Entrepreneurial Adaptation and Social Networks: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on a MOOC Platform

Building universities’ intrapreneurial capabilities in the digital era: The role and impacts of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

“…Therefore, in this paper, intrapreneurial capabilities are understood as higher-level competencies that determine that entrepreneurial organizations will be able to improve/transform their routines into entrepreneurial actions to integrate, build, and reconfigure internal/external resources to address the challenges of the digital economy. In the digital economy, the emergence of universities' intrapreneurial capabilities could be associated with the MOOC orientation (Eesley & Wu, 2015;Lopes et al, 2019;Teece, 2018). In this assumption, the initial inputs will be the ordinary capabilities used to capture the outcomes associated with teaching and research activities.…”

Social Is the New Financial: How Startup Social Media Activity Influences Funding Outcomes

“…An emerging stream of work studies the impact of social media on entrepreneurs, with a focus on online capital markets, such as crowdfunding or peer-to-peer lending platforms (Agrawal, Catalini, & Goldfarb, 2011;Lin, Prabhala, & Viswanathan, 2013). Eesley and Wu (2015) study the motivation for social network connections between entrepreneurs and their mentors and how these connections affect firm performance. Greenwood and Gopal (2015) examine how media coverage of a technology segment influences the number of new startups founded in that segment.…”

The entrepreneurial university in the digital era: looking into teaching challenges and new higher education trends

“…Regarding outcomes, the advantages of MOOCs are associated with access to free courses offered by professors at the top schools across the globe; the learners' performance is monitored across the courses; professors and learners get worldwide exposure; and MOOCs can be used as a tool in a blended learning program (Al-Atabi and DeBoer, 2014;Eesley and Wu, 2015;Guerrero et al, 2020). Furthermore, MOOCs' learners have highlighted favorable learning outcomes such as labor promotion, an increase of self-efficacy, and increment of salaries (Al-Atabi and DeBoer, 2014;Eesley and Wu, 2015;Guerrero et al, 2020). Intuitively, MOOCs are advantageous for those learners who need basic knowledge but also for those who want to improve knowledge obtained in previous educational training programs.…”

“…Intuitively, MOOCs are advantageous for those learners who need basic knowledge but also for those who want to improve knowledge obtained in previous educational training programs. On the other hand, the disadvantages of MOOCs are the lack of providing personalized courseware, attention, the difficulties in keeping track of students' assignments and involvement, learners with a poor internet connection or disabilities who cannot access to the courses, the language barrier, and the courses cannot be used as credit-earning courses in some universities (Eesley and Wu, 2015;Guerrero et al, 2020). Intuitively, MOOCs are advantageous for those learners with limited resources and not familiar with digital learning styles.…”