Entrepreneurship

Paper Code: 
JWT -601
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Objectives:

  1. To Differentiate between Wage employment, Self-employment & Entrepreneurship
  2. To Define and know the Meaning of the terms Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise
  3. To Understand the Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development
  4. To Differentiate the roles of an Entrepreneur and a Manager
9.00
Unit I: 
Entrepreneurship

Concepts and Définition

Entrepreneur

History

Nature and characteristics

Entrepreneurship

Enterprise

Female Enterpreneurship

9.00
Unit II: 
Functions of an Entrepreneur

Innovation

Risk and Uncertainty Bearing

Organization

Invention v/s innovation

9.00
Unit III: 
Entrepreneurship, Starting, Developing & Managing

                        First Generation Entrepreneurship

Difference between Wage Employment and Entrepreneurship

Difference between Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneur vs. Manager Relationship

Role of Entrepreneurship in Starting a New Business

 

9.00
Unit IV: 
Types of Entrepreneurs

Intrapreneurs:

Franchisee

Serial Entrepreneur

Engineer Entrepreneur

Visionary Entrepreneur

Factors  effecting  enterpreneurship

Other

Qualities of Entrepreneurs

Idealist

Optimizers

Hard Workers

Jugglers

Sustainers

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Spirit of Entrepreneurship

Moral decision making

Ethical imaginative power

Creativity in thoughts

Thrust of experimenting

Role of entrepreneurship in economic development

Study of famous entrepreneurs of India

 

 

Essential Readings: 
  1. Charantimath Poornima, 2006. Entrepreneur Development Small Business, Enterprise. Darling Kindersley (India) Pvt.Ltd., New Delhi.
  2. Dollinger, 2006. Entrepreneurship, Strategies and Resources. Pearson, Low priced edition, New Delhi, Third Edition.
  3. Shane, Scott "A General Theory of Entrepreneurship: the Individual-Opportunity Nexus", Edward Elgar, 2003, ISBN 1843769964

 

References: 
  1. Hatten S Timothy, 1997. Small Business Entrepreneurship and Beyond. Prentice Hall, New Jersey
  2. Hisrich-Peters, 1995. Entrepreneurship, Starting, Developing & Managing a new Enterprise. Irwin, Chicago, Third Edition.
  3. Entrepreneurship and Economic Development. The Free Press, New York
  4. Prasain G.P. 2003. [Ed.] Entrepreneurship Development, Sunmarg, Publishers and Distributors, Preet Vihar, New Delhi

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017
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