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James O. Fiet
Other affiliations: Babson College, Jönköping University, University of the Pacific (United States) ...read more
Bio: James O. Fiet is an academic researcher from University of Louisville. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Venture capital. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 58 publications receiving 6660 citations. Previous affiliations of James O. Fiet include Babson College & Jönköping University.
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TL;DR: The authors meta-analyzed 73 studies with a total sample size of 37,285 individuals and found a significant but a small correlation between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions, which is also greater than that of business education.
Abstract: The research on entrepreneurship education�entrepreneurial intentions has yielded mixed results. We meta-analyzed 73 studies with a total sample size of 37,285 individuals and found a significant but a small correlation between entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions (inline image). This correlation is also greater than that of business education and entrepreneurial intentions. However, after controlling for pre-education entrepreneurial intentions, the relationship between entrepreneurship education and post-education entrepreneurial intentions was not significant. We also analyzed moderators, such as the attributes of entrepreneurship education, students' differences, and cultural values. Our results have implications for entrepreneurship education scholars, program evaluators, and policy makers.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the field of entrepreneurship needs to develop more refined, cumulative theory and teach it to students in a way that emphasizes learning by doing, which should accelerate student mastery.
533 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory-based activity approach is proposed for entrepreneurship education, which is based on the assumption that to the extent that a teacher is the initiator of knowledge transfer, students tend to practice less and acquire fewer competencies.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that opportunity discovery is a function of the distribution of information in society, and they show that entrepreneurs discover opportunities related to the information that they already possess.
Abstract: Before technological change leads to new processes, products, markets, or ways of organizing, entrepreneurs must discover opportunities in which to exploit the new technology. To date, research has not explained adequately why entrepreneurs discover these opportunities, which creates several conceptual problems in the entrepreneurship literature. Drawing on Austrian economics, I argue that opportunity discovery is a function of the distribution of information in society (Hayek 1945). Through in-depth case studies of eight sets of entrepreneurs who exploit a single MIT invention, I show that entrepreneurs discover opportunities related to the information that they already possess. I use these findings to draw several implications that differ from those prevailing in the entrepreneurship literature, including: (1) entrepreneurs do not always select between alternative market opportunities for new technologies; (2) the source of entrepreneurship lies in differences in information about opportunities; (3) the results of prior studies of entrepreneurial exploitation may suffer from bias; and (4) individual differences influence the opportunities that people discover, how their entrepreneurial efforts are organized, and how the government can influence this process.
4,281 citations
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce the concept of ''search'' where a buyer wanting to get a better price, is forced to question sellers, and deal with various aspects of finding the necessary information.
Abstract: The author systematically examines one of the important issues of information — establishing the market price. He introduces the concept of «search» — where a buyer wanting to get a better price, is forced to question sellers. The article deals with various aspects of finding the necessary information.
3,790 citations
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TL;DR: Signaling theory is useful for describing behavior when two parties (individuals or organizations) have access to different information as mentioned in this paper, and it holds a prominent position in a variety of management literatures, including strategic management, entrepreneurship, and human resource management.
3,241 citations