Gielnik, Michael M.Frese, MichaelKahara-Kawuki, AudreyKatono, Isaac WasswaKyejjusa, SarahMunene, JohnNgoma, MuhammedNamatovu-Dawa, RebeccaNansubuga, FlorenceOrobia, LauraOyugi, JacobSejjaaka, SamuelSserwanga, ArthurWalter, ThomasBischoff, Kim MarieDlugosch, Thorsten J.2018-08-152018-08-152015Gielnik 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.2012.0107https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11951/360This study investigated the question of how the training transmitted its effects on entrepreneurial action and start-up.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.enEntrepreneurship educationEntrepreneurshipArticle