Volume 9(2) • 2016
Entrepreneurship Education – Academic Acceptance and Effective Classroom Strategies and Methodologies. Introduction to the Special Issue
ABSTRACT. Successful academic entrepreneurship programs create and perpetuate an environment that fosters student deep thinking, experimentation, observation, and reflection as a means of instigating creativity and action into economic and program development. To support this environment, educationa..
The Crossroads of Social Entrepreneurship, Community Engagement, and Learning Communities
ABSTRACT. This paper describes an emerging interdisciplinary model of instructional delivery for first-year students at a regionally-accredited public university located in western North Carolina. This emerging interdisciplinary model is comprised of a pre-semester engagement retreat, a fall and spr..
Developing an Entrepreneurship Major and Minor: One University’s Story
ABSTRACT. Entrepreneurship education programs are increasing at a brisk pace at institutions of higher learning. In light of this popularity, academics must carefully consider pedagogical approaches to differentiate course offerings relative to traditional business school curricula. In this paper, w..
Crossing Boundaries and Redefining Roles: Humanists as Academic Entrepreneurs
ABSTRACT. We present an adaptive approach to academic entrepreneurship that we show to be successful for faculty working in humanities departments at public regional Master’s universities. At such institutions, faculty need to forge new roles as entrepreneurs that center on pedagogical concerns and ..
Corruption, Turnaround, and Economic Growth: Recovering the Societal Infrastructure of Entrepreneurship
ABSTRACT. Entrepreneurship requires a supportive institutional environment to flourish. Using qualitative methodology, this research explored how in just 8 years, one city, Barranquilla, Colombia, dramatically changed the ethical climate of the city, creating an attractive environment for business g..
Building Forecasting Models for Restaurant Owners and Managers: A Case Study
ABSTRACT. Small business entrepreneurs like restaurant owners are at the constant mercy of fluctuating demand patterns. Many independent restaurateurs suffer from poor collection of data, limited resources, and lack of knowledge to build sophisticated forecasting models. They often use simple rules ..