PART A: (1000 words)
PART A: Analysing the Entrepreneur Shahid Rafiq Khan
Each student will develop a case study on an international entrepreneur from a country of their choice with a specific focus. Therefore, if you choose technology entrepreneurship, you will find an international entrepreneur who is a technology entrepreneur also.
– A brief introduction about an International Entrepreneur + Ventures. Should make use of IE definitions covered in class (Kizner, Hisrich, Oviatt and Mcdougall etc.)
– The motivation to set up the ventures/businesses supported by theories such as: familial influences, education etc.
– Apply trait theories here: Are Entrepreneurs born or made?
– Use effectuation theories by SAVARASTHY, (what makes entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial? What influences their decision making?), applying whichever of the 5 Principles – Bird in hand, affordable loss, Crazy Quilt, Lemonade and Pilot in the sky – that your chosen IE may confirm to.
– What lessons can we draw from this International Entrepreneur? (Lessons learnt should have links to underlying theories and concepts related to entrepreneurs)
Part B: (500 words) – Themes
PART B (THEMES)
Each student will then identify the main International Entrepreneurship theme/s emerging from the case study and see how the focal international entrepreneur and his/her firm confirm/disconfirm the relevant International Entrepreneurship literature.
– Define the theme: Technology Entrepreneurship, using 2 or 3 definitions
– What are the features of Technology Entrepreneurship?
– Shahid Rafiq Khan is both Tech and Social-International (how do these marry into each other?)
– Try to capture the current debates on the subject
– Look at part A and compare, confirm and dis-confirm whether the literature is congruent with these definitions of an IE and the related themes applied in part B.
