Strategic Entrepreneurship and Organizational Renewal

Course Objective

Academic and Research Skills:
- Understand and know the reasons for successful strategic
entrepreneurship and organizational renewal.
- Understand and know the conditions and process of strategic
entrepreneurship and organizational renewal.

Knowledge of Theory + Methods and Solving Complex Problems:
- Apply theories and knowledge on strategic entrepreneurship and
organizational renewal to real-life problems.

Professional Social Skills:
- Apply theories and knowledge on strategic entrepreneurship and
organizational renewal to real-life problems.

Horizon Beyond Professional Area:
- Formulate your own opinion, on the basis of theories and knowledge on
strategic entrepreneurship and organizational renewal.

Self-Reflective Professional:
- Students take responsibility for their own learning of theories and
knowledge on strategic entrepreneurship and organizational renewal.

Course Content

How do companies such as Google, Tesla, Netflix or BMW continuously
create new market spaces, and revolutionize the world? Their strategic
entrepreneurship not only makes them outperform the competition; it
makes competition close to irrelevant. Yet, despite these inspiring
examples, in the end only very few companies have and/or can maintain
such an entrepreneurial culture and strong innovation spirit.

Why then is strategic entrepreneurship and innovation so difficult for
many established companies? And what can they do to boost their
innovation performance and foster organizational renewal? These two
questions form the heart of the course on Strategic Entrepreneurship &
Organizational Renewal.

To address these two key questions, this course focuses on the theory
and practice of both barriers against innovation and organizational
renewal as well as ways in which firms and organizations can overcome
these barriers effectively.
In particular, during the lectures, we aim to provide you with the
knowledge, insights and skills to assess existing conditions and
processes for nurturing strategic entrepreneurship and innovation. In
addition, during the tutorials, we want you to form your own opinion
about innovation and new business development within an established
company, and to give you the opportunity to practice communicative
skills related to strategic entrepreneurship and organizational renewal.
Finally, we want you to consider future digital developments in
strategies for strategic entrepreneurship and innovation with the aim to
reshape the competitive landscape.

The course is (very) intensive, has a high workload from the beginning,
and requires you to work in a team from week 1 on. You are therefore
advised to start reading the course papers before the teaching period
starts, and to start forming a team with other students in your tutorial
group before or right after the first lecture on 5 September (15.30 –
17:15hrs). Throughout the course, you have to keep up-to-date with the
course readings. You will be assessed twice during the first four weeks
on your team´s ability to integrate the course materials into two
real-life cases.

The course relies on a framework that makes a key distinction between
execution-oriented activities of renewal and innovation vis-à-vis the
organization conditions in which these renewal and innovation activities
are embedded. This framework forms the directing thread for the entire
course and, in this way, secures that its learning goals will be
accomplished in a consistent and comprehensive manner.

Additional Information Teaching Methods

Lectures, guest lectures, and tutorials

Method of Assessment

Individual Exam, Group Case Report;
Tutorial Participation

Entry Requirements

Not applicable

Literature

A selection of academic papers, cases and college slides will be
published in the course manual.

Additional Information Target Audience

students of the Strategy & Organization specialization

Explanation Canvas

Communication between students and the course coordinator goes via
canvas.

Recommended background knowledge

Not applicable