Conceptualising the Entrepreneurship Education and Employability Nexus

Andreas Walmsley; Carolin Decker-Lange; Knut Lange

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-87865-8_6

Conceptualising the Entrepreneurship Education and Employability Nexus

Andreas Walmsley^*, Carolin Decker-Lange, Knut Lange

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Strategy and International Business

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Abstract

The relationship between entrepreneurship education and the development of students’ employability presents an area of ongoing interest to those engaged in delivering and promoting entrepreneurship education. However, critical engagement with the concept of employability and how it relates to entrepreneurship education is less frequently observed. This chapter explores the nexus between entrepreneurship education and student/graduate employability, shining some light on how developments in the world of work in particular are placing greater emphasis on graduates to display enterprising behaviour. The chapter also tries to move thinking about employability away from a pure ‘skills approach’ and highlights areas where entrepreneurship education may develop attributes that are antithetical to traditional definitions of employability. Overall, the chapter seeks to broaden the discussion of the relationship between employability and entrepreneurship education and highlights three dimensions of the relationship (business start-up, intrapreneurship and career development/life skills) that could provide a foundation for further research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Theorising Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education
Subtitle of host publication	Reflections on the Development of the Entrepreneurial Mindset
Editors	Guillermo J. Larios-Hernandez, Andreas Walmsley, Itzel Lopez-Castro
Publisher	Springer
Pages	97-114
Number of pages	18
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030878658
ISBN (Print)	9783030878641, 9783030878672
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87865-8_6
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2022

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Keywords

Employability
Entrepreneurial mindset
Graduate labour market
Higher education policy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
General Business,Management and Accounting

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Walmsley, A., Decker-Lange, C., & Lange, K. (2022). Conceptualising the Entrepreneurship Education and Employability Nexus. In G. J. Larios-Hernandez, A. Walmsley, & I. Lopez-Castro (Eds.), Theorising Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education: Reflections on the Development of the Entrepreneurial Mindset (1 ed., pp. 97-114). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87865-8_6

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