ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN BUSINESS By Assistant Professor Octavian–Dragomir Jora, Ph.D.

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies The Faculty of International Business and Economics The Applied Modern Languages Program 2013-2014

Introducing and organizing the course

─ The enterprise of delivering lectures

about entrepreneurs ─ LECTU

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LECTURES (I)

1) Introducing and organizing the course. (The enterprise of delivering lectures about entrepreneurs) 2) On method in economic science. Praxeology and two questions: “how much economics the entrepreneur needs to be aware of?” and “how much economics do we need to be aware of the entrepreneur?” 3) The economic problem and the institution of private property rights. Indices and indexes revealing the economic freedom of the world 4) Spiritual values and entrepreneurial spirit. Projection of a documentary movie and debate upon it: „The Call of the Entrepreneur” (2007) 5) Economic functions: the capitalist-entrepreneur, the administrator-manager, the operative-technician, the public servant-bureaucrat. Division of labour and social coordination 6) The entrepreneur as creator of firms. Economic calculation and limits of business organizations. Small and medium entrepreneur versus business magnates: „small is beautiful, big is gorgeous”. Course with invitee from the Foreign Investors Council / Romanian Investors Council 7) Profits and losses. The problem of the business cycle

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LECTURES (II)

8) Entrepreneurship and competition. Factors (of production), (mass) phenomena and football. Projection of a documentary movie and debate upon it: „Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos” (2006) 9) Entrepreneurs across cultures: a sincere geography of the history of some modern entrepreneurs 10) Entrepreneurs in socialism, entrepreneurs in transition, entrepreneurs in kapitalism. Screening the entrepreneurial behaviours in Central and Eastern Europe. Course with invitee from ECE business environment 11) Knowledge economy, green economy, inclusive economy and the entrepreneur 12) Entrepreneurship and sustainable development. Institutions and instruments of the long run 13) Entrepreneurs of Romania. Mass media and political ideologies. Between the divinization and diablization of the business person 14) Concluding course. (Recap and preparing for the exam)

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SEMINARS (i)

1) Preparing the seminar meetings

2) The role of economic education in entrepreneurial endeavour

3) The entrepreneur and his enemies. „Index of Economic Freedom”

(Heritage Foundation), „Economic Freedom of the Word” (Fraser Institute,

Cato Institute), „Doing Business” (Banca Mondială), 2012 Corruption

Perceptions Index (Transparency International)

4) Religious morality, civic ethics, law and legislation. The confines of

entrepreneurial action

5) Profit management versus bureaucratic management

6) The making of fortunes from the Top Forbes 500 (case studies)

7) The subprime crisis and its global development. What kind of

entrepreneurial error?

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SEMINARS (ii)

8) Entrepreneurs, between foul and fair-play. Fair and unfair

competition

9) „The American Dream” versus „The Russian Nightmare”.

Entrepreneurship on top of Cold War ruins. Entrepreneurship also in China,

India, Latin America, Africa (case studies)

10) The role of entrepreneurship in privatization

11) The European entrepreneurs and the European social model

12) Inventors and entrepreneurs (case studies)

13) Kapitalism: our (not so) secret recipe. (Debate on the “Entrepreneurial

state of the nation”)

14) Concluding seminar

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EVALUATION

Interest, initialization, and involvement in debates

A project (private) conception and public delivery

Essay writing and /or review of a scientific article

30%

Written exam: open questions, not multiple choice

70%

SUCCESS (NOT ONLY GOOD LUCK)!

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