Searching for e-mentoring practices for SME staff development

Leppisaari, Irja; Tenhunen, Marja-Liisa

doi:10.1007/s11628-008-0060-4

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“…While the regular in-person mentoring program offers a unique learning experience, it is less accessible and unintentionally limits diversity. With the latest technology advancements, ementoring complementary to face-to-face mentoring can be an effective tool to promote equal access to mentoring opportunities and avoid limitations of physical space and time [16]. Leppisaari and Tenhunen [16] showed that women demonstrated a higher interest in an online mentoring program.…”

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“…With the latest technology advancements, ementoring complementary to face-to-face mentoring can be an effective tool to promote equal access to mentoring opportunities and avoid limitations of physical space and time [16]. Leppisaari and Tenhunen [16] showed that women demonstrated a higher interest in an online mentoring program. It is important to note that security and privacy challenges with an online tool remain a concern.…”

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“…Most scholars regard mentoring as a practical means of teaching enterprise [13] and a mechanism to facilitate opportunity recognition by promoting a well-developed schema [14]. While most studies considered the typical one-to-one mentoring format, some scholars have looked into alternative mentoring arrangements such as group mentoring, i.e., one-to-many [15], and e-mentoring [16]. Among others, the results of studies in this category can help understand the mentormentee relationship.…”

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“…His analysis showed that "group mentoring has resulted in individuals seeing themselves as valuable and valued to others, gaining access to networks, increasing confidence levels, progressing in career, and having a deepened understanding of self." Leppisaari and Tenhunen [16] assessed the applicability of e-mentoring models for staff development of small-and medium-sized enterprises.…”

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Effect of Mentorship on the Early Entrepreneurial Journey of University Students

Mouammer

Bazán

2021

PCEEA

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Acknowledging the value of entrepreneurs in today’s society, universities are looking into mentorship to improve their support system for students considering entrepreneurship as a viable career path after graduation. This paper reports the main findings of a systematic literaturereview aimed at understanding the role that mentorship plays during the early entrepreneurial journey of university students. That is, identifying what motivates students to seek mentorship and recognizing the critical elements of successful mentorship programs that develop robustmentor-mentee relationships. The systematic literature review classified the selected articles into three thematic categories: mentoring in entrepreneurship, gender differences in mentoring, and mentorship programs in business incubation. Findings in the combined categories suggest that a positive mentoring experience depends on the mentor’s credibility and connection inthe business world and the mentee’s perception of similarities between their mentor and themselves.

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Section: Mentoring In Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Section: Mentoring In Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Effect of Mentorship on the Early Entrepreneurial Journey of University Students

Mouammer

Bazán

2021

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“…The potential of remote learning tools has attracted attention in recent years in the entrepreneurship education literature. For example, Leppisaari and Tenhunen (2009) argue that alternative learning tools are needed because of changing working life and changing skill requirements. They go further and even consider e-mentoring models that would be applicable for entrepreneurial development.…”

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Small Firms and the Growth Stage: Can Entrepreneurship Education Programmes Be Supportive?

Bureau¹,

Salvador²,

Fendt³

2012

Industry and Higher Education

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Whilst entrepreneurship education is booming, it focuses largely on nascent entrepreneurs and company creation. In contrast, a major challenge in small business entrepreneurship is growth. The authors first position growth and its barriers in small firms in the context of current theory and practice in entrepreneurship education: from this analysis, they identify prerequisites and drivers for growth-related entrepreneurship training for small businesses. A pedagogical experiment focused on growth, targeted at a mixed audience of small firm entrepreneurs and graduate students enrolled in an entrepreneurship major in a business school, is then described. The experiment is presented as an integrated process model. The authors suggest that such programmes could be developed in three main directions: (a) changing the culture of business schools so that they become less individual-centred and more open and value-creating for their students and the external community; (b) strongly and regularly involving entrepreneurship students in the realities of business beyond start-up; and (c) making systematic and sophisticated use of the Internet for enhancing growth through e-learning and community-building.

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Generating satisfaction towards e-learning platforms

Moreno

Molina³

2013

Management Decision

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The purpose of this paper is to examine how satisfaction is generated towards e-learning platforms. Design/methodology/approach -This work aims to analyse the differences in the functioning of the model that explains how satisfaction is generated among users of e-learning platforms if expectations are measured before entering into contact with the service or afterwards. The statistical analysis was completed by developing a structural equation model using the SmartPLS 2.0.M3. Findings -The results show that, if the expectations are measured before entering into contact with the good or service, disconfirmation plays a major role in the model. If the expectations are measured after entering into contact with the good or service, the main role is played by expectations in the model. Of the variables included, perceived usefulness and effort expectancy affect satisfaction, not thus enabling conditions and social influence. Originality/value -The authors study the difference between the results obtained when using the cross-sectional design, where all the variables are mediated once the consumer has entered into contact with the good or service, and the half-longitudinal design, where expectations are measured beforehand.

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Searching for e-mentoring practices for SME staff development

Abstract: E-mentoring, SME business, Staff development, Higher education, Intrapreneurship, Entrepreneurship,

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Effect of Mentorship on the Early Entrepreneurial Journey of University Students

Effect of Mentorship on the Early Entrepreneurial Journey of University Students

Small Firms and the Growth Stage: Can Entrepreneurship Education Programmes Be Supportive?

Generating satisfaction towards e-learning platforms

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