Management

Management

Strategy and Entrepreneurship

What is Strategy and Entrepreneurship?

This is the name for one of the Majors available within the B.Com degree. The subject areas covered by this Major include Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development, and International Entrepreneurship. The focus of these subjects is to show how managers can configure businesses and organizations to meet the needs of markets and fulfill their owners' objectives. The Major is designed to balance skills in analysis and formulation of strategy with the knowledge of business functions that is inherent in developing businesses successfully.

Why study Strategy and Entrepreneurship?

Courses in Strategy and Entrepreneurship foster integrative thinking about business problems. They open up career opportunities in general management or management consulting, for example through graduate training programmes. They will also assist graduates seeking to work in smaller firms and those who would like to run their own businesses. In addition, the courses usefully complement other business and management disciplines, for example general management, international business, marketing or human resource management.

Degree structure

Strategy and Entrepreneurship is offered as a Major within the B.Com degree. Students who complete the B.Com with good grades (and pass MGMT280) can also take the B.Com Honours (1-year) and M.Com (2-year) degrees in Strategy and Entrepreneurship. Students taking other B.Com Majors can also take some Strategy and Entrepreneurship courses, especially those taking the Major in Management, the Major in International Business, and the Major in Marketing.

Strategy and Entrepreneurship courses are also available within the MBA programme and the MBM programme.

The University Calendar, the Enrolment Handbook, and the relevant programme brochures and web pages give full details of these degree options.

BCom Major in Strategy and Entrepreneurship

In order to qualify for a Bachelor of Commerce degree with a major in Strategy and Entrepreneurship, a candidate must successfully complete the following courses from the Schedule to the Regulations in addition to the Core Courses for the degree of Bachelor of Commerce specified in Schedule A (see Calendar regulations).

100-level

200-level

300-level

Students intending to major in Strategy and Entrepreneurship should carefully examine the prerequisites and other details of the courses in the Course Catalogue section of this Calendar to ensure that they plan an appropriate pathway to the 200-level and 300-level courses they wish to take. Students intending to complete a B.Com (Hons) or M.Com degree will need to take MGMT280.

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Contact Information

For information about courses contact:

Phone: 03 364 2606
Fax: 03 364 2020
Freephone: 0800 827 748 (in New Zealand)
enquiry@mang.canterbury.ac.nz or e-mail the relevant staff members teaching the courses.

Department of Management
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch 8140
New Zealand

For general information on University courses or enrolment procedures:

University Liaison Officer
Telephone 03 364 2993
liaison@canterbury.ac.nz