Entrepreneurship

Paper Code: 
JWT 601
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To Differentiate between Wage employment, Self-employment & Entrepreneurship
  • To Define and know the Meaning of the terms Entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise
  • To Understand the Role of Entrepreneurship in Economic Development
  • To Differentiate the roles of an Entrepreneur and a Manager
9.00
Unit I: 
Entrepreneurship:

 Concepts and Definitions

Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship

Enterprise

Unit II: 
Functions of an Entrepreneur

Innovation
Risk and Uncertainty Bearing
Organization

Unit III: 
Entrepreneurship, Starting, Developing & Managing

Difference between Wage Employment and Entrepreneurship
Difference between Entrepreneur and Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneur vs. Manager Relationship
Role of Entrepreneurship in Starting a New Business

Unit IV: 
Types of Entrepreneurs

Intrapreneurs:

           Franchisee

          Serial Entrepreneur

Engineer Entrepreneur

Visionary Entrepreneur

 

Qualities of Entrepreneurs

Idealist

Optimizers

Hard Workers

Jugglers

Sustainers

Unit V: 
Spirit of Entrepreneurship :

Moral decision making
Ethical imaginative power
Creativity in thoughts
Thrust of experimenting

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