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International Journal of Management Education

Published by Elsevier Ltd • ISSN: 14728117

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What do (should) we know to leverage students' employability and entrepreneurship? A systematic guide to researchers and managers

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The literature lacks a systemic view of what needs to be done by Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to leverage student entrepreneurship and employability. In order to understand these issues, this study reviewed existing literature in order to understand the impacts and influences of student's …

Understanding the relevance of experiential learning for entrepreneurial self-efficacy: A gender-wise perspective

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Experiential learning has been regarded as an effective tool for grasping entrepreneurial knowledge. The current study examines the influence of Experiential Learning (EL) with sub-variables [(i.e., Concrete Experience (CE), Reflective Observation (RO), Abstract Conceptualisation (AC), & Active Expe…

Do proactive students benefit more from university support for entrepreneurship when it comes to choosing entrepreneurship as a career choice? An examination of Ghanian and Malaysian students

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Universities are increasingly looking at new ways to support their students' entrepreneurial career choices. Prior research suggests that university support for entrepreneurship serves as an important means through which students can develop entrepreneurial intentions. However, more scholarly work i…

Finding the combined effect of academic and non-academic performance on management students’ placement: A fuzzy logic approach

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The academic performance (scores/credentials) of a student during an educational program is generally linked to his/her employability (including the placement package he/she receives) (Cheong et al., 2018). However, in a program like MBA non-academic performance like extracurricular activities, inte…

Employability beliefs of business students by gender and year of study: Implications for higher education

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Grounded in social-cognitive theory, the study reported here explored undergraduate business students' perceptions of their employability and the impact of year of study and gender on these perceptions. 6,004 undergraduate business students enrolled with multiple Australian universities self-assesse…

Escaping from the valley of death: Reconfiguring executive education through a differentiated curriculum

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Much of the criticism levied against executive education has focussed on its lack of real-world relevance. Such is the bifurcation between executive education and professional practice that it has been described as a ‘valley of death’. Albeit dramatic in tone, this view of executive education points…

Entrepreneurship education and the moderating role of inclusion in the entrepreneurial action of disabled students

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Educators and policymakers have sought to open entrepreneurship to a broader range of students. The paper investigates the role of entrepreneurship education in the development of People with Physical Disabilities (PWPDs) and the moderating role of inclusion in their entrepreneurial action. This res…

The effect of entrepreneurial education on entrepreneurial intention: The moderating role of culture

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This study investigates how entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial attitude, and culture enhance students' entrepreneurial intentions in an educational institute. Students from Pakistan's private educational institutions made up the target population. An electronic questionnaire was used to coll…

Employer development of professional capabilities among early career workers and implications for the design of work-based learning

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Professional capabilities, particularly enterprise behaviours, are increasingly sought after in the labour market, enabling new workers to perform effectively in complex and diverse contexts. Capability deficits among new graduates have prompted the growth of work-based learning (e.g., internships) …

Employers’ expectations of accounting skills from vocational education providers: The expectation gap between employers and ITPs

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This study examines whether a gap exists between employers' skills expectations and the skills accounting students acquired during their undergraduate accounting programme at several institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) in New Zealand. Extant studies have examined the technical accountin…

Applying social cognitive theory to placement learning in business firms and students’ entrepreneurial intentions

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Building upon the social cognitive theory, this study examines the environmental and person factors that influence students' entrepreneurial intentions. Also, it examines the mediating effect of entrepreneurial self-efficacy and entrepreneurial creativity, and the moderating effect of entrepreneuria…

Using the EntreComp framework to evaluate two entrepreneurship education courses based on the Korda Method

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This paper tests the Korda method, a problem-based learning method for entrepreneurship education for both secondary- and tertiary-level students and describes how the EntreComp framework was utilized to evaluate these programs. The research questions inspect: (1) to what extent the EntreComp framew…

Entrepreneurial learning in an experiential and competences training context: A business plan in Bachelor thesis

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The objective of this research consists of analysing the impact of carrying out Bachelor thesis (BT) subject –focused on the creation of a new venture by implementation and elaboration of a business plan– on learning outcomes. Thus, a combination of competences is analysed and evaluated between prio…

Entrepreneurial competencies of undergraduate students: The case of universities in Nigeria

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The present study builds on Morris et al.‘s entrepreneurial competencies (ECs) identified from their 2013 Delphi study, to examine whether students' compulsory participation in entrepreneurship education (EE) in Nigerian higher education institutions (HEIs) influences their development of the identi…

Which skills and competences to develop in accountants in a country in crisis?

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This research investigated the incorporation of professional skills into Greek accounting education studies. It was driven by complaints from employers and other stakeholders that Higher Education is not keeping pace with global trends in the economy. Questionnaires (N = 1626) helped to identify and…

The value of the research doctorate: A conceptual examination

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This paper addresses the value of doctoral studies as a form of management education. Whilst attention is paid to the value of undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes, research degrees have received scant attention. We report an exploratory qualitative study to examine the concept of value …

Undergraduate business students’ perceptions of learning outcomes in problem based and faculty centered courses

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This article compares undergraduate business students’ perception of the effectiveness of faculty centric pedagogy and problem based learning (PBL) pedagogy. The 303 participating students had experienced both methodologies. The survey measured the students’ perceptions of five learning outcomes: kn…

Effects of a holistic, experiential curriculum on business students' satisfaction and career confidence

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Students' satisfaction with their major curriculum and their perceptions of career readiness are important drivers of recruitment, retention and rankings. As a result, universities, and business schools in particular, are redesigning curricula to be responsive to marketplace demands. Curricula are i…

Entrepreneurship education based on the Change Laboratory

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This paper presents the results of a new model for entrepreneurship education in vocational education with students undertaking work experience. It surveys the contemporary theories of adult learning applied to entrepreneurship education, and then presents the theory of expansive learning within a C…

Business graduate performance in oral communication skills and strategies for improvement

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Global competitiveness and increased knowledge sharing have accelerated the importance of oral communication skills in today's graduates. Accordingly, oral communication dominates assurance of learning standards and is frequently cited as one of the most desired graduate employability skills. Previo…