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7215: Danish Business History 1848-2008 (5 ECTS) ( forår 2010 - 5 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

• Uddannelsessprog: dansk
• Niveau: COURSE LEVEL: Elective bachelor's and master's level course.  
• Semester/kvarter: SEMESTER FOR WHICH THE COURSE DESCRIPTION APPLIES: Spring 2010  
• Timer per uge: NUMBER OF HOURS PER WEEK: 3 lectures per week for 8 weeks.  
• Deltagerbegrænsning: RESTRICTIONS ON ADMISSION: None.  
• Undervisningssted: Århus
• Hovedområde: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
• Udbud ID: 17587

Formål

The student should be able to
- describe and compare how overall economic conditions at different points of time have defined the possibilities of business activity
- describe what has been characteristic of business activity in Denmark at different points of time

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 lectures giving an overview and showing how possibilities of action were changing from time to time and giving examples of how to analyse the ways companies were acting in respect of organization, innovation, strategy and marketing.

COURSE SUBJECT AREAS:

Business history
Strategy Marketing
Organisation
Innovation.

Faglige forudsætninger

REQUIRED COURSES: 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.

Underviser

LECTURER:

Jørgen Fink and Michael Bruun.

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

TEACHING METHOD: Lectures presenting an overview of Danish business history and introducing methods of analysis at different levels of aggregation

Danish

Litteratur

LITERATURE:

1) Jørgen Fink: Dansk erhvervshistorie 1848-2008. Version 3. 800 pages
2) Jørgen Fink og Michael Bruun: Kilder til dansk erhvervshistorie 1848-2008. version 3 125 pages
(A Compendium of texts: annual reports, minutes, biographical evidence etc.
describing different aspects of the companies chosen as cases)

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: Oral examination of 20 min. duration

EXAMINATION AIDS ALLOWED: All - except any means of electronic communication including PCs.