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Language ability and entrepreneurship education: necessary skills for Europe’s start-ups?

dc.contributor.authorJohnstone, Leanne
dc.contributor.authorMonteiro, Mariana Pio
dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Inês
dc.contributor.authorWesterlund, Johanna
dc.contributor.authorAalto, Roosa
dc.contributor.authorMarttinen, Jenni
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-25T19:33:48Z
dc.date.available2021-05-25T19:33:48Z
dc.date.issued2018-09-01
dc.description.abstractLanguage ability and entrepreneurial education are seen as essential resources for start-ups operating in intensified landscapes of internationalisation and globalisation. Deemed as the necessary skills for corporate effectiveness vis-à-vis rivals, this paper responds to calls for increased understandings of cultural components as vital to entrepreneurship and the product of institutional forces. Thus, it explores (a) the impact language ability has on start-up expansion; (b) the perceptions of international relations as based on language ability as a tool for cross-cultural communication; and (c) the role of educational context from the entrepreneurs’ perspective. Based on interviews from European online start-ups across three discrete contexts—Finland, Portugal and Sweden—it concludes that contextual trends regarding language and education are founded upon the cultural-cognitive and normative pillars of institutionalisation. Further, by combining actor-context perspectives, it poses that language ability and education are resources borne from the domestic environment which positively moderate the start-up’s international success. Nevertheless, the notion of learnt entrepreneurship remains contested. Taken together, this study contributes by offering deeper insight into the role of context on entrepreneurial tendencies by combining resource and institutional perspectives.pt_PT
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionpt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10843-018-0230-ypt_PT
dc.identifier.eid85045835622
dc.identifier.issn1570-7385
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/33240
dc.identifier.wos000445374000003
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectCompetitive advantagept_PT
dc.subjectEntrepreneurial orientationpt_PT
dc.subjectEntrepreneurship educationpt_PT
dc.subjectInstitutional theorypt_PT
dc.subjectLanguage abilitypt_PT
dc.subjectStart-upspt_PT
dc.titleLanguage ability and entrepreneurship education: necessary skills for Europe’s start-ups?pt_PT
dc.typejournal article
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage397pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue3pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage369pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleJournal of International Entrepreneurshippt_PT
oaire.citation.volume16pt_PT
person.familyNameJohnstone
person.givenNameLeanne
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-0916-7889
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT
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