, and reflect on selected issues, methodological and theoretical approaches, as well as relevant literature based on entrepreneurship and leadership.

Justify the choice of empirical data and cases concerning entrepreneurial leadership in practice

Analyze and argue for the application of entrepreneurial leadership in different situations and contexts.

Communicate in writing academically, as well as to stakeholders, as well as engage in oral dialogue and discussion.