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  • 1.  International entrepreneurship

    Posted 05-09-2006 17:48

    Hiya all,

    I have been given a new paper to teach so I guess I should start planning for it.  The paper  is "international" Entrepreneurship.   I have mixed feelings about the way academia treats entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial construct. It appears much activity may be prefaced by the word  entrepreneurial, for example the words  marketing, politics, business, art, and even teaching.  To that end I have written a paper that addresses entrepreneurship as a metaphor, but that's an aside.

    Anyway, I am writing a Masters level class called  International entrepreneurship, and along with my own ideas I would be interested in how some of you have addressed this topic.  I am thinking of running the class as a critique.  As a start point I have prescribed the book The Collapse of Globalism, and to offer a counter point a more traditional text on international business.  I am aiming to offer a critique of the IMF, World Bank and WTO, along with the underlying reasons why business people may want to form international trading relationships.

    Of course I also will be building into the course, an appreciation of the entrepreneurial construct and how that sits alongside international pursuits.  So, if any of you have courses or helpful advice concerning the approach or concerning courses on international entrepreneurship I would really appreciate hearing from you.

    Have a great week people.

    Kind Regards.


    Dr Andrew Cardow
    Department of Management and International Business
    Massey University, Auckland NZ
    ph + 64 9 414 0800
    a.cardow@massey.ac.nz

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  • 2.  International entrepreneurship

    Posted 05-11-2006 12:43
    Andrew,

    Have a look at the web site www.internationalentrepreneurship.com for some ideas.  The web site has been created by a GSU instructor Jim Beach.  It includes his course materials along with a LOT of resources organized by company, research topics, etc.

    Good luck.

    Alice


    Alice de Koning, PhD
    Managerial Sciences/Entrepreneurship
    Georgia State University
    P.O. Box 4014
    Atlanta, GA 30302-4014
    404-651-2989
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  • 3.  International entrepreneurship

    Posted 05-11-2006 13:50
    Andrew,
     
    You might find some good resources for your course at www.internationalentrepreneurship.com.  Also, consider Peter Fingar's book, Extreme Competition.
     
    Ben Oviatt
    Georgia State University
    Atlanta, GA USA 

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    Hiya all,

    I have been given a new paper to teach so I guess I should start planning for it.  The paper  is "international" Entrepreneurship.   I have mixed feelings about the way academia treats entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial construct. It appears much activity may be prefaced by the word  entrepreneurial, for example the words  marketing, politics, business, art, and even teaching.  To that end I have written a paper that addresses entrepreneurship as a metaphor, but that's an aside.

    Anyway, I am writing a Masters level class called  International entrepreneurship, and along with my own ideas I would be interested in how some of you have addressed this topic.  I am thinking of running the class as a critique.  As a start point I have prescribed the book The Collapse of Globalism, and to offer a counter point a more traditional text on international business.  I am aiming to offer a critique of the IMF, World Bank and WTO, along with the underlying reasons why business people may want to form international trading relationships.

    Of course I also will be building into the course, an appreciation of the entrepreneurial construct and how that sits alongside international pursuits.  So, if any of you have courses or helpful advice concerning the approach or concerning courses on international entrepreneurship I would really appreciate hearing from you.

    Have a great week people.

    Kind Regards.


    Dr Andrew Cardow
    Department of Management and International Business
    Massey University, Auckland NZ
    ph + 64 9 414 0800
    a.cardow@massey.ac.nz

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  • 4.  International entrepreneurship

    Posted 05-11-2006 16:27
    Andrew:

    I've taught this subject two ways, which might be two different weeks
    of your course, but probably not the complete package.

    One is through my Internet Business course. By using the Web for
    commercial purposes, there is reason for entrepreneurs to go after
    globally defined niches, which might be very small and specialized, yet
    large enough to sustain a business if managed on a global basis. The
    best case I've seen on that approach was a Systems (i.e., IT) bookstore
    in Halifax, Nova Scotia, which was serving a local market with a total
    population of about 300,000 people. How many customers would that size
    population have for advanced systems engineering books? When the
    company posted the inventory database online, the staff started to learn
    a lot about demand from all of the other non-metropolitan systems
    engineers in the world. It totally transformed the business.
    Globalization of opportunity means something radically different for
    entrepreneurs than it does for local social policy activists! The
    impacts of the Web on entrepreneurship are dramatic and you could build
    an entire course around them.

    Another approach I use comes from the Family Business (FB) side. We
    have conventionally thought of MNEs as big, public-listed,
    professionally managed corporations, but the truth is that more than 50%
    of international commerce goes through family firms which are quite
    different in values, origin, locations, purpose, rationality, and
    operations. I have been working for some time on an International FB
    model of world commerce, and hope to have the first monograph on that
    redrafted this summer. I'd be happy to share that working paper with
    you and your students. In the meantime, you might be interested in the
    research Usha and George Haley have done along similar lines, looking at
    multinational networks of Asian entrepreneurs.

    Best regards,

    Tom.


    Prof. Thomas A. Bryant, Ph.D.
    The Bollinger Family Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship
    Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA 70310, USA
    Tel: (985) 448-4179; e-mail: tom.bryant@nicholls.edu

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