Affirming entrepreneurship: the best hope for organizations

Abstract

Purpose

The business world has long heralded the value of entrepreneurial talent. Not surprisingly, there has been tremendous growth in entrepreneurship over the past 25 years. Sustaining this momentum will depend, in part, on elevating entrepreneurship education to the next level, through the adoption of entrepreneurship into both graduate and undergraduate core curricula. This paper aims to examine this issue.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper presents and investigates major points illustrating why it is necessary to more fully integrate entrepreneurship into business education.

Findings

The paper finds that the catalysts for change include: the lack of entrepreneurial talent at executive levels in most organizations; the dominance of analysis‐driven “managers” at all levels of business organizations; the fact that entrepreneurship skills and processes can be learned; and the current state of entrepreneurship education.

Originality/value

The paper provides useful information on the development of entrepreneurial talent through education.

Citation

Morrisette, S. and Schraeder, M. (2007), "Affirming entrepreneurship: the best hope for organizations", Development and Learning in Organizations, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 15-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/14777280710717434