TY - JOUR
T1 - Beyond the entrepreneur
T2 - A study of entrepreneurial learning from a social practice perspective working with scientists in West Africa
AU - Pais Zozimo, Joana
AU - N-Yelkabong, Anthony
AU - Lockett, Nigel
AU - Dada, Lola
AU - Jack, Sarah L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the UK Research & Innovation through Global Challenge Research Fund grant: GCRF RECIRCULATE: Driving eco-innovation in Africa: Capacity-building for a safe circular water economy, Grant Ref.: ES/P010857/1.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article contributes to extending the current conceptualisation of entrepreneurial learning by challenging the assumption that entrepreneurial learning is solely embodied in the entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial learning is an emergent trend that involves a developmental approach to learning in acting on opportunities and experiences. We apply a social practice theory to entrepreneurial learning to advance understanding of the value of entrepreneurial thinking towards informal, experiential and aspirational learning. We position entrepreneurial learning within the social learning and social practice literature in the (1) alternative formats to formal learning, and (2) implications of entrepreneurial learning, as a social practice, for management learning and entrepreneurship education research. Based on a qualitative empirical analysis of a co-created entrepreneurial learning programme for ‘Stimulating Entrepreneurial Thinking in Scientists’, this study shows that entrepreneurial thinking can be expanded beyond the entrepreneur, and developed by others such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics scientists. With the drive for individuals to become entrepreneurial in their everyday practices, our study contributes towards extending the conceptualisation of entrepreneurial learning through insights from social practice theory. In addition, by understanding the value of entrepreneurial thinking, particularly via non-formal and informal approaches to learning, our research expands underexposed issues of entrepreneurial learning across diverse audiences, contexts and disciplines.
AB - This article contributes to extending the current conceptualisation of entrepreneurial learning by challenging the assumption that entrepreneurial learning is solely embodied in the entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial learning is an emergent trend that involves a developmental approach to learning in acting on opportunities and experiences. We apply a social practice theory to entrepreneurial learning to advance understanding of the value of entrepreneurial thinking towards informal, experiential and aspirational learning. We position entrepreneurial learning within the social learning and social practice literature in the (1) alternative formats to formal learning, and (2) implications of entrepreneurial learning, as a social practice, for management learning and entrepreneurship education research. Based on a qualitative empirical analysis of a co-created entrepreneurial learning programme for ‘Stimulating Entrepreneurial Thinking in Scientists’, this study shows that entrepreneurial thinking can be expanded beyond the entrepreneur, and developed by others such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics scientists. With the drive for individuals to become entrepreneurial in their everyday practices, our study contributes towards extending the conceptualisation of entrepreneurial learning through insights from social practice theory. In addition, by understanding the value of entrepreneurial thinking, particularly via non-formal and informal approaches to learning, our research expands underexposed issues of entrepreneurial learning across diverse audiences, contexts and disciplines.
KW - Entrepreneurial learning
KW - entrepreneurship education
KW - management learning
KW - situated learning
KW - social practice theory
KW - West Africa
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85138305587&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/13505076221111399
DO - 10.1177/13505076221111399
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138305587
SN - 1350-5076
JO - Management Learning
JF - Management Learning
ER -