The Influence of the Work Environment on Entrepreneurial Learning of Small-business Owners

Lans, Thomas; Biemans, H.J.A.; Verstegen, J.A.A.M.; Mulder, Martin

doi:10.1177/1350507608098117

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“…There is research conducted by Lans (2009), Lans et al (2008ab, 2010 and on entrepreneurship competence in greenhouse horticulture, by Du Chatenier (2009) and Du Chatenier et al (2009,2010) on open innovation in large organizations, and Birru (2016), on export competence in the leather industry, again in small and medium sized companies. Furthermore, the study of Bartram (2005) mentioned above was on the relationship between competence and job performance.…”

Section: Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Competence for life: a review of developments and perspective for the future : Farewell address upon retiring as Professor of Education and Competence Studies at Wageningen University & Research on 20 October 2016

Mulder¹

2016

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Esteemed Rector Magnificus, distinguished colleagues, respected students, family and friends.It is a great pleasure for me to see you all here and to give this farewell address after 42 years of active service in education and science. First of all I would like to apologize for those amongst you who do not understand English very well. Wageningen University is an international university, there are many international colleagues present here, and most of our academic meetings are held in English. What I would like to do in this farewell address is to present a review of competence theory, research and practice and share a perspective on future research on competence for life. I will begin with the short version of the turbulent history of the chair group I have been leading during the past 18 years. Then I will go into the alignment of the mission of ECS with the mission of Wageningen University. Next I will address the competence construct which has been the core focus of ECS, and give a short overview of the competence research we have conducted so far. Next I will point at overviews and syntheses which have been published during the last decades, and then I will go into the issue of competence for life and the future. Finally of course I like to conclude with a series of words of thanks. Short turbulent history of ECSSo, first of all in short hand the turbulent history of ECS. Or should I say the remarkable history of the chair group within this university. I will keep this short, although you may find this the most exciting part of my talk. When I came to Wageningen University from the University of Twente in 1998, I was not aware of the difficult situation in which Wageningen University was finding itself. Actually, it went through an existential crisis. Draconic measures were taken to discontinue many chair groups and several education programs. What nobody expected was that soon after my start in October 1998 it was decided to also strike the chair of Agricultural Education from the list of chairs of the University. This happened in November 1998, within six weeks after I assumed my position. It felt like being in the 4 | Prof.dr. Martin Mulder Competence for Life -A Review of Developments and Perspective for the Future famous Brussels bar 'A la Mort Subite'. I have spoken about this sudden and unexpected move of the university already in my inaugural address of 2004. I shared that I convinced the university that educational research and teacher education were contractual and legal commitments of Wageningen University, which resulted in postponing the decision to dissolve the chair group, and as we say in Dutch: 'van uitstel kwam afstel'. Postponing resulted in withdrawal of the decision. The chair was reinstalled as chair of 'Education Science' and a bit later as 'Education and Competence Studies'.Some may also remember the picture I showed from the regional newspaper, which commented on the strategic plan of the university at that time, saying that certain professors had luck, such as now emeritus profes...

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Section: Effectivenessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Competence for life: a review of developments and perspective for the future : Farewell address upon retiring as Professor of Education and Competence Studies at Wageningen University & Research on 20 October 2016

Mulder¹

2016

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“…Corporate entrepreneurship training programs could be used to train employees of incumbent companies in such areas as creativity, business planning, and corporate entrepreneurship (Kuratko and Montagno, 1989;Kuratko et al, 2001). This type of action might be especially relevant in the agri-food sector because a number of studies have shown that the entrepreneurial success of companies depends on intraorganizational interactions, support, and guidance (e.g., Kilpatrick and Johns, 2003;Lans et al, 2008).…”

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“…The internationalization of SMEs can be encouraged by initiatives aimed at sustaining contacts with foreign partners (e.g., Wilkinson, 2006). Studies in the agrifood industry have shown that networking with international customers, buyer groups, and other supply-chain partners (e.g., Bertolini and Giovannetti, 2006;Lans et al, 2008;Craviotti, 2012) can foster entrepreneurial undertakings.…”

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Promoting Entrepreneurship in the Agri-food Industry: Policy Insights from a Pan-European Public–Private Consortium

Bolzani

Carli

Fini

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Industry and Innovation

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Despite the importance of entrepreneurship as an engine for socio-economic growth, few attempts have been made to study how and to what extent industry-specific policies can sustain it. In particular, to date, there is only anecdotal evidence on which factors policymakers can utilize to foster entrepreneurship within the agri-food sector. In this paper, we attempt to fill this gap by developing, testing, and validating a multiitem scale, identifying five factors (i.e., people, money, network, technology, infrastructure) and sixteen specific tools (i.e., items) to be leveraged in promoting entrepreneurship within the agri-food industry. We carry out our study in the context of Foodbest, a pan-European public-private consortium created in 2012 to support entrepreneurship and innovation in the agri-food sector. By testing for differences in perceptions of factors' and tools' effectiveness, we find variations according to respondents' organizational and country affiliation. We thus offer new insights into how public policy and public-private consortiums can proactively promote entrepreneurship in the agri-food domain.Keywords: agri-food; entrepreneurship; public policy; public-private consortium; scale development; factor analysis.JEL codes: O3; L26; Q16, Q18, Key pointsWe cover three key points. First, by conducting a literature review and working with a focus group, we identify a set of theoretically grounded factors and tools that could help promote entrepreneurship in the agri-food industry. Second, we develop and test a multi-item scale of these factors within the context of a pan-European publicprivate consortium. Third, we show that perceptions of factor effectiveness vary among consortium participants according to participants' personal characteristics and organizational affiliations.2

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“…Through the observation and imitation of other people's employment behavior, employment activities (Ozgen & Baron, 2007), to contact and communicate with other members of the social network, graduate can get the support and guidance of the social network members (Lans, Biemans, Verstegen & Mulder, 2008). The existing study on the graduate employability has not yet established a unified measurement scale (Bao & Liu, 2016), especially lack measurement scale of graduate employability based on social networks.…”

Section: Social Network and Network Learningmentioning

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Graduate Employability: The Perspective of Social Network Learning

Chen

2017

EURASIA J MATH SCI T

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This study provides a conceptual framework for understanding how the graduate acquire employability through the social network in the Chinese context, using insights from the social network theory. This paper builds a conceptual model of the relationship among social network, social network learning and the graduate employability, and uses structural equation analysis method to conduct an empirical test on the theoretical hypothesis, based on a sample of 1468 fresh graduates of business discipline from the local university in Zhejiang province of China. The findings suggested that social network is one of the important platforms for graduate to acquire employability in China, the scale of social network, social network heterogeneity and the strength of the relationship have positive effects on the formation of graduate employability. The acquisition mode of employability based on the social network can be divided into imitation learning, communication learning, accepting guidance, these three kinds of learning mode have positive effects on the formation of graduate employability, and play a mediating role in the relationship between social networks and graduate employability. University graduate should pay attention to the shaping of learning behavior based on social network to improve their employability in China.

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The Influence of the Work Environment on Entrepreneurial Learning of Small-business Owners

Cited by 65 publications

References 39 publications

Competence for life: a review of developments and perspective for the future : Farewell address upon retiring as Professor of Education and Competence Studies at Wageningen University & Research on 20 October 2016

Competence for life: a review of developments and perspective for the future : Farewell address upon retiring as Professor of Education and Competence Studies at Wageningen University & Research on 20 October 2016

Promoting Entrepreneurship in the Agri-food Industry: Policy Insights from a Pan-European Public–Private Consortium

Graduate Employability: The Perspective of Social Network Learning

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