A disaggregated view of soft skills: entrepreneurship education systems of Africa

Simba, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0276-8211, Tajeddin, M, Jones, P and Rambe, P, 2024. A disaggregated view of soft skills: entrepreneurship education systems of Africa. Journal of Small Business Management. ISSN 0047-2778

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Abstract

Much of the literature on entrepreneurship education describes the teaching concept as a whole, which means that additional work must be done to tease out its individual components. Accordingly, this study focuses on soft skills—a core component of entrepreneurship education that represents entrepreneurial behaviors, attitudes, and attributes. It examines the mechanisms underlying soft skills and entrepreneurial readiness by drawing on a mediated model of entrepreneurship education and 300 observations on aspiring South African entrepreneurs. Regression tests reveal that while soft skills determine the entrepreneurial readiness of these entrepreneurs, their impact on their ability to start, innovate, finance, and grow new ventures is mediated by the entrepreneurial processes that define their entrepreneurial journeys. This has academic, policy, and social implications as it increases the importance of developing contextual insights into the facets of soft skills in an African country to inspire policy reforms that support African entrepreneurship.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Small Business Management
Creators:	Simba, A., Tajeddin, M., Jones, P. and Rambe, P.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Date:	7 June 2024
ISSN:	0047-2778
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/00472778.2024.2356596 DOI 1902175 Other
Rights:	© 2024 the author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s)or with their consent.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	10 Jun 2024 11:57
Last Modified:	10 Jun 2024 11:57
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/51543

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