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Education that Connects : = The Development of Founders' Social Capital Through Entrepreneurship Education Programs.

Record Type:	Language materials, manuscript : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Education that Connects :/
Reminder of title:	The Development of Founders' Social Capital Through Entrepreneurship Education Programs.
Author:	Edouard, Linda.
Description:	1 online resource (197 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-10A.
Subject:	Adult education. -
Online resource:	click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798379416577

Education that Connects : = The Development of Founders' Social Capital Through Entrepreneurship Education Programs.
Edouard, Linda.

Education that Connects :The Development of Founders' Social Capital Through Entrepreneurship Education Programs. - 1 online resource (197 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-10, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Graduate School - Newark, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

In this dissertation, I argue that the entrepreneurship education literature might be undersocialized in its understanding of how entrepreneurship education programs (EEPs) impact entrepreneurial outcomes. I contend that this organizational context and the pedagogical approaches undertaken can arguably facilitate not only the development of founders' human capital --as research has emphasized-- but also their social capital. I introduce into the entrepreneurship education literature, a social capital perspective to answer the questions 1) how do EEPs facilitate the development of founders' social capital and 2) how do founders' initial social capital influence their firm founding activities in the EEP? To address these questions, I conducted a mixed method, embedded case study of three EEPs. I drew upon interviews, observations, social network surveys, and documentation to test preliminary propositions and induct theory on potential mechanisms that facilitate founders' social capital development. The findings show that the chosen pedagogical models utilized in the training sessions may play a role in the structural social capital founders generate within the programs. Furthermore, I propose and offer description of three additional mechanisms by which EEPs facilitate founders' networking - namely: facilitating the acquisition of relational knowledge, brokering access to players, and social cost reduction. Moreover, I find that founders leverage their existing network while engaging in the program's directed activities. I explain that this may in part explain some of the reasons for mixed findings in research that examine the impact of entrepreneurship education. Taken together, I contribute to the literature on entrepreneurship education an embedded perspective on EEPs. I also offer to the literature on social networks and entrepreneurship insight into how organizations can facilitate the development of founders' social capital.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2024

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798379416577Subjects--Topical Terms:

555548
Adult education.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Entrepreneurship educationIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

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