Business education in emerging economies
DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2008.016131 | Ilan Alon, John R. McIntyre | Higher education has become the basic education of the knowledge economy. Yet in transitioning, emerging and developing countries, resources for higher education, and indeed higher educational systems themselves, remain inadequate. Urgent a... | 5 - 27 |
Entrepreneurship and education. The missing link in international development theory and practice
DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2008.016131 | Paul Dragos Aligica, Bogdan Florian | Education and entrepreneurship are commonly considered major factors of economic development. If that is the case, one would expect that the international development organisations give a special attention to initiatives promoting education... | 28 - 38 |
A theoretical framework for teaching and learning entrepreneurship
DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2008.016131 | Paula Kyro | Recent research on entrepreneurship education has moved from content questions to the process of learning and teaching. This assumes that we actually have conceptual frameworks for combining learning to teaching. This paper presents a gener... | 39 - 55 |
Swedish inter-organisational learning network: outcomes in three dimensions
DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2008.016131 | Pontus Bergh | Based on findings from a national Swedish competence development project, known as krAft, this study focuses on the relevance of inter-organisational learning networks set up to support managerial competence development in SMEs. The network... | 56 - 71 |
The long-term effects of active entrepreneurial training on business school students| and graduates| attitudes towards entrepreneurship
DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2008.016131 | Jean-Charles Cachon, Barry Cotton | At Laurentian University (Ontario, Canada), all second-year Business students complete an entrepreneurial active learning experience by preparing a comprehensive business plan over six months. Students develop an original business idea, per... | 72 - 91 |
Differences in attitudes toward business training: African-American female and male small business owners
DOI: 10.1504/IJBG.2008.016131 | Warren Martin, Barbara A. Wech, John Sandefur | The attitudes towards the importance of small business development training courses are documented for African-American male and female small business owners. Results found that females preferred different training methods and topics. The r... | 92 - 102 |
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