Action and Action-Regulation in Entrepreneurship: Evaluating a Student Training for Promoting Entrepreneurship
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Date
2015
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Academy of Management Learning & Education
Abstract
Action plays a central role in entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship education. Based on
action regulation theory, we developed an action-based entrepreneurship training. The
training put a particular focus on action insofar as the participants learned action
principles and engaged in the start-up of a business during the training. We hypothesized
that a set of action-regulatory factors mediates the effect of the training on
entrepreneurial action. We evaluated the training’s impact over a 12-month period using
a randomized control group design. As hypothesized, the training had positive effects on action-regulatory factors (entrepreneurial goal intentions, action planning, action
knowledge, and entrepreneurial self-efficacy) and the action-regulatory factors mediated
the effect of the training on entrepreneurial action. Furthermore, entrepreneurial action
and business opportunity identification mediated the effect of the training on business
creation. Our study shows that action-regulatory mechanisms play an important role for
action-based entrepreneurship trainings and business creation.
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Keywords
Action, Action-Regulation, Entrepreneurship
Citation
Gielnik, M. M., Frese, M., Kahara-Kawuki, A., Wasswa Katono, I., Kyejjusa, S., Ngoma, M., ... & Dlugosch, T. J. (2015). Action and action-regulation in entrepreneurship: Evaluating a student training for promoting entrepreneurship. Academy of Management Learning & Education, 14(1), 69-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amle.2012.0107