The journal Entrepreneurship Education recently published five articles in Volume 5, Issue 1. This journal is the first English academic journal concerning entrepreneurship education in the Asia Pacific region. It is jointly founded by UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship Education at Zhejiang University and Springer.

Prof. Xiaozhou Xu, the Chair-holder of UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship Education at Zhejiang University, serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal. Arne Carlsen, former director of UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning, serves as the associate editor. Members of the editorial board are from universities and institutes in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, South Korea, Denmark, India, Croatia and other countries.

This journal is dedicated to exchanging the latest academic research and practical findings on various aspects of entrepreneurship education. It serves as a forum for the exchange of ideas among academic researchers, policy makers, and entrepreneurs, in order to explore practical experience and summarize theoretical reflections. The journal draws on high-quality work in social sciences, particularly in education, with an interdisciplinary and peer-reviewed approach. The journal primarily focuses on entrepreneurship education with a wide spectrum of sub-fields such as innovative education, technical and vocational education and training, maker education, lifelong learning and skill development, social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial universities, curriculum and instruction, policy and governance. It welcomes original research, review article, book review, and other types of manuscripts based on the method of international and comparison, policy analysis, case study, quantitative and qualitative study, etc.

Abstracts of the Five Articles

Effectuation and causation in the entrepreneurship classroom: learning obstacles of college students

Anastasios Sioukas

Abstract

Effectuation has taken center stage in entrepreneurship education. Yet, research demonstrates that effectuation and causation are used by entrepreneurs interchangeably as needed and that they are both positively related to venture performance. Furthermore, combining effectuation and causation has been shown to further enhance venture performance. This study synthesizes a model of entrepreneurship education that combines effectuation and causation and tests it through a process course for college students. Evidence shows that students embraced effectuation, causation, and their joint use. Data indicate three obstacles that prevented students from committing to their learning and the entrepreneurial process: low entrepreneurship readiness, the weaker structure of process courses, and perceived lack of outside resources.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41959-022-00065-z

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41959-022-00063-1

“Food chemistry”: High-stakes experiential entrepreneurship education in a pop-up restaurant project

Pauline A. Milwood & Sarah Hartman-Caverly

Abstract

In response to ongoing philosophical and pedagogical debates in university-based entrepreneurship education (EE) research, this study offers a cross-disciplinary perspective of how hospitality management students experience a high-stakes, experiential entrepreneurship project. We present vignettes of dialogues, experiences, and interactions among “student-manager” members of a small group engaged in developing and implementing a real-world, fine dining pop-up restaurant. By triangulating our analysis of classroom observation data, social network maps, and student artifacts, we chronicle four vignettes of how students experience learning during ideation, design, launch, and evaluation modules. Theory–practice gaps, coping humor in load–overload states, and complex affective–cognitive interactions emerge as salient elements of high-stakes experiential EE. We discuss implications for learners and educators and put forward recommendations to inform and improve the design of cross-disciplinary models of experiential EE.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41959-022-00066-y

Effectiveness of virtual team learning in entrepreneurship education: a survey study

Li Chen, Dirk Ifenthaler, Wenting Sun, Tao Xu & Guanghao Yan

Abstract

This study examines the effectiveness of virtual team learning for entrepreneurship competence in the Chinese higher education sector. Related research on the effectiveness of virtual team learning is sparse, especially in the area of entrepreneurship education. We assumed four hypotheses to analyze two sorts of relationships: one between input, respondents’ demographics or characteristics, and mediators, namely virtual teamwork, virtual taskwork, information and communication technology; the other between mediators and output, thus the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education. An online survey was carried out to collect respondents’ perceptions of virtual team learning in entrepreneurship education from teamwork, taskwork, and information and communication technology aspects, considering respondents’ demographics or characteristics. By explaining factors of the team process, the findings show that virtual teamwork, taskwork, and information and communication technology positively affect the entrepreneurial outcome of virtual team learning. Additionally, individual characteristics, including gender, education degree, education field, entrepreneurial family history, and prior entrepreneurial experience have different effects on three elements of virtual teams. The applied model provides a holistic perspective on virtual team learning and explains the association between three sectors. These findings may provide an empirical basis for making decisions in the design and development of entrepreneurship learning and teaching offerings.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41959-022-00064-0

Entrepreneurial orientation and its crucial role in entrepreneurial intention and behaviour: Case of Tunisian Students

Chiheb Eddine Inoubli & Lamia Gharbi

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is becoming one of the most adequate solutions to reduce various, social, environmental and economic problems. In order to encourage and boost entrepreneurship in the country, Tunisian government has opted for providing numerous supporting activities. In contrast, the results were not as expected. As such, understanding of what influence individuals intention towards entrepreneurship is important in the effort of entrepreneurship development. This study addresses university students and aims to study of entrepreneurial intention: the influence of entrepreneurial orientation on entrepreneurial intention and behaviour. A survey was conducted on 300 students from a public university pertaining to different specialties. The results revealed that university students have high interest in entrepreneurship and possess the desire to become entrepreneurs as well. The aforementioned survey indicated that entrepreneurial intention of university students was affected positively by their quality of proactiveness while innovativeness and risk-taking ability were not considered as influential factors. Thus, this paper puts under scrutiny the study of entrepreneurial intention, which can help researchers and policymakers to grasp the different aspects of entrepreneurship, mainly in the phase that precedes the entrepreneurial process.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41959-022-00069-9

We sincerely invite researchers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship education to submit to our journal.

Electronic ISSN:2520-8152, Print ISSN:2520-8144.

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Associate Editor:

Hao Ni, nh@zju.edu.cn

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Nian Wan, 470396996@qq.com