vcc.ca
MGMT 2015: Entrepreneurship
Effective date
September 2022
Department
Business Mgmt PD Diploma
School
Hospitality, Food Studies and Applied Business
Description
This course introduces students to entrepreneurship and innovation. This course employs a clear and informative how-to-approach to the challenging process of designing, launching and running a new business in today's dynamic business environment. This course also explores the issues, and implications of Social Entrepreneurship and the innovative strategies used by Indigenous entrepreneurs.
Credits
3.0
Year of study
2nd Year Post-secondary
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe eight major domains of a company's external environment
- Contrast the differences between management and entrepreneurship
- Develop a model for corporate entrepreneurship
- Express appreciation for the entrepreneurial process in both a private enterprise and nonprofit context
- Define the areas in which people are creative at work, and plan ways to cultivate these characteristics in the work environment
- Relate corporate entrepreneurship to corporate strategy and success
- Explain how to structure a company for entrepreneurship
- Develop a vision of an entrepreneurial culture for an organization
- Explain the constraints on entrepreneurial performance, and the characteristics of leading entrepreneurial organizations
- Describe the innovative strategies used by Indigenous entrepreneurs
- Describe methods to assess, control, and sustain entrepreneurial performance
- Examine diverse approaches to Social Entrepreneurship, and discuss the current opportunities, challenges and implications
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
None
Hours
Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 45
Total Hours: 45
Total Hours: 45
Instructional Strategies
Project-based learning, case studies, individual work
Grading System
Letter Grade (A-F)
Passing grade
D (50%)
Evaluation Plan
|
Type |
Percentage |
Assessment activity |
|
Participation |
5 |
|
|
Midterm Exam |
20 |
|
|
Final Exam |
20 |
|
|
Assignments |
10 |
|
|
Project |
10 |
Social Entrepreneurship briefing paper |
|
Project |
35 |
Entrepreneurial culture project |
Course topics
- 1. The new entrepreneurial imperative 2. The unique nature of corporate entrepreneurship 3. Levels of entrepreneurship in organizations and entrepreneurial intensity 4. The forms of corporate entrepreneurship 5. Entrepreneurship in other contexts: nonprofit and government organizations 6. Human resources in the entrepreneurial organization: the creative individual 7. Human resources in the entrepreneurial organization: the organizational perspective 8. Corporate strategy and entrepreneurship 9. Structuring the company for entrepreneurship 10. Developing an entrepreneurial culture 11. Constraints on entrepreneurial performance 12. Leading the entrepreneurial organization 13. Assessing corporate entrepreneurial performance 14. Indigenous entrepreneurship 15. Control and entrepreneurial activity 16. Sustaining entrepreneurial performance 17. Social entrepreneurship
Notes:
- Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
- Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/. - To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.