Course Description
A considerable part of any Business Administration program
positions ‘business’ as a set of measurable and calculable
processes, and ‘business people’ as rational and, often literally,
calculating people. An entrepreneur is a man with vision and
drive, who knows what he wants to achieve and how he can
achieve those goals.
This course introduces the ways entrepreneurship is being
practiced in relation to various societal, cultural and political
contexts. It views entrepreneurship from a more social constructivist
perspective, and sees entrepreneurship as a discourse. Although this
is a powerful discourse, the course will show how entrepreneurship
is a collaborative social achievement, in which the interactions of
entrepreneurs and their stakeholders sustain and transform the nature
of entrepreneurship through constant dialogues about what they
believe entrepreneurship is and what the entrepreneur should look
like / how (s)he should behave. By introducing the notion of (multiple)
identity the course will reflect on the embeddedness of
entrepreneurship within various (cultural/national) contexts.
Students will obtain a better understanding of the demands and claims
of being and becoming ‘a good and successful entrepreneur’ and thus
the power mechanisms that are involved in entrepreneurial activities.
They will gain more knowledge on the assumptions of how to set up
enterprises, how to behave as a ‘successful’ entrepreneur, and the social
dynamics in entrepreneurship.
The abstract theories will be illustrated with many practicial cases using
a variety of media, like videos and online games.