ENTREPRENEURSHIP

Paper Code: 
GBBA 302A
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to

  1. Create understanding of the nature and forms of entrepreneurial management.
  2. Develop entrepreneurial skills and competencies among students.

 

Course Outcomes (COs):

Course Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

The students will:

CO133. Recognise nature and forms of entrepreneurial management.

CO134. Develop the creativity and innovation skills among students.

CO135. Analyses social entrepreneurship and various business strategies to apply in real life situations.

CO136. Discuss about the system and functioning of family businesses.

CO137. Review the sources of financing the entrepreneurial business and develop different entrepreneurial skills for successful business.

Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration,

 

Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Chart preparation.

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 

Entrepreneurship: Meaning, Nature, Benefits, Classification of Entrepreneurship, Evolution of the Concept of Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Process

Entrepreneur: Competencies of an Entrepreneur, Types of Entrepreneur, Role and Functions of Entrepreneur

 

12.00
Unit II: 

Promotion of a New Venture: Search for a Business Idea – Sources of Ideas, Idea Processing and Selection; Pre-start-up Implementation – Assembling Necessary Inputs; Establishing the Enterprise and Start-up Stage – Start-up Operating objectives, Positioning  the Enterprise

 

Business Plan: Concept, Characteristics, Steps in developing a Bus iness Plan, Need and Importance of Business Plan, Feasibility Study for New business, Valuation of a New Company

 

12.00
Unit III: 

Forms of Business Ownership: Sole Proprietorship, Partnership, Limited Liability

partnership and Corporation form, Joint Stock, Co-operative Venture, Franchising

 

Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation: Meaning, Creativity Vs Innovation, Creativity and Innovation Process, Stimulating Creativity; Organizational actions that enhance/hinder creativity, Sources of Innovation in Business

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

Role of Government in Entrepreneurial Development: Need; Government Assistance,

Incentives and Schemes for Infrastructural facilities

 

Family Business and Entrepreneurship: Concept of Family business, Structure and Kinds of family firms, Management of family enterprises, Conflict and conflict resolution in family firms, Encouraging Change in the family business system.

 

12.00
Unit V: 

Financing the Entrepreneurial Business: Sources of finance – Short-term and Long-

term; Loan syndication, Consortium finance, Venture capital, Angel Investors

 

Institutional Support to Entrepreneurs: SIDBI, IDBI, IFCI, FIWE

 

ESSENTIAL READINGS: 
  1. Burns, P., Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Palgrave, New Jersey
  2. Drucker, P. F., Innovation and entrepreneurship: Practice and principles, Elsevier, USA
  3. Hisrich, R., & Peters, M., Entrepreneurship, Tata McGraw Hill, New Delhi

 

 

REFERENCES: 
  1. Holt, D. H., Entrepreneurship new venture creation, Prentice Hall India, New Delhi
  2. Kaplan, J., Patterns of entrepreneurship, Wiley
  3. G.S Sudha, Fundamentals of Entrepreneurship, R.B.D Publications Jaipur
  4. Vasant Desai, Entrepreneurial Development, Himalaya Publishing House
  5. Roy Rajeev, Entrepreneurship, Oxford Higher Education

E-resources:

  1. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Entrepreneurial_Development/uUdLAgAAQBAJ?hl =en&gbpv=1&dq=Entrepreneurship+full+preview&printsec=frontcover
  1. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/The_Oxford_Handbook_of_Entrepreneurship/3Uuto OJn1RkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Entrepreneurship+full+preview&printsec=frontcover
  2. https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Innovation_and_Entrepreneurship/OiuDBAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Entrepreneurship+full+preview&printsec=frontcover

 

Journals:

  1. Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies
  2. Business Perspective and Research
  3. Gyan Management
  4. IIS Journal of Commerce & Management
  5. Indian Journal of Marketing

 

Academic Year: 
2022-23
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