Bhatia, Ashish and Levina, Natalia (2020) The diverse rationalities of entrepreneurship education : epistemic stance perspective. Academy of Management Learning & Education . doi:10.5465/amle.2019.0201 (In Press)

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Abstract

There is a healthy skepticism regarding whether one can learn entrepreneurship in a business classroom setting. One unique challenge of entrepreneurship education is that at least to some degree entrepreneurship involves disruptions of the usual business rules, norms, and models. Furthermore, entrepreneurship may not conform to the scientific management rationality that is promoted in most management education. This underscores a dilemma: in a business school, how do we teach a discipline that may not conform to our traditional ideas of rationality? Prior research has observed a variety of definitions and approaches taken to teaching entrepreneurship, yet scholars have given less consideration to how we are constructing knowledge in entrepreneurship education and the nature of the rationality we are enacting in the process. In this field study we show that three MBA programs address the challenge of entrepreneurship education by enacting distinct attitudes toward knowledge in entrepreneurship, or epistemic stances--each aligning to a different extent with the notion of scientific rationality. We offer the epistemic stance lens a new avenue for understanding the practiced rationality of business education. Using this lens, we show the breadth of what is “rational” in entrepreneurship education beyond scientific management rationality.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HF Commerce
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Information Systems & Management Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Business education, Entrepreneurship -- Study and teaching|, Educational technology, Organizational learning
Journal or Publication Title:	Academy of Management Learning & Education
Publisher:	Academy of Management
ISSN:	1537-260X
Official Date:	26 June 2020
Dates:	Date Event 26 June 2020 Available 26 June 2020 Accepted
Date of first compliant deposit:	7 August 2020
DOI:	10.5465/amle.2019.0201
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	In Press
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access

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