Enterprise (Family Enterprises) MA

Family enterprises make up a significant percentage of businesses across the world and play an integral role in building our respective nations. However, they face unique challenges that require specialist skills and knowledge.
This pathway enables you to address the universal issues as they apply to your own family business. It combines rigorous learning with practical workshops. You will explore a wide range of topics relating to the nature and dynamics of entrepreneurial families. Topics include defining family entrepreneurship versus family business, identifying the pervasiveness of family entrepreneurship and its economic and social contributions, governance and succession in entrepreneurial families and the management of change and transgenerational value creation.
Whether you intend to start a new venture, run a creative organisation, or join a family business, an enterprising mind-set is essential. MA Enterprise provides the vital training to enhance your business acumen so you can become an effective entrepreneur in your chosen field.
More than any other business discipline, entrepreneurialism is about having the right attitude and mind-set. This cannot happen purely within a classroom environment. You need to get your ideas out there, fail early and often, and develop the grit and resilience needed to succeed.
MA Enterprise offers a participant experience that bridges the gap between academia and industry experience.
You will have the platform to test out your ideas, collaborate with peers and mentors, and learn how to solve complex enterprise-related problems.
Using a range of case studies, you will examine different business models – from start-ups to high growth organisations. This knowledge will help you to recognise the practical and ethical dimensions of enterprise, giving you the skills to develop effective solutions.
You will also learn how to determine the managerial and resource priorities that are required to enable enterpris