This timely Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research, empirical advances and insights in the field of entrepreneurial learning. It identifies critical gaps and avenues for future scholarly inquiry and presents a comprehensive, well-informed overview of the field to guide academic discourse and real-world entrepreneurial development initiatives. The Handbook features contributions from leading experts from across the globe to further the field’s understanding of how entrepreneurs develop the necessary knowledge, skills and mindset to start and grow successful businesses. It explores environmental, organisational and individual factors that shape the entrepreneurial learning process. By shedding light on these contextual elements, the Handbook equips scholars and practitioners with a nuanced and well-rounded grasp of how to learn and develop over time. The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Learning is a valuable resource for scholars, researchers and students of business management, entrepreneurship and organisational innovation. Entrepreneurship educators, programme developers, business consultants and advisors, policymakers and entrepreneurs will also benefit from the applied nature of the text.

Table of Contents:
Contents 1 Introduction to the handbook of research on entrepreneurial learning 1 Lise Aaboen, Jonas Gabrielsson and Diamanto Politis PART I CONCEPTUAL AND INTEGRATIVE FRAMEWORKS 2 Understanding intrapreneurial learning 25 Nataliya Galan 3 Entrepreneurial learning insights from the context of social entrepreneurship 39 Dante Di Gregorio, Joel Ryman and Karla Corres Luna 4 Assessing entrepreneurial learning 56 Sandrine Le Pontois and Stéphane Foliard 5 Learning in entrepreneurial ecosystems 76 Indu Khurana and Dev K. Dutta 6 Revisiting the classics 90 Agnieszka Kurczewska PART II COGNITIONS AND BEHAVIORS 7 Experiential learning style and entrepreneurial opportunity perception 102 Alexandros Kakouris, Panagiotis Liargovas and Heather Fulford 8 Embracing an entrepreneurial identity through entrepreneurial learning 117 Gunn-Berit Neergård and Torgeir Aadland 9 Myself, my relationships with others, and who I want to be 131 Matteo Opizzi, Alessia Pinna and Michela Loi 10 Entrepreneurial learning among novice entrepreneurs in the tourism industry 156 Sølvi Solvoll, Sanna Ilonen and Dag Håkon Haneberg PART III COLLABORATIONS AND COMMUNITIES 11 Creating communities of practice with established entrepreneurs 173 Lisa Anderson and Allan Macpherson 12 Learning within an early-stage entrepreneurial community 188 Servane Delanoë-Gueguen and Gaël Gueguen 13 Entrepreneurs’ social skill-set and entrepreneurial learning 204 Wadid Lamine, Sarah Jack, Alain Fayolle and Sarfraz Mian 14 Entrepreneurial learning through mentoring 221 Étienne St-Jean and Soumaya Meddeb PART IV PEDAGOGIES AND CURRICULA 15 Emancipatory entrepreneurship education through critical pedagogy 243 Charlotte Felix-Faure and Alain Fayolle 16 Entrepreneurial (un)learning through games 255 Julie Hermans, Amélie Jacquemin and Emilie Malcourant 17 Hybridizing entrepreneurial learning 268 Joseph Tixier 18 Assessment and feedback of entrepreneurial learning outcomes 284 Breda Kenny, Helen McGuirk and Therese Moylan