Learning Sustainability Entrepreneurship by Doing: Providing a Lecturer-Oriented Service Learning Framework

Jantje Halberstadt, Christoph Schank, Mark Euler and Rainer Harms
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Jantje Halberstadt: ISPA/W&E, University of Vechta, 49377 Vechta, Germany
Christoph Schank: ISPA/W&E, University of Vechta, 49377 Vechta, Germany
Mark Euler: ZE Zentrum für Entrepreneurship, PFH Private University of Applied Sciences, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Rainer Harms: NIKOS/ESIM, University Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-22

Abstract: Due to its growing practical relevance, sustainability entrepreneurship receives a high degree of academic attention. However, literature on how to educate sustainability entrepreneurs remains scarce. A promising didactical approach in this context is service learning. We ask if service learning is an effective way to educate sustainability entrepreneurs, and which framework conditions impact those educators. First, we draw on an established sustainable entrepreneurship capability framework and provide direct evidence from entrepreneurship educators about the effectiveness of service learning. Second, based on grounded theory, qualitative interviews with those educators reveal a framework composed of personal and institutional factors that they have to navigate when provide service learning. Our findings contribute to the interface of service learning and sustainability entrepreneurship by highlighting its effectiveness and the framework conditions for educators.

Keywords: sustainability; entrepreneurship; education; service learning (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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