Digital Reading Room 2.0 -- RVET-651: Visionary & Entrepreneurial Thinking

RVET-651: Visionary & Entrepreneurial Thinking Report a Broken Link
This elective will provide the knowledge, tools and thinking structure required to undertake any kind of activity, but especially entrepreneurial and organizational activities. Participants will learn the characteristics of entrepreneurs and how entrepreneurial activity systems are formed.

Participants will also learn how to apply and use the entrepreneurial model of vision and relations to understand entrepreneurial behaviour and use it as a basis for developing their own visionary and entrepreneurial systems thinking. The course lays the foundation for entrepreneurial activities both inside and outside existing organizations.

The main aim of the elective is to provide a dynamic model for understanding and fostering visionary thinking and entrepreneurship.

Required Readings

Day 1

Reading 1: Ahmad, N., & Seymour, R. G. (2008). Defining entrepreneurial activity: Definitions supporting frameworks for data collection. OECD Statistics Working Paper Series, STD/DOC(2008)1. Paris: OECD Statistics Directorate.

Reading 2: Gartner, W. B. (1989). “Who is an entrepreneur?” Is the wrong question. Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, 13(4), 47-68.

Reading 3: Filion, L. J. (2000). Entrepreneurial typologies: Are they really useful? In E. Brauchlin & J. H. Pichler (Eds.), Unternehmer und Unternehmens-perspektiven für Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (pp. 163-172). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot/St. Gallen.

Reading 4: Kirby, D. A. (2004). Entrepreneurship education: Can business schools meet the challenge? Education & Training, 46(8/9), 510-519.

Reading 5: Nicolaou, N., Shane, S., Cherkas, L., Hunkin, J., & Spector, T. D. (2008). Is the tendency to engage in entrepreneurship genetic? Management Science, 54(1), 167-179.

Video 1: Gartner, W. B. (n. d.). The narrative of a young entrepreneur [YouTube video]. Teori og Praksis, Young Enterprise Danmark. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V3LO5dPiME

Day 2

Reading 6: Hallinger, P., & Heck, R. H. (2002). What do you call people with visions? The role of vision, mission and goals in school leadership and improvement. In K. Leithwood & P. Hallinger (Eds.), Second International Handbook of Educational Leadership and Administration, 2002, Volume 8, Section 1 (pp. 9-40). Great Britain: Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Reading 7: Senge, P. M. (2005). Missing the boat on leadership. Leader to Leader, 2005(38), 28-30.

Reading 8: Klonoski, R. (2012). How important is creativity? The impact of age, occupation and cultural background on the assessment of ideas. Journal of Applied Business Research, 28(3), 411-425.

Reading 9: Thoms, P., & Greenberger, D. B. (1998). A test of vision training and potential antecedents to leaders’ visioning ability. Human Resources Development Quarterly, 9(1), 3-19.

Reading 10: Boomer, C., & McCormack, B. (2008). ‘I have a dream’: A process for visioning in practice development. Practice Development in Health Care, 7(2), 70-78.

Reading 11: Bird, B. (1988). Implementing entrepreneurial ideas: The case for intention. Academy of Management Review, 13(3), 442-453.

Reading 12: Hurst, D., MacDougall, S., & Pelham, C. (2008). Aligning personal and entrepreneurial visions for success: The entrepreneur counseling model of the Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship. Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2(4), 367-386.

Reading 13: Kantabutra, S., & Avery, G. C. (2003). Enhancing SME performance through vision-based leadership: An empirical study. Paper presented at the Small Enterprise Association of Australia & New Zealand 16th Annual Conference, Victoria, AU. Retrieved from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.201.4686&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Reading 14: Meehan, M. (2012, August 19). Does entrepreneurial vision really exist? Retrieved from http://www.cleantech-ink.com/2012/08/does-entrepreneurial-vision-really-exist.html#!/2012/08/does-entrepreneurial-vision-really-exist.html

Reading 15: Claire, L. (2012). Re-storying the entrepreneurial ideal: Lifestyle entrepreneurs as hero? TAMARA: Journal of Critical Postmodern Organization Science, 10(1), 31-39.

Video 2: Herold, C. (2010). Cameron Herold: Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs [YouTube video]. TED Talks. Retrieved from http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/cameron_herold_let_s_raise_kids_to_be_entrepreneurs.html

Day 3

Reading 16: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2011). Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan. (6th Canadian Edition). Ontario, ON: Nelson Education Ltd. (Chapter 1, pp. 1-28) [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 17: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2011). Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan. (6th Canadian Edition). Ontario, ON: Nelson Education Ltd. (Chapter 2, pp. 29-56) [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 18: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2011). Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan. (6th Canadian Edition). Ontario, ON: Nelson Education Ltd. (Chapter 3, pp. 57-80) [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 19: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2011). Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan. (6th Canadian Edition). Ontario, ON: Nelson Education Ltd. (Chapter 4, pp. 81-102) [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 20: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2011). Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan. (6th Canadian Edition). Ontario, ON: Nelson Education Ltd. (Chapter 5, pp. 103-112) [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 21: McEwen, T. (2008). Environmental scanning and organizational learning in entrepreneurial ventures. Entrepreneurial Executive, 13, pp. 1-16.

Day 4

Reading 22: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2011). Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan. (6th Canadian Edition). Ontario, ON: Nelson Education Ltd. (Chapter 5, pp. 113-122) [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 23: Katila, R., Chen, E., & Piezunka, H. (June 2012). All the right moves: How entrepreneurial firms compete effectively. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 6(2), pp.116-132. Doi: 10.1002/sej.1130. Retrieved from:http://www.stanford.edu/~rkatila/new/pdf/KatilaSEJ12.pdf

Reading 24: Welbourne. T. & Pardo-del-Val, M. (2009). Relational capital: Strategic advantage for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) through negotiation and collaboration. Group Decision & Negotiation, 18(5), pp. 483-497.

Reading 25: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2011). Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan. (6th Canadian Edition). Ontario, ON: Nelson Education Ltd. (Chapter 15, pp. 395-420) [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 26: Carland, J. C., & Carland, J. W. (2003). A model of entrepreneurial planning and its effect on performance. Distinguished paper, presented at the Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Annual Conference, Houston, US.