Course Catalogue

Entrepreneurship and Business Planning MGT4109

  • Academic Session: 2026-27
  • School: Adam Smith Business School
  • Credits: 15
  • Level: Level 4 (SCQF level 10)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No
  • Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

This course is designed to highlight the development and application of the ideas and concepts of entrepreneurship and small business.

Timetable

10 x 2 hour lectures

Requirements of Entry

University of Glasgow students must have achieved Subject Honours entry requirements as detailed below to enrol on this course. A GPA of 12 (average C3) in the following courses with no course grade below D3, attained at the first attempt:

 

■ MGT2010 - Business Decision Analysis

■ MGT2011 - Fundamentals of Human Resource Management

■ MGT2012 - Service and Operations Management

■ MGT2014 - Entrepreneurship

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

1. Written assignment, including essay; Group; 1500-2000 words (Business canvas table and reflective appendices); 30%; ILOs 1-3.

2. Written assignment, including essay; Individual; 1750 words (+/- 10%); 70%: ILOs 4, 5.

Course Aims

This course is designed to develop the concepts of how businesses grow via entrepreneurial planning and through the use of the business plan. The course is also designed to enable students to describe and evaluate the issues crucial to the development of smaller firms, the role and personality of the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial team, and the relationship of the smaller firm to its environment. The course will draw on the growing body of research and literature related to the development of smaller companies.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

By the end of this course students will be able to:

 

1. Criticise and contrast theories and concepts of entrepreneurship and the role of the entrepreneur.

 

2. Recognise and evaluate the importance of entrepreneurship in a variety of profit and non-profit contexts, including inside established organisations.

 

3. Collaborate in a group to create a business plan for a new venture, drawing on relevant theory and case examples.

 

4. Identify and explain the risks associated with new ventures.

 

5. Discuss why new ventures are successful and why they fail.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

No exceptions