Title: Teamwork competence and collaborative learning in entrepreneurship training

Authors: Melany Hebles; Concepción Yaniz-Alvarez-de-Eulate; Mauricio Jara

Addresses: Departamento de Administración, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Alonso Ribera 2850, C.P.: 4090541, Concepción, Chile ' Departamento de Didáctica y Desarrollo Curricular, Facultad de Psicología y Educación, Universidad de Deusto, Avenida de las Universidades 24, C.P.: 48007, Bilbao, Spain ' Business Department, School of Economics and Business, Universidad de Chile, Diagonal Paraguay 257, C.P.: 8330015, Santiago, Chile

Abstract: Given the dynamics of the business environment, training in teamwork competence is becoming increasingly important vis-à-vis improving entrepreneurship and innovation development processes in a multidisciplinary context. In this paper, we estimate differences in differences (DID) regressions to analyse the effect of cooperative learning on teamwork competence for a sample of individuals whose training is geared towards acquiring key competences such as entrepreneurship and innovation. A quasi-experimental design is used with a treatment and a control group of two cohorts of individuals. Our results show a significant effect of cooperative learning on collective efficacy, planning, establishment of objectives, problem solving and conflict management. We contribute to student training in a competence that is highly valued in the professional sphere and to current understanding of what effect cooperative learning has from its different components in teamwork training.

Keywords: teamwork competence; university teaching; cooperative learning; innovation; entrepreneurship.

DOI: 10.1504/EJIM.2023.131368

European Journal of International Management, 2023 Vol.20 No.2, pp.238 - 255

Received: 08 Mar 2019
Accepted: 26 Apr 2019
Published online: 09 Jun 2023 *

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