Breaking Glass: Towards a Gendered Analysis of Entrepreneurial Leadership

Despite recent expansion in the literature on entrepreneurial leadership, this has not been matched with the development of appropriate theoretical frameworks, theory building, and conceptual analyses, including the analysis of gender. In this paper, we provide the foundation for a more robust and extensive gendered study of entrepreneurial leadership, through a review of the entrepreneurial leadership literature and of the current debates on gender and leadership. On the basis of this, we propose a research agenda for the gendered analysis of the rapidly expanding interface between leadership and entrepreneurship, comprising three themes around which the future development of entrepreneurial leadership can be organized.

Open for Business: Universities, Entrepreneurial Academics and Open Innovation

The emergence of open innovation theory and practice, alongside the evolution to a quadruple helix system of innovation, has led to a need for universities to rethink their models of engagement with industry and wider society. One important element in this system is the entrepreneurial academics; however there is a lack of research considering the motivations of entrepreneurial academics, who differ from academic entrepreneurs, to engage in knowledge transfer in line with open innovation policy. This research offers practical insights on whether new models of engagement, increasingly offered by universities, really address the policy drivers for open innovation. Furthermore, this research explores whether these activities might motivate entrepreneurial academics to participate. Preliminary findings identify that many supposedly new collaboration activities do not really motivate entrepreneurial academics. This may have important implications on the ability of universities to become truly open and to encourage their academics to become engaged in collaboration and impact.

La rhétorique professionnelle des conseillers d'orientation pour l'accès à la pratique de la médiation familiale une image publique floue

Depuis le 1er septembre 1997, cinq professionnels ont accès à la pratique de la médiation familiale. Les conseillers d'orientation sont de ce nombre et ils sont les professionnels les moins bien représentés en médiation familiale et ce, à plusieurs points de vue. Ce mémoire pose l'hypothèse que les conseillers d'orientation ont de la difficulté à s'imposer dans cette pratique parce qu'ils ont un problème d'identité professionnelle qui les empêche de convaincre de leur pertinence en tant qu'intervenants. Balisé par un contexte théorique à caractère sociologique reposant sur les concepts de rhétorique professionnelle (Paradeise, 1985) et d'espace professionnel (Bourdon, 1994), les transcriptions des débats tenus en commission parlementaire sur la médiation familiale ont été analysés à l'aide d'une méthodologie qualitative. Il appert que les conseillers d'orientation n'ont su utiliser correctement les éléments de rhétorique professionnelle, et par surcroît, ils ont été les grandes victimes des tactiques utilisées par les autres acteurs.

Les TIC en information et orientation professionnelles un soutien au developpement de compétences transversales

À l'instar de la Réforme de l'éducation qui a lieu actuellement au Québec, deux éléments viennent alimenter le but et la raison d'être de cette recherche: l'abandon des cours de choix de carrière dans la grille-matière et le développement des compétences informatiques. Ces deux éléments relèvent des compétences transversales devant être construites par l'élève. L'objectif de cette recherche était de cerner l'efficacité du recours à des environnements informatiques en tant qu'outils de construction de compétences spécifiques et ainsi proposer aux jeunes une nouvelle méthode pour acquérir leur autonomie vocationnelle. L'échantillon était composé d'élèves de quatrième et cinquième secondaire. Suite aux traitements des données et aux analyses du discours des élèves, nos résultats démontrent comment les participants ont atteint certaines compétences transversales d'ordre méthodologiques et intellectuelles salutaires à leur choix de carrière. L'apport des technologies de l'information et des communications a été démontré et des pistes de recherches subséquentes ont été suggérées.

L'implication des parents dans l'orientation de leurs enfants

L'approche orientante qui est présentement implantée dans les écoles du Québec vise à favoriser l'implication des parents dans l'orientation de leurs enfants. La Suisse a pour sa part des méthodes qui répondent déjà à cet objectif. Afin de fournir une liste d'activités à privilégier pour la mise en oeuvre de l'approche orientante au Québec, 335 questionnaires ont été distribués à des parents du canton de Fribourg (Suisse). Ces derniers devaient indiquer les activités qui leur avaient été proposées au cours des études secondaires de leurs enfants, en plus de fournir leur degré de satisfaction à l'égard de celles-ci. Les résultats observés traduisent plusieurs suggestions d'activités permettant d'informer et d'impliquer davantage les parents dans l'orientation de leurs enfants.

Unpacking the Link Between Entrepreneurialism and Employability: an Assessment of the Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Attitudes and Likelihood of Graduate Employment in a Professional Field

Purpose This research investigates the relationship between students’ entrepreneurial attitudes and traits and their classification of employment six months after university graduation. It aims to identify what specific attitudes and traits of entrepreneurial graduates are linked to employability in a professional or managerial field. Design/Methodology The research adopts a quantitative approach to measure the entrepreneurial drive of final-year undergraduate business school students and regresses this measurement against the employment level of the same students six months after their graduation. The employment classification of each respondent was classified as ‘professional/managerial’ or ‘non-professional/non-managerial’, in line with the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) 2010. Findings The research found that both proactive disposition and achievement motivation were statistically linked to the likelihood of graduates being employed in a professional or managerial position six months after graduation. Originality/Value This research goes beyond existing literature linking entrepreneurship to employability to quantitatively examine what specific attitudes and traits can be linked to employability in recent graduates. By identifying the aspects of entrepreneurialism that have a relationship with employability, more information is available for educators who are designing entrepreneurial education programs and allows for greater focus on aspects that may be of greatest benefit to all students.

Managing sales people strategically when promoting new products: Incorporating market orientation into a sales management control framework

Salespeople play a pivotal role in promoting new products. Therefore, managers need to know what control mechanism (i.e., output-based control, behavior-based control, or knowledge-based control) can improve their salespeople's new product sales performance. Furthermore, managers may be able to assist salespeople in performing better by having a strong market orientation. The literature has been inconsistent regarding the effects of sales management control mechanisms and has not yet incorporated market orientation into a sales management control framework. The current study surveyed 315 Taiwanese salespeople from publicly traded electronics companies with the aim of contributing to the sales management literature. The results show that sales management controls can directly affect salespeople's innovativeness, which, in turn, affects new product sales performance. However, sales management controls cannot affect performance directly. Furthermore, market orientation can positively moderate the relationship between salespeople's innovativeness and new product sales performance.

Revisiting the relationship between marketing capabilities and firm performance: The moderating role of market orientation, marketing strategy and organisational power

This paper extends original insights of resource-advantage theory (Hunt & Morgan, 1995) to a specific analysis of the moderators of the capabilities-performance relationship such as market orientation, marketing strategy and organizational power. Using established measures and a representative sample of UK firms drawn from Verhoef and Leeflang’s data (2009), our study tests new hypotheses to explain how different types of marketing capabilities contribute to firm performance. The application of resource-advantage theory advances theorising on both marketing and organisational antecedents of firm performance and the causal mechanisms by which competitive advantage is generated.

Acredita Portugal: How to improve the implementation rate of entrepreneurial projects?

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics

Entrepreneurial innovative ventures: Internationalization strategy of NMusic

Field lab: Entrepreneurial and innovative ventures