Entrepreneurial Learning

<p>This book addresses the burgeoning interest in organizational learning and entrepreneurship, bringing together for the first time a collection of new papers dealing explicitly with entrepreneurial learning. Where past books have examined learning in a corporate context, Harrison and Leitch focus instead on the learning process within entrepreneurship and the small business. Areas covered include:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>a review of the concept of entrepreneurial learning and the relationship between entrepreneurial learning and the wider literatures on management and organizational learning, </li> <li>a review and development of a number of conceptual models of the process of learning in entrepreneurial contexts </li> <li>an illustration of the applications of concept of entrepreneurial learning in a range of contexts </li> <li>an international perspective on entrepreneurial learning. </li> </ul> <p>Preface: A Conversation Between Entrepreneurship and Organisational Learning <em>Mark Easterby-Smith</em> <strong>Part 1: Introduction</strong> 1. Entrepreneurial Learning: A Review and Research Agenda <em>Claire M. Leitch and Richard T. Harrison</em> <strong>Part 2: Conceptual Approaches</strong> 2. Enhancing Entrepreneurial Learning Through Peripheral Vision <em>Robert Chia</em> 3. The Process of Entrepreneurial Learning: A Conceptual Framework <em>Diamanto Politis</em> 4. The Role and Management of Learning from Experience in an Entrepreneurial Context <em>Joyce McHenry</em> <strong>Part 3: Intra-Organisational Learning</strong> 5. The Role of Organisational Learning in the Opportunity Recognition Process <em>Benyamin B. Lichtenstein and G.T. Lumpkin</em> 6. Experiential Learning within the Process of Opportunity Identification and Exploitation <em>Andrew C. Corbett</em> 7. An Exploration of Knowledge Management Processes in Start-Up Firms in the High Technology Sector <em>Olukemi O. Sawyerr and Jeanette W. Gilsdorf</em> 8. Investment Decision-Making in Small Manufacturing Firms: A Learning Approach <em>Ignatius Ekanem and David Smallbone</em> 9. Sharing of Tacit Knowledge Within Top Management Teams in Civic Entrepreneurship <em>Patricia A. Rowe and Michael J. Christie</em> <strong>Part 4: Inter-Organisational Learning</strong> 10. Entrepreneurial Knowledge Flows and New Venture Creation <em>Paul N. Friga</em> 11. Strategy Making, Organisational Learning and Performance in SMEs <em>Edward Gonsalves and Colin Gray</em> 12. Absorptive Capacity of Knowledge Intensive Business Services: The Case of Architectural and Engineering SMEs <em>Jan Waalkens, René Jorna and Theo Postma</em> 13. The Emergent Nature of Learning Networks <em>Joakim Tell</em> <strong>Part 5:</strong><em> </em><strong>Learning, Education and Development</strong> 14. Being Differently Abled: Learning Lessons from Dyslexic Entrepreneurs <em>Robert Smith</em> 15. Starting from Scratch: Understanding the Learning Outcomes of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education <em>Sandra L. Fisher, Mary E. Graham and Marc Compeau</em></p>