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This course examines the characteristics, traits, and skills generally held by entrepreneurs, and guides students through an exploration of their values, interests, and goals in the context of considering an entrepreneurial venture. Students work to align their personal vision with their entrepreneurial vision, and examine successful entrepreneurs and enterprises.

In the final course week, students compare their thinking at the beginning of the course when they first explore entrepreneurial traits, to their thinking at the end of the course, analyzing their own learning and knowledge gained.

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. (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. (2002, June). Entrepreneurship education: Can business schools meet the challenge? Education & Training, 46(8), 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, William B. (n.d.). The narrative of a young entrepreneur [YouTube video]. TeoriogPraksis, Young Enterprise Danmark.

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, 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.
Video 2: Herold, C. (2010). Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs [YouTube video]. TED Talks.

Lesson 3

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 vision 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? 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.

Lesson 4

There are no required readings in this lesson.
Supplemental Reading 16: Ensley, M. D., Carland, J. W., & Carland, J. C. (2000). Investigating the existence of the lead entrepreneur. Journal of Small Business Management, 38(4), 59-77.
Supplemental Reading 17: Gartner, W. B. (2008). Variations in entrepreneurship. Small Business Economics, 31(4), 351-361.