Putting pedagogy back in: moving from 'whether' to 'when' compulsory entrepreneurship education 'works'

Udeozor, V ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7025-8221, Ogundana, OM ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0121-7231, Umoru, U ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9281-9344 and Hughes, M, 2025. Putting pedagogy back in: moving from 'whether' to 'when' compulsory entrepreneurship education 'works'. Journal of Small Business Management. ISSN 0047-2778

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Abstract

The growing interest in entrepreneurship education has sparked a debate about how pedagogy can support an intention to innovate. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior, we examine the links between experiential pedagogy, students' intention to innovate, and entrepreneurial intent. Using structural equation modeling on a survey of 361 students of compulsory entrepreneurship education across public and private universities in a developing economy, we find that compulsory entrepreneurship education alone has minimal impact on entrepreneurial intent and innovation intention. However, engaged faculty and out-of-class experiences, both elements of experiential pedagogy, positively influence attitudes and behavior towards entrepreneurship, regardless of university type. Out-of-class experiences notably boost innovation intentions, mediated by behavioral control. Our findings contribute to entrepreneurship education scholarship by highlighting the efficacy of experiential pedagogy in resource-constrained environments and informing the optimization of entrepreneurship education strategies in developing economies.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Journal of Small Business Management
Creators:	Udeozor, V., Ogundana, O.M., Umoru, U. and Hughes, M.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Date:	4 February 2025
ISSN:	0047-2778
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/00472778.2024.2448981 DOI 2331431 Other
Rights:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Small Business Management on 4 Feb 2025, available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00472778.2024.2448981
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham Business School
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	08 Jan 2025 09:26
Last Modified:	07 Feb 2025 16:45
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52803

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