{"title":"A course design approach that encourages reflective practice habits","authors":"Lyn Daff , Cathy Tame , John Sands","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100990","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Reflective practice is a valuable workplace skill for graduates, enhancing learning, improving performance and advancing professional development. Concerns that graduates often lack the competencies required for critical and deep reflection on their abilities and knowledge are seen in diverse countries. There has been little growth in comprehending how students transition their application of reflection to the fostering of life-long habits of reflective practice. Additionally, the question of how to foster learning that carries through to the workplace needs further attention. This project addresses the challenge of studying students’ responses to reflective practice in different courses. It examines an approach to developing reflective practice skills and habits in a capstone accounting course. The research explains the process of fostering and assessing reflective practice and evaluates the effectiveness of the approach. The findings identify that students produced reflections with various elements that contribute to quality reflections. Incorporating self-identified goal-setting and review assisted in the development of habits of reflection. Students gained confidence in reflective practice and articulated their commitment to using reflective practice in the future. This research will interest educators across disciplines in their teaching and assessment of reflective practice.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1472811724000612/pdfft?md5=9fa4dc5b303a91b1d464863e0d188fa5&pid=1-s2.0-S1472811724000612-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140906228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing higher entrepreneurship education: Insights from practitioners for curriculum improvement","authors":"Victor Tiberius , Michael Weyland","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100981","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Curricula for higher entrepreneurship education should meet the requirements of both a solid theoretical foundation and a practical orientation. When these curricula are designed by education specialists, entrepreneurs are usually not consulted. To explore practitioners’ curricular recommendations, we conducted 73 semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs with at least five years of professional experience. We collected 49 items for teaching and learning objectives, 37 for contents, 28 for teaching methods, and 17 for assessment methods. The respondents are convinced that students should acquire solid knowledge in business and management, legal issues, and entrepreneurship. For the latter, only some core aspects are provided. The entrepreneurs put greater emphasis on entrepreneurial skills and attitudes and consider experiential learning designs as most suitable, both in the secure setting of the classroom and in real life. The findings can help reflect on current entrepreneurship curriculum designs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140824720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lise Janssens , Tom Kuppens , Pernilla Andersson , Katrien Struyven
{"title":"Transformative learning in business economics education: The development of a measurement instrument to detect student perspectives","authors":"Lise Janssens , Tom Kuppens , Pernilla Andersson , Katrien Struyven","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100988","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous studies of business economics education have highlighted differences regarding the role of businesses towards sustainability, as articulated by teachers, students and in textbooks. The roles differ from externally motivated (following law and customers) to internally driven (creating new routes) to address sustainability in the business context. Changes by students in their perspectives on the role of a business in relation to sustainability can be seen as examples of a transformative learning experience in the context of business economics education. This paper presents a measurement instrument of 12 items on a five-point Likert scale to measure the views of students regarding the role of a responsible businessperson. A mixed-methods approach was used to develop, test and validate the instrument. Data were gathered by business economics students at Hasselt University. The added value of the instrument is that it can be used in educational practice and in further research to indicate whether transformative learning is happening in the context of business education and to gain insight into students' views on the role of a responsible businessperson. The instrument goes beyond existing attitude, knowledge and competence scales and contributes to assessing transformative learning for sustainable development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140824781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel López-Carril , María Rodríguez-García , Alicia Mas-Tur
{"title":"TED Talks and entrepreneurial intention in higher education: A fsQCA approach","authors":"Samuel López-Carril , María Rodríguez-García , Alicia Mas-Tur","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100980","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100980","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Higher education institutions are aware of the importance of entrepreneurship education in reflecting real-life scenarios and increasing students' professional opportunities. Universities attempt to nurture students' entrepreneurial skills and awaken their entrepreneurial intention through specific or transversal entrepreneurship courses in a wide variety of degree programs. By using active learning techniques, such as TED Talks, students can improve their entrepreneurial intention. However, the potential of TED Talks to stimulate students' entrepreneurial skills and intention has not yet been studied from a multicausal perspective. This study contributes to the entrepreneurship literature by describing an educational experience based on active learning at a Spanish university. TED Talks were introduced to stimulate entrepreneurial intention in undergraduate students (n = 25) and master's degree students (n = 32). The impact of the experience was assessed using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Given this approach, no single characteristic was found to lead to high (or low) levels of entrepreneurial intention in students. Instead, combinations of factors were found to cause this outcome. The findings show different student profiles that lead to high and low entrepreneurial intention. The findings thus confirm the multicausal nature of entrepreneurship in higher education institutions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S147281172400051X/pdfft?md5=39630856f8a76d5c67782082ede10592&pid=1-s2.0-S147281172400051X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140824780","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elisa Baraibar-Diez, María D. Odriozola, Ignacio Llorente
{"title":"Exploring learning congruence and the availability of diverse educational resources: A study conducted in the field of management education","authors":"Elisa Baraibar-Diez, María D. Odriozola, Ignacio Llorente","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Teaching innovation entails constantly adapting to evolving learning environments and diverse audiences. University educators have generated a plethora of materials to accommodate various modes of instruction, such as distance learning, blended learning, or synchronous and asynchronous teaching systems, facing a multitude of learning profiles and study techniques in a classroom. This diversity led us to propose the same content from a business administration course in different formats: text-based, graphics-based and audio-based materials. The use of different materials is attractive for students because of their novelty, but lecturers are unaware of their effectiveness in their learning outcomes. In order to explore these implications in management education, this research aims at finding out whether the availability of various types of educational materials in a business administration course and the congruence between declared learning preferences and the type of material received influences students’ learning outcomes. The results of an experiment carried out on 253 first-year students of the course Introduction to Business Economics show, in line with other studies, that the relationship is not direct but that having a variety of materials available is more responsive to the reality of the student body and increases satisfaction and active learning.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1472811724000569/pdfft?md5=7d72d3825deea11e794319d32f804518&pid=1-s2.0-S1472811724000569-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140644420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rita G. Klapper PhD , Paul J. Upham , Theresa Oberstrass
{"title":"Transformative pedagogy for sustainable entrepreneurship and technology innovation: The case of EIT climate KIC training","authors":"Rita G. Klapper PhD , Paul J. Upham , Theresa Oberstrass","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100971","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>There is to date little research on the pedagogy of entrepreneurship and innovation aligned with sustainability. This study makes a case for, and empirically investigates, the value of a pedagogical approach to sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation that is intended to be transformative of participants. Following Sipos et al. (2008), we propose that such an approach should address all three pedagogical dimensions of abstract knowledge (head), practical competences (hands), and motivation (affect or heart). We take as an empirical probe the training offered by the European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) <span>Climate-KIC</span> graduate education programme, a European Commission-funded initiative to develop sustainability-oriented technology entrepreneurs and innovators. Repertory grid-based interviews are undertaken with two cohorts of students, investigating the proposition that transformative, multidimensional approaches are appropriate for sustainable entrepreneurship education. We are presenting here an insider view of an EIT learning journey, a ‘lived experience’ view of how addressing all three pedagogical dimensions - Head, Hands and Heart – support transformative education in a sustainable entrepreneurship context. We argue that EIT training does offer all three educational elements and that these are viewed as valuable and transformative and that the affective dimension of learning had a strong impact on the participants. We observe that the concept of sustainable entrepreneurship seems to raise more cognitive and normative tensions than the concept of sustainable innovation, perhaps through the association of entrepreneurship with the profit motive.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140646276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring gender differences in Gen Z students’ attribution of obstacles influencing their academic and professional success","authors":"Isabel Fischer , John M. Luiz","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100989","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Universities are often criticised for perpetuating gender inequalities in the preparation of students for the workforce. Employing a mixed methods approach, we explore whether perceived obstacles to academic and professional success are gender-based. We analyse responses from generation Z management students (n = 405) using attribution theory. We find that students predominantly perceive ‘effort’ as an enabler to their future success with gender disparities emerging when examining the multifaceted obstacles to their future success. Out of all demographic characteristics analysed, gender, and particularly a perceived lack of confidence by female students, is the most predominant and statistically significant factor. Through in-depth qualitative research we develop our understanding of these gendered student attributions, highlighting their potential impact on long-term professional success and their contribution to future earning inequalities. We examine the implications of our findings for educators and propose proactive strategies to tackle gendered disparities in the student experience.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1472811724000600/pdfft?md5=1de0048dac567b7def017590adb63ba5&pid=1-s2.0-S1472811724000600-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140641517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entrepreneurial implementation intention: The role of psychological capital and entrepreneurship education","authors":"Mohamed Yacine Haddoud , Witold Nowiński , Rahma Laouiti , Adah-Kole Emmanuel Onjewu","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100982","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Scholars and policymakers are increasingly interested in the influence of Entrepreneurship Education on entrepreneurial attitudes, as well as in the human capital developed from entrepreneurship programs. Thus, to further clarify the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education as a catalyst for entrepreneurial activity, this study investigates the intervening role of psychological capital in the link between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial behavior. To interrogate this premise, a sample of 262 UK students is examined by a structural equation model. The proposed model draws on an integrated social cognitive career theory with a PsyCap lens. The results indicate that although psychological capital partially mediates the influence of entrepreneurship education on Entrepreneurial Intention, this outcome is mainly driven by the effects of hope and self-efficacy, with hope bearing a stronger influence. Surprisingly, the anticipated impact of optimism and resilience did not materialize. These findings pose important implications for theory and practice by offering a more holistic framework underlying the EE-EI nexus.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140641515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entrepreneurship education and business and science students’ green entrepreneurial intentions: The role of green entrepreneurial self-efficacy and environmental awareness","authors":"Emmanuel Ruwaichi Mambali , Mariam Said Kapipi , Ismail Abdi Changalima","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100987","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Entrepreneurship education (EE) is widely acknowledged as a proactive approach to fostering self-employment opportunities among young individuals. This study investigates the role of green entrepreneurial self-efficacy (GESE) and environmental awareness (ENVA) on the influence of EE on green entrepreneurial intentions (GEI) among both business and science students. We used a PLS-SEM to analyze data obtained from 412 Tanzanian students who completed a structured questionnaire. The findings indicate that EE has a positive and significant direct and indirect effect on GEI through GESE. Additionally, both GESE and ENVA exhibit positive and significant effects on GEI. Moreover, the study highlights that ENVA strengthens the effect of GESE on GEI. The results from a multigroup analysis uncovered significant differences in some hypothesized relationships between business and science students, with science students demonstrating stronger effects compared to business students. Our findings carry implications both practitioners and academics. Firstly, this study contributes to overarching development goals concerning education and environmentally friendly practices. Secondly, it furnishes empirical insights explaining the role of EE in nurturing environmentally conscious entrepreneurship. Lastly, our research serves as a catalyst for managers and policymakers to enhance entrepreneurial programs by integrating green entrepreneurship initiatives.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140641516","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Students’ individual entrepreneurial orientation and the scope of startup activities in Russia: The role of university infrastructure","authors":"Virginia Bodolica , Galina Shirokova , Daria Ragulina , Anastasia Lushnikova","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2024.100986","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The development of startup activity among students is often considered a key ingredient to increasing entrepreneurship levels and reducing unemployment rates among youth. This study examines the role of personal characteristics and university infrastructure components in the context of nascent entrepreneurship in an emerging market setting. Drawing on the self-efficacy perspective, we theorize the effect of students' individual entrepreneurial orientation on the scope of their startup activity. Based on the university embeddedness theory, we further explore whether the university entrepreneurial environment and entrepreneurial program learning moderate this relationship. Our sample was drawn from the 2021 GUESSS project, which includes 1521 students from 21 universities in Russia. Data were analyzed using hierarchical multiple regression models with the help of Stata MP software. We found that individual entrepreneurial orientation increases the scope of students' startup activities, and the university entrepreneurial environment that is evaluated above the median score strengthens this relationship, while the entrepreneurial program learning has no effect. Our research seeks to draw researchers' and practitioners' attention to the need of both exploring the nuances of students’ personal traits that influence their involvement in startup activities and building an effective university entrepreneurial ecosystem to stimulate entrepreneurial endeavors among youth.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140637818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}