Applying the new DIN 33459 quality management standard for educational entrepreneurs

Jonathan Biehl and Rolf Koerber

Journal of the International Council for Small Business, 2025, vol. 6, issue 1, 144-156

Abstract: When a new standard is adopted in a field, new opportunities arise for entrepreneurs, who might identify competitive advantages. With the introduction of Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) 33459 in Germany, a new standard for assessing and maintaining competencies of learning facilitators leads to an exciting phase for educational entrepreneurs. They have to decide whether adoption of this standard can lead to new efficiencies, or whether resistance to change could be too strong. We discuss quality management in the context of educational entrepreneurs as well as potential problems, but also opportunities. We make considerations as to how lawmakers might utilize the new standard and integrate it as policy, forcing entrepreneurs and organizations to take action. Finally, we review what an actual implementation of DIN 33459 could mean for entrepreneurs and potential customers and deliberate whether this new standard could be a catalyst or act as an inhibitor for potential entrepreneurs.

Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/26437015.2024.2397676 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:ucsbxx:v:6:y:2025:i:1:p:144-156

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/ucsb20

DOI: 10.1080/26437015.2024.2397676

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of the International Council for Small Business is currently edited by Eric Liguori

More articles in Journal of the International Council for Small Business from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().