2015/16 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

LUBS1175 Global Entrepreneurship

10 creditsClass Size: 120

Module manager: Dr Christos Antoniou
Email: ca@lubs.leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2015/16

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

To develop an understanding and awareness of how entrepreneurs create and manage ventures across national borders and cultures. The module focuses on how entrepreneurs use their skills and develop their capabilities to identify opportunities that allow them to go global. It covers the core concepts of implementing a global entrepreneurial strategy and managing a global entrepreneurial enterprise.

Objectives

The objective of this module is to familiarise students with the key concepts, theories, and processes of international entrepreneurship. The module equips students with the knowledge required to appreciate the dynamics that motivate the entrepreneur to go global. The module encourages and supports students to develop a critical awareness of the complexities in managing and growing an entrepreneurial venture across different cultures and institutional environments.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module students will be able to:
- describe and discuss what global entrepreneurship is and distinguish it from domestic entrepreneurship and internationalised firms.
- recognise the requirements for venturing and managing across different cultures and nationalities.
- Indicate the strategic effects, issues and process of going global.
- Understand how to recognise and select international business opportunities.
- Appreciate the legal considerations, regulations and ethics involved in global entrepreneurship.
- Describe and assess the key features of successful international human resource management and leadership within an entrepreneurial go-global venture.
- Recognise the importance of global entrepreneurs for any national economy and for the world economy.
- Demonstrate the capacity to engage critically and comment upon case studies and real world examples of global entrepreneurial businesses.

Skills outcomes
Subject specific skills:

Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of, critical knowledge about and evaluate the underlying theories and principles of global entrepreneurship.

Syllabus

The module will broadly cover:
Topic 1: The Importance of Global Entrepreneurship
Topic 2: Strategic effects of going global; opportunities and barriers to international entrepreneurs.
Topic 3: Cross-cultural issues in global entrepreneurship.
Topic 4: Entrepreneurial and incubation support programmes in developed and developing economies.
Topic 5: Developing a global business plan to enter the world market.
Topic 6: Formulating an entrepreneurial global strategy; foreign country entrance decisions and international partnering
Topic 7: International entrepreneurship from emerging economies
Topic 8: Management of an international new business venture.
Topic 9: International Research and Development capabilities and global entrepreneurial marketing.
Topic 10: International Legal and Ethical concerns.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Class tests, exams and assessment	1	1.00	1.00
Lecture	11	1.00	11.00
Seminar	5	1.00	5.00
Private study hours			83.00
Total Contact hours			17.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Private study

83 hours of total private study, which involve; case study preparation background reading (10 hours); individual research & reading (30 hours); in-class mid-term examination preparation (15hours) and end of the module examination preparation (28 hours).

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Students’ progress will be monitored through practical exercises and class discussion of the topics and case studies discussed during the seminars. During the seminars students will be encouraged and prompt to apply the theoretical knowledge gained in lectures and their private study to real life scenarios and questions.
- Formative feedback will be provided to students in seminar class discussions and based on their responses by the seminar tutor. They will also be provided with collective feedback through VLE after the module leader collates the relevant information from the seminar tutors.
- Students will sit a mid-module test (25%) on which they will receive formative feedback in terms of the mark awarded. Students will have the opportunity to discuss their test performance with teaching staff to identify areas of problematic understanding to enable them to prepare for the summative assessment at the conclusion of the module (75%).
- Exam preparation lecture at the end of the course will allow students to raise any questions in regards to the topics and the materials covered and get them ready for the formal examination.
- Additional feedback and consultation will be provided on a one-to-one basis outside of the class setting if required by a student.
- The summative assessment of the module takes the form of a mid-module test (25%) and a final exam (75%).

Methods of assessment

Exams

Exam type	Exam duration	% of formal assessment
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	2 hr	75.00
Standard exam (closed essays, MCQs etc)	1 hr	25.00
Total percentage (Assessment Exams)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 08/03/2017

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