This book addresses the burgeoning interest in organizational learning and entrepreneurship, bringing together for the first time a collection of new papers dealing explicitly with entrepreneurial learning. Where past books have examined learning in a corporate context, Harrison and Leitch focus instead on the learning process within entrepreneurship and the small business. Areas covered include: a review of the concept of entrepreneurial learning and the relationship between entrepreneurial learning and the wider literatures on management and organizational learning, a review and development of a number of conceptual models of the process of learning in entrepreneurial contexts an illustration of the applications of concept of entrepreneurial learning in a range of contexts an international perspective on entrepreneurial learning.
Author(s): Harrison Leitch
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 346
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Preface: A conversation between entrepreneurship and organizational learning......Page 20
Section I: Introduction......Page 24
1 Entrepreneurial learning: A review and research agenda......Page 26
Section II: Conceptual approaches......Page 48
2 Enhancing entrepreneurial learning through peripheral vision......Page 50
3 The process of entrepreneurial learning: A conceptual framework......Page 67
4 The role and management of learning from experience in an entrepreneurial context......Page 95
Section III: Intra-organizational learning......Page 116
5 The role of organizational learning in the opportunity recognition process......Page 118
6 Experiential learning within the process of opportunity identification and exploitation......Page 143
7 An exploration of knowledge management processes in start-up firms in the high-technology sector......Page 164
8 Investment decision-making in small manufacturing firms: A learning approach......Page 191
9 Sharing of tacit knowledge within top management teams in civic entrepreneurship......Page 211
Section IV: Inter-organisational learning......Page 226
10 Entrepreneurial knowledge flows and new venture creation......Page 228
11 Strategy making, organizational learning and performance in SMEs......Page 251
12 Absorptive capacity of knowledge-intensive business services: The case of architectural and engineering SMEs......Page 272
13 The emergent nature of learning networks......Page 295
Section V: Learning, education and development......Page 312
14 Being differently abled: Learning lessons from dyslexic entrepreneurs......Page 314
15 Starting from scratch: Understanding the learning outcomes of undergraduate entrepreneurship education......Page 336
Index......Page 364
