Action and Action-Regulation in Entrepreneurship: Evaluating a Student Training for Promoting Entrepreneurship
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Date
2015
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Academy of Management Learning & Education
Abstract
Action plays a central role in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. Based on action regulation theory, we developed an action-based entrepreneurship training. We investigated the question of how the training transmitted its effects on entrepreneurial action and start-up. The training put a particular focus on action insofar as the participants learned action principles and engaged in the start-up of a real business during the training. We evaluated the training’s impact over a 12-month period using a randomized control group design in a developing country (Uganda). As hypothesized, the training had positive effects on action-regulatory factors (entrepreneurial goals, action planning, action knowledge, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy) and the action-regulatory factors predicted entrepreneurial action. Entrepreneurial action and business opportunity identification mediated the effect of the training on new business start-up. Our study shows that an action-based entrepreneurship training promotes entrepreneurial action via action-regulatory mechanisms. Thus, action regulatory mechanisms play an important role in the process that leads to the new business creation.
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This study investigated the question of how the training transmitted its effects on entrepreneurial action and start-up.
Keywords
Entrepreneurship education, Entrepreneurship
Citation
Gielnik et al. Action and Action-Regulation in Entrepreneurship: Evaluating a Student Training for Promoting Entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Learning & Education VOL. 14, NO. 1 (2015) https://doi.org/10.5465/amle.2012.0107