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Entrepreneurship - Cultural Entrepreneurship (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Laura Fey

Termin:
14-täglich | Montag | 10:15 - 13:45 | 14.04.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 6.317 Seminarraum

Inhalt: This is a bi-weekly undergraduate seminar that provides an overview of cultural entrepreneurship and introduces students to fundamental questions and approaches to the study of creating and legitimizing cultural organizations. Cultural entrepreneurship is a set of approaches for understanding entrepreneurial action that is based on similar cultural processes. Culture is at the foundation of entrepreneurship in two ways, a) entrepreneurs create and form organizations based on culture (culture as resource) and b) the legitimization and survival of organizations are based on the evaluation by audiences like society. Cultural entrepreneurship is an active and fast-developing area of research in the social sciences, with challenges and opportunities for organizations as well as society. This course is broad and aims to give students an overview of cultural entrepreneurship by encouraging them to apply theoretical and empirical ideas to their own lives. Each introduced idea should be examined with the following questions in mind: how do I understand the topic for myself? How does it matter for my own life and my friends? what is/are the overarching question(s) with which the idea is concerned? What are the key concepts? What are the assumptions about causal forces? How far is the empirical evidence convincing? A sub-theme that you should consider is why some ideas seem to convince you more than others. That is, pay attention to the crafting and composition of ideas from YouTube videos to academic papers. Lastly, this course is about reflecting on your experiences and to formulate your own research questions and perspectives.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major International Business Administration & Entrepreneurship - Elective: Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship - Digital Transformation (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Stefanie Habersang

Termin:
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 08:15 - 11:45 | 07.04.2025 - 24.04.2025 | C 6.320 Seminarraum
14-täglich | Donnerstag | 08:15 - 11:45 | 08.05.2025 - 11.07.2025 | C 6.317 Seminarraum

Inhalt: The emergence of digital technologies, digital platforms and digital infrastructures has transformed innovation and entrepreneurship significantly. Beyond simply opening new opportunities for (corporate) entrepreneurs, digital technologies have broader implications for value creation and value capture. Studies have shown how digital technologies fuel new forms of entrepreneurial initiatives that cross traditional industry/sectoral boundaries, embrace networks, ecosystems, and communities, integrate digital and non-digital assets, and accelerate the inception, scaling and evolution of new ventures. Studies have also documented the ways by which established large companies engage in forms of corporate entrepreneurship to redefine themselves and radically restructure their innovation strategies and practices to respond to digitization. It is undeniable that new digital technologies transform the nature of uncertainty inherent in entrepreneurship thereby, encouraging a radical rethink of how individuals, organizations, and collectives pursue creative endeavors. This course will be collaboratively designed with the company Cremer Oleo (https://www.cremeroleo.de/de)!!! Please make yourself famililar with the company before you decide to take the course. Students will take on the role of corporate entrepreneurs at Cremer Oleo, tackling real-world digitalization challenges within the organization, and will present their solutions to the CEO and Managing Director at the end of the semester. A class excursion to the Oleo headquarters is planned as part of the course and mandatory. Based on the (randomly) assigned digitalization challenge students will get imput from the lecturer and a company representative to solve the assigment. Digital transformation challenge I: (2 groups with 4-5 students) Change Management / People Management / Organizational Development: Over the last three years, Cremer completed the largest digitalization and automation projects in the history of the company. These include the implementation of a new ERP system, workflows, interfaces, data warehouses, text recognition, document management systems, and more. A key learning from these projects and the organizational challenges involved is that Cremer increasingly need cross-company and process-oriented roles to define requirements and execute projects. In this context, Cremer has established teams of Process, Application, and Master Data Owners and have begun developing employees for these roles. This organizational process is still ongoing and is very challenging, as the company has limited resources for hiring, training, and development. Questions to solve by team: -What organizational impacts does digital transformation have on roles, teams, and skills in companies like ours? -What leadership and project management approaches are most effective in overcoming the challenges of digital transformation? -What new roles and interfaces need to be created to meet the demands of digital transformation? -How does communication within the company change with the introduction of new digital technologies and processes? Digital ransformation challenge II: (2 groups with 4-5 students) Digital Transformation in a Family Business: Since Cremer has limited resources to pursue digital transformation initiatives simultaneously, questions arise regarding goal definition and prioritization of actions. In this context, Cremer regularly asks which technological developments make sense for the company at which point in time (e.g., the company does not need to worry about AI until it has reliable master data). Furthermore, the managers needs to determine how they can assess the value of these initiatives. -Which transformation measures are right for Cremer at which stage? What decision-making factors are involved (e.g., customer benefit vs. efficiency gains)? -What discovery and decision-making processes are crucial for this? -What steps are necessary to increase the digital maturity of a family business and define an appropriate target vision? -Which best practices from similar companies can be applied to CREMER Oleo Europe? -How can digital transformation contribute to improving customer loyalty and satisfaction? Be prepared to work as a group! This seminar requires intensive group work!

Leuphana Bachelor - Major International Business Administration & Entrepreneurship - Elective: Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneurship in Action: IBAE Community (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Sünje von Helldorff

Inhalt: Entrepreneurship is more than just founding a new venture. It involves creativity and play, and it is implied in every project and even in the mundane parts of everyday work. In this seminar, we will discuss and experience this way of understanding entrepreneurship based on the conceptualization of community activities.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major International Business Administration & Entrepreneurship - Elective: Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship: Age(ing) and Work (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Anne Marit Wöhrmann

Inhalt: Due to demographic change the share of older employees in many Western countries and therefore in many organizations is increasing. In the seminar we will take a closer look at age-related changes and their significance in the work context based on psychological theories on aging. We will do so by means of short inputs, discussions, reading scientific articles, and small group presentations. Specifically, we will explore the following aspects: 1. Successful Aging and Psychological Concepts of Aging 2. Action regulation - What role does individual action play in aging at work? 3. Motivation - Do older employees have different needs than younger ones? 4. Stress & Emotion Regulation - Do older and younger employees differ in dealing with emotional demands? 5. Age-appropriate work - How can working conditions be designed to be age-appropriate?

Leuphana Bachelor - Major International Business Administration & Entrepreneurship - Elective: Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship: Future Skills for Entrepreneurs – Enabling Changemakers to Design a Better Future (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Martin Schwemmle

Inhalt: Future Skills for Entrepreneurs – Enabling Changemakers to Design a Better Future This seminar equips entrepreneurial minds with the essential Future Skills needed to thrive in an increasingly complex, digital, and interconnected world. Designed for aspiring changemakers, the course focuses on developing the human-centered competencies necessary to create meaningful impact, build resilient teams, and innovate for a better tomorrow. The seminar is organized around five central themes with an emphasis on four crucial Future Skills for entrepreneurs. 1. Traps Preventing Us from Designing a Better Future Students will delve into the complexities of today’s world and apply these insights to real-life business scenarios. They will learn to identify common cognitive traps that limit forward-thinking and develop strategies to overcome these obstacles, empowering them to design a better future. 2. Future & Entrepreneurial Mindset Understanding the role of mindset in shaping personal and organizational success, students will dive into the research on growth and entrepreneurial mindsets. Through practical exercises, they will develop their own growth-oriented mindset and learn how to foster this mindset in teams, enabling them to better manage challenges, form high-performing teams, and spur well-being within organizations. 3. Future Skills: Overview & Assessment Students will explore different Future Skills frameworks and assess their own competencies using the Future Skills Navigator, a holistic and research-backed model. Through self-reflection and group collaboration, students will identify areas for improvement and leverage their collective potential. 4. Deep Dive: Crucial Future Skills for Entrepreneurs The seminar focuses on four key Future Skills essential for entrepreneurs: a. Fog Mastery: Navigating uncertainty with curiosity and an exploratory mindset. b. Resilience: Cultivating the ability to overcome setbacks and grow through adversity, both personally and organizationally. c. Self-Efficacy: Growing the belief in one’s own ability to organize and execute the actions required to achieve specific goals. d. Innovation & Co-Creation: Fostering creativity and collaboration to develop new, value-added solutions. Students will engage in hands-on activities to better understand and apply these skills within entrepreneurial contexts. They will further develop strategies of how to share these skills with others, e.g., their peers and teams. 5. Future Skills in Entrepreneurial Action Through case studies and real-world examples, students will examine how successful entrepreneurs have utilized Future Skills to navigate challenges and grow their ventures (please refer to the Grading section). These insights will be linked back to the skills developed throughout the seminar, solidifying the practical relevance of Future Skills for entrepreneurial success.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major International Business Administration & Entrepreneurship - Elective: Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship: The craziness of organisations – and how to deal with it (Seminar)

Dozent/in: Sünje von Helldorff, N. N., Sarah Schmid

Inhalt: When you take a job, you become part of an organisation. Sometimes this can seem quite crazy in everyday working life: Why is everyone doing something different from what is described in the guidelines? Why don't others understand that my project is incredibly important? Why is she getting the promotion and not me? In the seminar we look at organizations as social systems in which 1. the division of labor inevitably leads to different perspectives on what is in the interest of the whole organisation; 2. there are inevitably power games; 3. there is often less adherence to rules than planned. We do not see these as pathologies of the organisation, but as perfectly normal phenomena arising from the inherent logic of organised systems. However, they do not make it easy to find one's way in organisations and to advance one's ideas and projects. How do micro-political processes work in organisations? Which methodological approaches allow a well-founded analysis of organisational structures? And how can leadership be successful in complex contexts? In the seminar we will address these questions from a scientific and practical perspective. As consultants at Metaplan we advise companies on their specific challenges in organisational and strategic development and translate findings from organisational science into action-oriented impulses for practice. The seminar is divided into three main themes 1. Acting smartly in micro-politics: Organisations are shaped not only by formal hierarchies but also by micro-political negotiation processes. We examine how understanding, power and trust influence decision-making processes - and how they can be used to advance one's own interests. 2. Managing change in organisations: Organisations have their own structural dynamics. We use organisational analysis tools to make formal and informal structures visible. This helps us to think ahead about change processes and to identify possible courses of action. 3. Taking the lead: From a sociological perspective, hierarchy and leadership are not the same. We discuss an organisationally intelligent understanding of leadership that moves away from the image of the heroic leader. In this way, we offer starting points for young professionals to take the lead beyond a disciplinary role and successfully drive their own projects.

Leuphana Bachelor - Major International Business Administration & Entrepreneurship - Elective: Entrepreneurship