DBA8102: Entrepreneurship
Credits 3DBA 8102 : Entrepreneurship
3 credits
Only open to DBA students
This course offers a broad survey of approaches used in the study of entrepreneurship. It has four objectives: to help students learn how to theorize, to help them uncover important and interesting questions to ask, to help them learn how to influence scholarly conversation through the publication of those thoughts and to help them learn how to become a thought leader in practice, scholarship and/or pedagogy. To achieve these objectives, we will develop an understanding of research and scholarship as a conversation. We will approach several scholarly conversations in entrepreneurship and discuss how we might go about contributing to their evolution. To do so, we will discuss what theory is, what theory does, and how theory is developed; the myriad meanings of entrepreneurship, the seminal works that have developed them, and the theoretical conversations those works have inspired; how these theoretical conversations have emerged and continue to evolve; strategies one might use to enter into the conversation and influence its direction; and, tactics one might use to expedite the development of a manuscript.
Specifically, we will engage in exercises to help to learn how to construct your scholarly identity, choose a research topic for research, identify your audience, pitch your ideas effectively, and identify exemplars to serve as a blueprint. We will also discuss and engage in exercises to improve each section of your paper, including title, abstract, outline, introduction, literature review, theoretical development, methodology & analysis, discussion, contribution, and conclusion.