Recently added articles from Journal of Entrepreneurship Education:
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Jan 01, 2006; ... Welcome to the Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, a publication dedicated to the study, research and dissemination of information pertinent to improvement of methodologies and effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. The editorial board considers three types of manuscripts. First is ...
ACADEMICALLY BASED ENTREPRENEURSHIP CENTERS: AN EXPLORATION OF STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This paper describes the results of a national survey of directors of academically based entrepreneurship centers at colleges or universities. The results will be of interest to current and prospective center directors, faculty associated with such centers and administrators ...
INNOVATION IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT There is an increasing need for innovation in business education to address and develop the characteristics and skills of those considering an entrepreneurial career. We describe two curriculum innovations taking place in a business school program that target the development of ...
A 21st CENTURY MODEL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: OVERCOMING TRADITIONAL BARRIERS TO LEARNING
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT This paper introduces scholars in the discipline of entrepreneurship to a 21st century model of delivering interdisciplinary entrepreneurship education. The basic premise behind the model truly differentiates it from common entrepreneurship programs, which is the capability to ...
EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS NON-PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS THAT INFLUENCE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS' ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOUR
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT It is well known that entrepreneurship plays a key role in boosting innovation and well-being in an economy, but researchers have shed little light on how universities can motivate this propensity. In this current paper, our aim is to examine which complementary education and ...
THE EFFECTS OF PERSONALITY AND EXPERIENCE ON RESOURCE ACQUISITION PERFORMANCE: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Nexus theory (Venkataraman, 1997; Shane & Venkataraman, 2000; Shane, 2003) predicts that entrepreneurial behavior will result from an interaction of the quality of the opportunity and the entrepreneur's psychological characteristics and experience. In this paper, we utilized ...
ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE AND ENTREPRENEURIAL DISPOSITIONS IN ELEMENTARY STUDENTS: THE ENTREPRENEURS IN KENTUCKY INITIATIVE
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Entrepreneurship education has received increased attention at all levels of education. National content standards for entrepreneurship education have been developed that address content knowledge and attitudinal dispositions at elementary, middle, high school, and university ...
MINDING OUR BUSINESS: A MODEL OF SERVICE-LEARNING IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT Minding Our Business (MOB) is a service-learning program designed to meet community needs by advancing the personal and vocational development of urban youth through entrepreneurship education and mentoring. This paper evaluates the effectiveness of MOB as a service-learning ...
MANAGING BUSINESS PLANNING PROJECTS IN ACADEMIA
Jan 01, 2006; ... ABSTRACT In this paper, we identify the challenges encountered by student teams when developing business plans in academia. We describe a robust planning framework developed to facilitate management of these projects and illustrate its application via case studies in the development of ...
LETTER FROM THE EDITOR
Jan 01, 2005; ... Welcome to the Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, a publication dedicated to the dissemination of information pertinent to improvement of methodologies and effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. The editorial board considers two types of manuscripts. First, we invite empirical research ...
ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: SALVATION OR DAMNATION?
Jan 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT Many researchers, and policy makers, across Europe emphasise entrepreneurship education as the way to a future new welfare society. Why? The aim of this article is to discuss critically entrepreneurship education, starting in contemporary European research on entrepreneurship ....
TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO AT-RISK STUDENTS IN THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA
Jan 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT The ASU SIFE Team participated in developed a program that was funded by a grant from the Horizon Institute of Technology. This program offered 28 at-risk students from two Arkansas delta school districts, Osceola and Forrest City, an opportunity to explore the role of ...
ENTREPRENEURS IN ACTION!: A TEAM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
Jan 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT This paper describes a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching entrepreneurship to a diverse group of students, i.e. Engineering and Human and Organizational Development students. The paper reports on the curriculum process used with these diverse groups of students and how ...
BOOTSTRAPPING BUSINESS START-UPS: ENTREPRENEURSHIP LITERATURE, TEXTBOOKS, AND TEACHING PRACTICES VERSUS CURRENT BUSINESS PRACTICES?
Jan 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT Existing scholarly research on bootstrapping is limited, despite the widespread use of bootstrapping strategies in actual practice among start-up entrepreneurs. Popular academic textbooks used in college and university entrepreneurship courses seldom provide in-depth coverage of ...
A PROPOSED EXAMINATION OF SELF-EFFICACY AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN EXPERIENTIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION AND VARIOUS PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES
Jan 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT An important goal in higher education is to give students the tools needed to help them to be successful in their future endeavors. Traditionally, in business schools, these tools included teaching students the functional areas such as finance, accounting and marketing. As ...
FORMULATION OF ECONOMIC ATTITUDES AND VALUES: A CASE STUDY OF THE FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS OF AMERICA
Jan 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT This study measured the economic attitudes and values of a random sample of young Americans (Future Business Leaders of America members (FBLA)) towards the American Economic System and its essential elements: profits, economic freedom, competition, corporate taxes, business ...
ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH: USING STUDENTS AS PROXIES FOR ACTUAL ENTREPRENEURS
Jan 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT This paper considers the practice of using university undergraduate as proxies for small business owners in entrepreneurship research. A data set was gathered from a sample of university undergraduate students at a major business school as well as from a sample of actual small ...
IMPROVING ADULT CREATIVITY USING THERAPEUTIC MODELS
Jan 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT This study examined changes in creativity among undergraduate students at a major southeastern United States university. The focus was on the interactions between 36 students and their professor within the context of the requirements for their coursework on organizational ...
COLLABORATIVE TEACHING BETWEEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SPORT MARKETING CLASSES
Jan 01, 2005; ... ABSTRACT Two different classes in two different academic departments attempted a collaborative teaching effort at a Midwestern state university. Previous research was used to create the class, specifically Michael Morris' SEE model, and recent research was used again to evaluate the ...