ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN BUSINESS

By Assistant Professor OctavianDragomir Jora, Ph.D.

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

Spiritual values and entrepreneurial spirit.
Projection of a documentary movie and debate upon it:
The Call of the Entrepreneur (2007)

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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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DEBATE QUESTION on the movie
the call of the entrepreneur
1. Stewardship of talents: The intellectual divide between
religious leaders and entrepreneurs

2. The practical divide between religious leaders and
entrepreneurs

3. The propriety of moral outrage

4. Entrepreneurs and economists: family squabble or sibling
rivalry?

5. Entrepreneurship as s spiritual vocation

(Themes based upon the chapters of the homonym book by Robert A. Sirico)
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