Showing papers by "Etienne St-Jean published in 2019"
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conducted a quasi-experiment between May and June 2017 to assess the entrepreneurial potential of students at elementary cycle 3 (10-12 years) in Quebec, Canada.
Abstract: Many countries around the world have now introduced entrepreneurship into their curricula and educational practices, starting at the elementary school level. However, recent studies show the relative (un)effectiveness of K-12 enterprise education on diverse learning outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to report on a research aimed at assessing the impacts of enterprise education on students’ entrepreneurial attitudes.,The authors conducted a quasi-experiment between May and June 2017 to assess the entrepreneurial potential of students at Elementary Cycle 3 (10–12 years) in Quebec, Canada. Relying on attitude theory, the authors used Athayde’s Attitudes toward Enterprise for Young People test, which assesses students’ entrepreneurial potential through four entrepreneurial attitudes (leadership, creativity, achievement and personal control). The experimental group consisted of 11 classes which had conducted an entrepreneurial project during the 2016–2017 school year (n = 208 students), while the 7 classes of the control group had not (n=151 students).,At first glance, data showed no difference between the two groups. Further investigation showed that private and Freinet (public) schools’ students, both from the control group, show significantly higher leadership scores than those of the experimental group. In-depth analyses also show that increasing the number of entrepreneurial projects significantly impacted three of the four attitudes assessed, although negligibly.,Taken together, those results question the relevance of single entrepreneurial activities in developing students’ entrepreneurial attitudes. They also suggest the positive impact of a progressive, constructivist pedagogy in developing such entrepreneurial attitudes. Moreover, the paper raises several factors likely to impact students’ entrepreneurial attitudes for further research.,K-12 enterprise education remains an understudied context, largely crossed by unproven statements. This research contributes to understand and give direction to educational initiatives targeting the development of young students’ entrepreneurial attitudes.
16 citations
01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the scoping study approach, which consists of systematically identifying papers in which the research focus was senior entrepreneurship, and retrieved 99 documents that dealt with this subject, 60% of which were conducted in 2012 or later.
Abstract: In recent years, we have witnessed a new phenomenon associated with longer human life expectancy: senior entrepreneurship. It has become increasingly common to see individuals aged 50 or more decide to become entrepreneurs. This phenomenon has aroused the interest of researchers. In order to shed light on this theme, we used the scoping study approach, which consists of systematically identifying papers in which the research focus was senior entrepreneurship. We retrieved 99 documents that dealt with this subject, 60% of which were conducted in 2012 or later. Early studies mostly used a quantitative approach, but researchers have eventually migrated to a more qualitative and conceptual approach in more recent years. This article highlights the specific themes of these studies as well as certain gaps that we have identified in the literature that suggest promising avenues for future research.
15 citations
TL;DR: Despite the importance of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in the explanation of the subsequent intention, move to action or performance of a firm, research is scarce on the understanding of the... as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: Despite the importance of entrepreneurial self-efficacy (ESE) in the explanation of the subsequent intention, move to action or performance of a firm, research is scarce on the understanding of the...
11 citations