COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Executive MBA

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ÖMÜR NECZAN ÖZMEN

Offered to

Executive MBA

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to define new work opportunities, prepare work plans with reference to these opportunities and investigate entrepreneurship as a process of building work plans. In addition, this course enables students to analyze innovation management along with strategic and operational viewpoints which leads to thinking at the specialist level in organizational contexts. Students are encouraged to create new ideas that cause entrepreneurial work to become commercially useful. In order to convert creative ideas into entrepreneurial work, one has to understand work environment and market, plan strategically and develop risk management skills. This
course introduces entrepreneurial work, entrepreneurial thinking, creative mindsets, seizing the opportunities, feasibility and market investigations, market and financial plans, area and capacity plans, regulative issues and risk analysis, innovation process and strategic tools. By that, students will be able to develop skills to gain analytic thinking while exploring the organizational growth and inter-personal relationship management.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Foss, N. J., Pedersen, T., Pyndt, J. & Schultz, M. (2012). Innovating Organization and Management: New Sources of Competitive Advantage. Cambridge University Press.
Chesbrough, H. (2006). Open Business Models: How to Thrive in the New Innovation Landscape. Harvard Business School Press.
Chesbourgh, H. (2003). Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology. Harvard Business School Press.
Barringer, B. R. and Ireland, D. 2010. Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures, 4th Edition. Prentice Hall.
Burns, Paul. 2010. Entrepreneurship and Small Business: Start-up, Growth and Maturity. 3rd Ed. Palgrave Macmillan
Hisrich, R. D., Peters, M. P. and Shepherd, D. A. 2008. Entrepreneurship, 7th ed., McGraw-Hill International Edition
Kuratko, D.F.. and Hodgetts, RM. 2009. Entrepreneurship: Theory, Process, Practice, 8th ed., South-Western.
Steyaert, C. ve Hjort, D., 2003, New Movements in Entrepreneurship, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures
2. Case-studies
3. Team-work
3. Reading

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. The learner will clearly define related concepts of entrepreneurship and innovation management processes.
2. The learner will identify the needs and the potential for innovation in the organizational context.
3. The learner will clearly define strategies of innovation development and change management process
4. The learner will identify and analyze the environmental conditions in order to set an innovation and change policy.
5. The learner will critically analyze challenges in innovation management and entrepreneurship.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Participation in class and preparation in advance are required.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes