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This work presents a synthesis of a debate regarding taken-for-granted assumptions and challenges in entrepreneurship education, matured after a developmental workshop organized to increase the research salience of the field. From the five contributions selected, three challenges emerge. The first is recognizing that participants’ representations about entrepreneurship play a crucial role in defining goals and impact of entrepreneurship education; second, integrating new perspectives of conceiving entrepreneurship into the current models of teaching entrepreneurship; and, lastly, facilitating the integration of entrepreneurship knowledge into practice. These challenges opened up to a conception of entrepreneurship education as a dynamic concept reflecting personal values, societal changes, and cultural differences. As a result, learning places of entrepreneurship education promotes exploration and not adaptation to existing schemes, where personal models for practicing entrepreneurship have room to emerge. Defining knowledge priorities, instead of targeting knowledge exhaustiveness, becomes of greatest importance to make entrepreneurship education‘s impact more relevant.

The aim of this study is to examine how transformational and transactional leaders, boost the employees' innovative work behaviour, directly or through work engagement, organizational climate for innovation and absorptive capacity in Latin American firms. A non-random sample of 1429 employees was used who had been working at least one year in the current company. The sample, composed of workers from different industries, was collected in postgraduate programs of business schools from seven Latin American countries. A multi-group structural equation model was built with the involved variables, which adopted two different conditions: i.e., unconstrained and constrained questionnaire measurement weights. According to the results, leadership by itself is insufficient to promote employees innovative work behaviour. Transformational and transactional leadership exert effect on this behaviour only through absorptive capacity and work engagement respectively. Likewise, absorptive capacity and employee work engagement show direct effects on innovative work behaviour. Additionally, organizational climate for innovation shows a significant moderating effect on the all relationships included in the model. Despite the cultural differences, the two-condition model yielded the same effect in each country, which indicates the validity of a general model of innovative work behaviour for the whole region supporting the common identity of this region. As a conclusion, leadership practices are needed to encourage innovative work behaviour within the Latin American organizational context, however some individual (engagement) and organizational (absorptive capacity) conditions are also needed to ensure this effect. Implications for human resources management are discussed.

The study examines patterns in spatial distribution between venture capital and private equity investors and investees in Brazil. A survey was conducted using the geographic location data of venture capital and private equity fund managers and investee companies who were part of the Second PE/VC Census (ABDI & FGV, 2011). The database contained 144 PE/VC fund managers and 481 investee companies by the year 2010. Distances between managers and investees of 63% of the database or 50% of the total number of firms in the Brazilian PE/VC industry were randomly obtained and analysed. Results indicate regional equity gaps and inequality of the spatial distribution of the Venture Capital industry in Brazil

We study how entrepreneurs and their well-being are impacted by crises and which entrepreneurs are able to safeguard their well-being. We examine the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in a multilevel...

What it takes to entrepreneurs running home-based businesses (HBBs) achieve high levels of revenue? HBBs are the majority of businesses in many countries and a growing trend worldwide. Prior resear...

Resumo Em função da baixa consolidação das metodologias de ensino voltadas ao empreendedorismo que sejam suportadas por fundamentos teóricos consistentes, o objetivo desta pesquisa é compreender como professores ensinam empreendedorismo com fundamento na teoria effectuation. A pesquisa utiliza a metodologia de estudo de caso múltiplo - cinco experiências em quatro países - com intuito de compreender o contexto e a estrutura dos cursos, as metodologias de ensino utilizadas e a percepção dos docentes sobre as experiências de ensino. Como principais resultados, destaca-se a prática do modelo dinâmico de effectuation como elemento integrador presente em todos os casos, a identificação de metodologias de ensino emergentes e a categorização das metodologias de ensino em função das dimensões e comportamentos associados à teoria. Além disso, o estudo estabelece as primeiras relações da teoria com intenção de empreender e propõe que antecedentes pessoais do indivíduo, no caso, a cultura e educação formal, sejam testados em futuras pesquisas. Abstract Due to the low consolidation of entrepreneurship teaching methodologies supported by consistent theoretical foundations, the objective of this research is to understand how professors teach entrepreneurship using effectuation theory. The research uses the multiple case study methodology - five teaching experiences in four different countries - in order to understand the context and the structure of the courses, the methodologies applied and the perception of professors regarding the teaching-learning experiences. As main results, it emphasizes the practice of the dynamic model of effectuation as the integrating element in all cases, the identification of emerging teaching methodologies and the categorization of teaching methodologies according to the dimensions and behavior associated with the theory. In addition, the study establishes initial relationships between effectuation and entrepreneurial intention and the need for the field to consider the individual´s personal history, such as culture and formal education, to be tested in future research.

O presente estudo tem por objetivo compreender como indivíduos com formação e carreira em áreas eminentemente técnicas, como engenharia, química e biologia, tornam-se empreendedores, identificando as experiências que os influenciaram a mudar da carreira técnica para a carreira empreendedora. A pesquisa é de caráter qualitativo e exploratório, utilizando-se da metodologia de História de Vida com perspectiva temporal longitudinal e retrospectiva. Realizou-se entrevistas ao longo do tempo com três empreendedores com formação técnico-científica cujas empresas já tenham experimentado um crescimento significativo. Os resultados obtidos mostram que o entorno familiar exerce grande influência na decisão de empreender, especialmente se o profissional técnico teve um modelo de educação que lhe trouxe independência e autoconfiança e se a família for um “porto seguro” para as incertezas da vida empreendedora. Além disso, o profissional técnico faz a transição de carreira de forma planejada e empreende na mesma área de conhecimento, visando minimização de riscos.

This study examines the relationship between institutional void and the regional inequality of the spatial distribution of venture capital (VC) investments in Brazil during the initial phases of co...