EIN1004 : Understanding Business Growth
- Offered for Year: 2026/27
- Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
- Module Leader(s): Dr Natalya Radko
- Owning School: Newcastle University Business School
- Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters
Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.
| Semester 2 Credit Value: | 20 |
| ECTS Credits: | 10.0 |
| European Credit Transfer System | |
Pre-requisite
Modules you must have done previously to study this module
Pre Requisite Comment
N/A
Co-Requisite
Modules you need to take at the same time
Co Requisite Comment
N/A
Aims
Management and marketing is typically practiced so business growth and enterprise can occur. This module introduces students to business growth and entrepreneurship and allow developing critical thinking grounded in different disciplines. As a main theme, it considers how marketing and management theories and practices relate to business growth. It does this by addressing a number of key social-scientific questions linked to business growth, of relevance to future marketers and managers. The module integrate multidisciplinary perspective where additionally to marketing and management theories the content would allow students to understand business growth within psychology, anthropology, and criminology debates.
Learning activities will be organised to give students initial understanding of the business growth from the perspectives of social science debates during the lectures, while seminars will be structured around in-depth discussions and feedback on assessment preparation.
Outline Of Syllabus
The syllabus of the module is structured around the following themes:
- business growth: definitions, measurements and polemics;
- the nature/nurture debate and its relationship to entrepreneurs;
- illegitimate and legitimate business growth;
- threats to business growth;
- creativity and business growth;
- organisational socialisation and the pursuit of business growth;
- human dynamics and their links to business growth;
- identity, hegemony and business growth;
- enterprise policies and entrepreneurship.
Teaching Methods
Teaching Activities
| Category | Activity | Number | Length | Student Hours | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Lecture | 18 | 1:00 | 18:00 | In total 18 hours of lectures spread across the semester |
| Guided Independent Study | Assessment preparation and completion | 1 | 50:00 | 50:00 | N/A |
| Guided Independent Study | Directed research and reading | 1 | 50:00 | 50:00 | N/A |
| Scheduled Learning And Teaching Activities | Small group teaching | 6 | 2:00 | 12:00 | PIP, spread across both semesters |
| Guided Independent Study | Independent study | 1 | 70:00 | 70:00 | N/A |
| Total | 200:00 |
Teaching Rationale And Relationship
This module utilises an active learning approach where students are invited to understand themselves as learners, what will empower them to take charge of their own learning and development.
Students will go through lecture-based learning and group-based discussions in class, as well as other synchronised and non-synchronised learning activities (e.g. structured reading, Q&A sessions).
Assessment Methods
The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners
Exams
| Description | Length | Semester | When Set | Percentage | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Written Examination | 120 | 2 | A | 100 | Individual written work |
Formative Assessments
Formative Assessment is an assessment which develops your skills in being assessed, allows for you to receive feedback, and prepares you for being assessed. However, it does not count to your final mark.
| Description | Semester | When Set | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Written exercise | 1 | A | Time will be allocated towards the end of semester to get a direction and feedback on the assignment |
Assessment Rationale And Relationship
At the end of semester, students will write an essay. This will be worth 100% of their final grade for the module. The essay will see students explore growth, contextualise and conceptualise growth in relation to at least two themes taught in the semester.
Reading Lists
Timetable
- Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
- EIN1004's Timetable