Strategic Entrepreneurial Growth

Code

BUSI4605

School

Nottingham University Business School China

Level

4

Credits

10

Semesters

Spring China

Summary

The module combines practical and theoretical perspectives on the process of planning and implementing strategic entrepreneurial growth.
The module will help develop your capacity to evaluate multiple strategic options under conditions of uncertainty. Using frameworks and concepts you will construct a strategic growth plan for a small entrepreneurial firm or social enterprise. 
The module also provides insights into the owner-founder’s experience of strategic growth.
 

Target Students

Available to students on the MSc Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Management, Management, International Business and Business and Management and on suitable Business School MSc programmes.

Classes

• One 2-hour lecture each week for 11 weeks

100 hours aplit as follows: •22 hours contact hours (2 hour session per week x 11 weeks) •39 hours of independent study (e.g., reading and preparing case studies) •39 coursework preparation Method of Delivery.

Assessment

• 100% Coursework: Individual coursework of 2500 words.

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and understanding: This module develops a knowledge and understanding of:

The management of resources

Business innovation – creativity, intrapreneurial – and entrepreneurial behaviour and enterprise development, and the management and exploitation of intellectual property  

Leadership and management of people within organisations – leadership, organisational behaviour and motivation 

Strategic management - the development and implementation of appropriate strategies within a changing environment

Intellectual skills: This module develops:

Being able to think critically and be creative: manage the creative processes in self and others; organise thoughts, analyse, synthesise and critically appraise. This includes the capability to identify assumptions, evaluate statements in terms of evidence, detect false logic or reasoning, identify implicit values, define terms adequately and generalise appropriately

Being able to solve complex problems and make decisions: establish criteria, using appropriate decision-making techniques including identifying, formulating and solving business problems; and the ability to create, identify and evaluate options; the ability to implement and review decisions

Using information and knowledge effectively in order to abstract meaning from information and to share knowledge, including the use of quantitative skills

Professional practical skills: This module develops:

The ability to conduct research and enquiry into business and management issues either individually or as part of a team through research design, the collection and analysis of qualitative data, synthesis and reporting

The ability to recognise the need for and initiate change and to be able to manage change

Transferable (key) skills: This module develops:

Effective communication: networking, listening, oral and written communication of complex ideas and arguments, using a range of media, including the preparation of business reports

High personal effectiveness: critical self-awareness, self-reflection and self-management; time management; conflict  resolution, displaying commercial acumen, the ability to continue to learn through reflection on practice and experience

Soft skills: understanding the needs of others and empathy towards them; sensitivity to diversity in people and in different situations

Conveners

• Dr Haibo Zhou