Are we committed to teach entrepreneurship in business school?

Rohit H. Trivedi

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2014, vol. 8, issue 1, 71-81

Abstract: Purpose - – Despite large number of universities and institutions offering management degrees and interest in the field of entrepreneurship, very less is known about the perception of business lecturers regarding the subject of entrepreneurship, dominant pedagogy, their commitment to teaching and institutional support. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach - – Considering this, the study was carried out with structured questionnaire among 232 lecturers of business management from selected management schools of these three South Asian countries, India, Singapore and Malaysia. Findings - – In response to chief objective of the study, i.e. commitment of lecturers to teach entrepreneurship, it was found that almost 85 per cent of the respondents have shown that they feel fully committed to teach entrepreneurship and almost 35 per cent of the respondents feel that they will be unwilling to exchange current entrepreneurship teaching for teaching in other subjects. In the same vein, almost 50 per cent of the lecturers agree that their institution is keen to develop entrepreneurship education. However, in relation to training and staff development, it is found that almost 38 per cent of the lecturers have not received such a support. Originality/value - – The study provides insight about the level of commitment that business lecturers depict to teach entrepreneurship and resources provided to them by their institute to engage in entrepreneurship education.

Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Pedagogy; Business lecturer; Institution support (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1108/JEC-08-2013-0026

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