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LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
The student should be able to
- describe and reflect upon how economic evolution is a condition of all business
activity
- describe 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
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 and how to analyse the ways companies were acting under those conditions.
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 were changing from time to time and giving examples of how companies were acting in respect of organization, innovation, strategy and marketing.
COURSE SUBJECT AREAS:
Business history
Strategy
Organisation
Innovation
Marketing and Strategy
NOTE:
The course cannot be part of a study program together with Danish business history at Institute of History and Area Studies.
TEACHING METHOD: 1) Lectures presenting an overview of Danish business history.
2) Exercises where the students will cooperate in smaller groups and
acquire an ability to analyse cases in a historical and business economic perspective.
3) Individual discussions with the students based on a synopsis of their project report.
1) Jørgen Fink: Dansk erhvervshistorie 1848-2008, 1-2. Version 3, 2010. 800 pages
2) Jørgen Fink og Michael Bruun (red.): Kilder til dansk erhvervshistorie 1848-2008. Version 3, 2010. 125 pages
Both books have to be ordered at the first lecture
Project reports (15 pages) followed by an oral examination of 20 min.
