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Postgraduate Course: Family Business Management (MSc) (CMSE11158)

Course Outline
SchoolBusiness School CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits15
Home subject areaCommon Courses (Management School) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe family business organisation is one of the oldest business models, and remains important and relevant. Smaller family businesses form the majority of businesses world-side and larger family businesses continue to dominate in many countries. Even in countries such as the UK and the USA where corporate business is paramount, many large corporations are still partially owned and influenced by prominent families. The course is intended as an option for MBA students who have an interest in family business. The aim of the course is to promote understanding of the nature of family businesses and business families, their contribution to economy and society, the distinctiveness of family owner managed and entrepreneurial styles of management, the problems faced by family businesses, and how these problems can be overcome.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?No
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course students should be able to:

- appreciate the difficulties in defining family business objectively, and the ideological importance of family business in Western models of capitalism and understand the implications if the family business is re-conceptualised as the business family

- comprehend the emergence and lifecycle of family businesses and appreciate what characterises business families that have survived for several generations

- discuss there is a distinctive style of family business management, and if so, whether it is a less evolved style, superseded by modern forms of corporate management, or whether it is a style that still retains its relevance

- assess whether it is possible to integrate effectively both styles of management and if so, how this could be accomplished

- identify whether family businesses and business families experience special problems in conducting business

- problems identified in the literature include agency, gender, coping with growth, succession and renewal

- analyse certain real world management problems faced by family businesses

- assimilate, communicate and present critical evaluations of relevant sources of information

- prepare and present to a professional standard an appropriate report on their work.
Assessment Information
Individual Assignment 1 (50%)
Group assignment - Research Project (50%)
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Omaima Hatem
Tel: (0131 6)50 3815
Email: Omaima.Hatem@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Rachel Allan
Tel: (0131 6)51 3757
Email: Rachel.Allan@ed.ac.uk
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