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7215: Danish Business History 1848-2008 ( forår 2009 - 5 ECTS )

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• Uddannelsessprog: dansk
• Niveau: COURSE LEVEL: Elective bachelor's and master's level course.  
• Semester/kvarter: SEMESTER FOR WHICH THE COURSE DESCRIPTION APPLIES: Spring 2009.  
• Timer per uge: NUMBER OF HOURS PER WEEK: 2 lectures per week for 12 weeks.  
• Deltagerbegrænsning: RESTRICTIONS ON ADMISSION: None.  
• Undervisningssted: Århus
• Hovedområde: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
• Udbud ID: 15140

Formål

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

The student should be able to analyse and reflect upon how economic evolution is a condition of all business activity analyse and reflect upon what has been characteristic of business activity in Denmark at different points of time apply a business historical perspective in case studies of trades and companies.

Indhold

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course is intended to provide an overview of Danish business history since the middle of the 19th century. The students will get an understanding of what has been recurrent and what has been specific in 160 years of business evolution in Denmark.

The focus will be on the changing conditions for making business throughout this period. The course will take place as a combination of lectures giving an overview and exercises taking a number of Danish companies as cases showing how possibilities of action was changing from time to time and giving examples of how companies were acting in respect of organization, innovation, strategy, marketing etc.

COURSE SUBJECT AREAS:

Business history
Strategy Marketing
Organisation
Innovation.

Faglige forudsætninger

REQUIRED COURSES:

None.

Underviser

LECTURER:

Jørgen Fink and Michael Bruun.

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

TEACHING METHOD:

Lectures presenting an overview of Danish business history combined with exercises where the students will cooperate in smaller groups and acquire an ability to analyse cases in a historical and business economic perspective.

Litteratur

LITERATURE:

1) Jørgen Fink: Dansk erhvervshistorie 1848-2008. Version 2. (350 pages)

2) Compendium of texts (annual reports, minutes, biographical evidence etc.) describing different aspects of the companies chosen as cases (approx. 150 pages)

(Both books are sold at Stakbogladen. They have to be ordered by mail to hisjf@hum.au.dk before January the 15th 2009)

Total page count: Approx. 450 pages.

Studieordning og bedømmelse

Bacheloruddannelsen i økonomi

• Hj.opg., bedømt efter 7-skala med intern censur

Grundfaget i erhvervsøkonomi

• Hj.opg., bedømt efter 7-skala med intern censur

FORM OF ASSESSMENT:

Project reports (10 pages) followed by an oral examination of 20 min. duration based on the project report.

EXAMINATION AIDS ALLOWED:

Only the project report.