Registration ends 07.4.2026 at 23:59 h

You will register automatically for this course if you register for one of the following courses:
PoE: Digital and platform entrepreneurship (Stefanie Habersang),
PoE: Entrepreneurship Training | STEP S (Paul Jasper Herrmann),
PoE: Cultural Entrepreneurship (Laura Fey),
PoE: New & Alternative Forms of Organizing (Anna Stöber),
PoE: Entrepreneurship in Times of Crisis (Pauline Börries),
PoE: Entrepreneurship in Refugee Contexts: Between Empowerment and Constraint - Seidemann (Iris Seidemann),
PoE: Community Entrepreneurship - Group 1 (Steffen Farny),
PoE: Community Entrepreneurship - Group 2 (Steffen Farny),
PoE: Degrowth by Design: Rethinking Digital Innovation (Sara Elsa Maj Dahlman),
PoE: Doing Entrepreneurship Differently: Values-based Entrepreneurship, Difference, and Inequalities (Boukje Cnossen)

The course covers theories and methods to understand the entrepreneurial process from psychological, organizational, and societal perspectives. Entrepreneurship is a process encompassing opportunity identification, development, and exploitation. The psychological perspective provides insights into individual entrepreneurial success factors. It covers psychological concepts like personal initiative, human capital (prior knowledge and creativity), bricolage, effectuation, action planning, and financial bootstrapping to understand successful action along the entrepreneurial process.
The organizational perspective introduces organizational contexts relevant for entrepreneurship such as entrepreneurial ecosystems and networks, as well as various organized spaces and events that foster entrepreneurial activities. An organizational perspective allows discussing the social structures and practices that shape entrepreneurial activities. In addition, it elaborates on the role of intrapreneurship as a driver of change in established organizational settings.
The societal perspective introduces different forms of entrepreneurship such as social, institutional or cultural entrepreneurship to shed light on how societal norms and values shape entrepreneurial activities, and how entrepreneurship in turn can address various social challenges. It hereby also sheds light on the political economy and geography of entrepreneurship, which varies across countries and regions.

This course aims to introduce students to the entrepreneurial process, with a specific focus on psychological, organizational, and societal theories and concepts. By exploring these theories, students will develop a deep understanding of the actions, processes, and dynamics underlying entrepreneurship and its key success factors from multiple perspectives. Moreover, they will learn to apply these theoretical insights to accomplish the entrepreneurial process. Specifically, the students learn the mechanisms and boundary conditions relevant for opportunity identification, evaluation, and exploitation according to different theoretical perspectives relevant in entrepreneurship.

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