SME's and Entrepreneurship

Description

The course ‘SMEs & Entrepreneurship’ teaches students to translate general management theories and practices to the specific context of SMEs, startups and family businesses. We focus on the main challenges of SMEs, startups and family businesses and formulate solutions taking into account the specific life and experience world of their main actors. We reflect critically on policy and academic research in the field of entrepreneurship and family business, and translate this into practical recommendations for entrepreneurs, families in business, policy makers, and their environment. This course evaluates the following learning outcomes: The student 1.2 (BMO) reflects critically about the internal context of the organization and how management can influence this internal context to improve the functioning of the organization. 2.3 (BMO) has a wellfounded opinion about current societal problems with repect to firm strategy, management and entrepreneurship based on scientific knowledge. 4.3. (BMO) critically reflects about how societal and organizational trends impact corporate strategy, management and entrepeneurship and takes into account (the consequences of) involved stakeholders. 7.5 has a critical attitude and is able to put himself and his environment into question. 10.2. (BMO) reflects critically about the way in which important evolutions and innovations within SME management and entrepreneurship cen be translated into organizational policy, taking into account the idiosyncracies of the specific firm context. Objectives wrt ERS (Ethics, Responsibility, and Sustainibility): Topic related through themes like derailed mangament society, rethinking capitalism, great versus big entrepreneurship. Also illustrative through practical examples and case studies.