Details for BUS547 Entrepreneurship, Business and Mission

Understanding the dynamic interplay between entrepreneurship, business, and mission can transform how one engages in the marketplace. This subject prepares students to integrate entrepreneurial pursuits with a mission-focused approach. Students will delve into the history and contemporary role of entrepreneurs, analyse business as mission in theological contexts, and develop actionable plans for mission-driven business ventures.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: BUS547
• Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Prerequisite

Nil

Unit Content

Outcomes

• Exhibit an indepth understanding of the concept of the entrepreneur, its history and contemporary role.
• Analyse the concept of business as mission, and its relationship to theologies of mission.
• Illustrate an advanced ability to formulate a viable plan for a business in a mission setting.
• Identify and distinguish the skills required to carry out this or a similar plan.
• Evaluate the beliefs (values), which give rise to business as mission.

Subject Content

• Entrepreneurship and mainstream economics
• Recovering creativity: a Christian imagination
• The Schumpeterian Revolution
• Modern developments in Entrepreneurship
• Recovering vision
• Social entrepreneurship
• Christian entrepreneurship and business mission
• Recovering insight
• A theology of mission and work
• A theology of entrepreneurship and business

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to face (onsite)
• E-learning (online)
• Intensives
• Extensives

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Two Critical Reflections (in-class) (30%)
• Project (40%)
• Exam (30%)

Prescribed Text

• Primary readings provided