In spring semester 2009, the "International Entrepreneurship Research and Practice (IERP)" lecture on entrepreneurship and small business will take place, provided by the Chair of SME & Entrepreneurship.
This course will introduce students to classicial and modern theories of entrepreneurship and small business and discuss empirical evidence on various topics concerning the life cycle of the firm (birth, growth and exit). Comparing countries with different institutional environments, it enhances the understanding of the role the country's institutional set-up (e.g. property rights, taxes, entry requirements, corporate governance mechanisms for family businesses) plays in facilitating or restricting entrepreneurship and the small business sector.
Students will also have the opportunity to learn about
"hot topics" in entrepreneurship/small business research (e.g. high tech start-ups, minority businesses, corruption and entrepreneurship, internationalization strategies of entrepreneurs).
Dr. Georg Licht , the head of the Divison of Industrial Economics and International Management at the ZEW Mannheim (see
www.zew.de), is inquired as a
guest lecturer.
The updated
course syllabus and information on time and place will be provided within the next few weeks. The course language is
English. Lecturers are Vartuhi Tonoyan & Professor Michael Woywode.
For more information visit the "IERP" menu bar at the top of this webpage.
