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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Entrepreneurial Learning"”.
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Entrepreneurial learning in multigenerational family business succession
… body of literature, little known as to how entrepreneurial learning process could potentially help in multigenerational family businesses to succeed. The main purpose of this study is to explore the role of entrepreneurial learning contributing to the multigenerational family business …
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An Examination of Students' Entrepreneurial Learning through Extracurricular Enterprise Activities
… (Rae et al., 2012), as has the domain of entrepreneurial learning research (Wang and Chugh, 2014) yet limited empirical research examines links between the two phenomena. This thesis connects educational theory, entrepreneurial learning theory and entrepreneurial education research to …
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Learning to design learning through design : service design and experientially acquired entrepreneurial learning
… of the emerging practice of Service Design in Entrepreneurial Learning, or the creation of knowledge that supports shaping and managing new ventures. It is supported by an empirical investigation spanning a pilot study and two case studies in the contexts of enterprise education for nascent …
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The contribution of mentorship as an entrepreneurial learning mechanism for South African entrepreneurs
… in the field of mentorship as a mechanism for entrepreneurial learning suggests a requirement for more studies. Previous empirical research in the field has predominantly focussed on the workplace context and not the entrepreneur. The current research available in the field of entrepreneurial …
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The mature learner: understanding entrepreneurial learning processes of university students from a social constructivist perspective.
… and Anderson 2002; Rae 2001). Consequently, entrepreneurial learning is understood as a social learning process (Korsgaard and Anderson 2011) of profoundly experiential nature (Krueger 2007). The thesis addresses the development of entrepreneurship education and discusses the discrepancy …
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Creating the conditions for entrepreneurial learning within an inclusive and scalable African business education ecosystem
… entrepreneurs, creates the conditions where an entrepreneurial culture cannot thrive. Entrepreneurship and education can be South Africa's most significant tools of liberation and unlock exponential growth which can, in turn, address the socio-economic problems that exist. This research aims to …
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ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING PROCESSES UNDERLYING ENTREPRENEURIAL STRATEGIC RENEWAL WITHIN GROWTH-ORIENTED SMALL FIRMS: A SITUATED LEARNING THEORY PERSPECTIVE
… of this study is to examine the organisational learning (OL) processes underlying entrepreneurial strategic renewal in growth-oriented small firms. Specifically, Situated Learning Theory (SLT) is applied as the major analytical lens to scrutinise the generation, dissemination and use of …
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Our Voices, Our Stories: The Role of Gender in Family Business Succession in Canada
… as an ideal setting in which to understand entrepreneurial learning due to the embeddedness of students in both family and educational systems. Utilizing narrative inquiry and narrative interviews, this research explored the interplay of gender, leadership, and family business systems …
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An exploration of women entrepreneurs' competency development process in pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities in the manufacturing sector in Ghana
… through relevant policies prioritising building entrepreneurial capabilities and providing special credit to female entrepreneurs in manufacturing to address gender discrimination in access to financial resources and disparity in capabilities to manage entrepreneurial ventures. The role of owner …
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Entrepreneurship inside and out: Three essays exploring the interplay between hybrid entrepreneurs and their organizational employee roles
… a new form of interrole dynamics: employee and entrepreneurial role interactions. Through three essays, I conceptually and empirically explore the effects of engaging in hybrid entrepreneurship on outcomes associated with employee and entrepreneurial roles. In Essay One I present a theoretical …
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The Architecture of Stakeholder Collaboration: Unpacking Institutional Enablers and Constraints in University Entrepreneurship Education
… limited industry engagement, and a gap between entrepreneurial learning and venture creation. Although collaboration is widely recognised as essential to effective EE ecosystems, much of the existing literature conceptualises collaboration through narrow dyadic lenses, such as …
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How do attitudes of habitual high-technology entrepreneurs to early-stage failure differ in Silicon Valley, Cambridge and Munich?
… regional differences in such attitudes and entrepreneurial responses. There is much literature on entrepreneurial failure but relatively little that is focused on attitudes to failure, the high-technology industry, or international comparisons. This thesis examines how entrepreneurs’ …
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Staying the course: the life stories of eight entrepreneurial women
… study was my own curiosity about how seasoned entrepreneurial women were able to stay the course. As someone who has experienced the world of the employee and that of the entrepreneur, my goal was to better understand how, within their varied personal contexts, the lifelong learning experiences …
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SOCIO-COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURING
… to explore cognitive and social dimensions of entrepreneurial creativity and innovation. I interviewed 32 technology entrepreneurs to generate a grounded theory about how technology entrepreneurs use social behaviors, techniques and cognitive processes to attain, develop, refine, validate and …
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An outcomes evaluation for the Allan Gray Orbis Foundation's Fellowship Programme
… The Fellowship programme is an extracurricular entrepreneurial education programme that aims to develop high achieving individuals in their academic, personal, and entrepreneurial spheres. Students enter the programme in the first year of their degree and graduate the programme after four years. …
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The pedagogy and practice of real estate management in Nigeria : Entrepreneurial perspectives.
… issue in the Nigerian education system. The learning and teaching of entrepreneurship in the country takes a top-down approach in which basic business start-up skills are taught to all students in a generic course irrespective of their specific disciplines. At the moment no consideration has …
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The pedagogy and practice of real estate anagement in Nigeria: entrepreneurial perspectives
… issue in the Nigerian education system. The learning and teaching of entrepreneurship in the country takes a top-down approach in which basic business start-up skills are taught to all students in a generic course irrespective of their specific disciplines. At the moment no consideration has …
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Entrepreneurship education courses across multidisciplinary programmes at a South African university of technology: educator and student perspectives
… education without assimilating its entrepreneurial flavour, (b) curriculum designers of multi-disciplinary programmes and course planners of entrepreneurship education, and (c) educators in entrepreneurship education aiming to develop not only their teaching practice in this field …
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Entrepreneurship and the creative industries: a qualitative study of attitudes towards entrepreneurship and enterprise education within Northern Ireland’s visual arts and theatre sectors.
… subsidy to one of financial independence through entrepreneurial self-reliance. With around one-third of all self-employed first degree graduates in the UK coming from creative arts disciplines, the thesis uncovers the current state of and attitudes towards an enterprise curriculum for visual arts …
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A Narrative Inquiry of Student Engagement and Learning in a University-Based Social Venture Plan Competition
… highly publicized success stories. Designed as a learning-by-doing approach, SVPCs are meant to simulate how entrepreneurs are thought to learn. For ethical reasons, it is not possible to create the ambiguity and uncertainty typical of new venture creation. Consequently, critics have cautioned …
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