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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 to develop 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 this elective is to provide a dynamic model for understanding and fostering visionary thinking and entrepreneurship.
 

Required Readings

Lesson 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. (1988). “Who is an entrepreneur?” Is the wrong question. American Journal of Small Business, 12(4), 11-32.
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. (2011, June 17). The narrative of a young entrepreneur. [YouTube video]. Teori og Praksis, Young Enterprise Danmark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V3LO5dPiME

Lesson 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), Vol. 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. 
Reading 14: Meehan, M. (2012, August 19). Does entrepreneurial vision really exist? 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). Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs. [YouTube video]. TEDxEdmonton: TED Talks. http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/cameron_herold_let_s_raise_kids_to_be_entrepreneurs.html

Lesson 3

Reading 16: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2017). Chapter 1: Your great adventure: Exploring your options. In Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan (7th enhanced Can. ed., pp. 1–32). Toronto, ON: Cengage Canada. [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 17: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2017). Chapter 2: Spotting Trends and Opportunities. In Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan (7th enhanced Can. ed., pp. 33–66). Toronto, ON: Cengage Canada. [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 18: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2017). Chapter 3: Positioning yourself as an entrepreneur for market opportunities. In Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan (7th enhanced Can. ed., pp. 67–91). Toronto, ON: Cengage Canada.Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 19: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2017). Chapter 4: Profiling your target customer. In Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan (7th enhanced Can. ed., pp. 93–117). Toronto, ON: Cengage Canada. [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]

Reading 20: Knowles, R. & Castillo, C. (2017). Chapter 5: Learning from the competition: Your competitive intelligence. In Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan (7th enhanced Can. ed., pp. 119–127).Toronto, ON: Cengage Canada.  [Please refer to your textbook for this reading]
Reading 21: McEwen, T. (2008). Environmental scanning and organizational learning in entrepreneurial ventures. Entrepreneurial Executive, 13, 1–16.

Lesson 4

Reading 22: Knowles, R., & Castillo, C. (2017). Chapter 5: Learning from the competition: Your competitive intelligence. In Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan (7th Enhanced Can. Ed.) (pp. 127–141). Toronto, ON: Cengage Canada.[Please refer to your textbook for this reading]
Reading 23: Katila, R., Chen, E., & Piezunka, H. (2012). All the right moves: How entrepreneurial firms compete effectively. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 6(2), 116–132. 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), 483–497.

Reading 25: Knowles, R., & Castillo, C. (2017). Chapter 15: Pulling the plan together. In Small business: An entrepreneur’s plan (7th Enhanced Can. Ed.) (pp. 419–448). Toronto, ON: Cengage Canada. [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.