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Introduction
The main aim of the special issue is to bring forward a contextually sensitive understanding of the role institutions has played in different countries for cementing entrepreneurship as a subject in education, broadly defined. To meet the aim, we encourage scholars to develop studies that apply institutional analysis at national and global levels (e.g., EU) or develop historical analysis of how entrepreneurship has developed within educational systems across the globe. The focus will be on developing a broad understanding of how entrepreneurship education is interpreted and understood across different contexts and how formal institutions (such as policy) and informal institutions (such as culture) have played different roles in the promotion and development of entrepreneurship education.
The special issue invites studies that examine the agency of institutional actors, including policymakers, educational leaders, teachers, universities, intermediary organizations, and students, in translating, resisting, adapting, or advancing entrepreneurship education across different institutional settings.
Furthermore, this special issue is tapping into a black box related to entrepreneurship education research. Over the last three to four decades the field of entrepreneurship education has grown significantly and there has been a general promotion by national governments and in the last two decades we have seen a clear push in promoting entrepreneurial behaviour by means of education (e.g., EU has entrepreneurship as a key pillar for the future, and several countries that have national policies promoting entrepreneurship education, like South Africa). However, the institutional support and policies, and cultural values and attitudes that promote entrepreneurship education has received rather scant scrutiny from researchers in comparison to scholarly work on pedagogical development and graduate entrepreneurship and the cost of educating entrepreneurs.
Therefore, this special issue seeks to take stock how formal and informal institutions, together with the actors who interpret and enact them, have influenced the development of entrepreneurship education differently across contexts.
List of Topic Areas
- How has policy enabled or disabled the development of entrepreneurship as a subject in education?
- What role has formal institutions played in the development of entrepreneurship education?
- How has informal institutional practices played a role historically for the inclusion of entrepreneurship and small business in education?
- How cultural values and attitudes influences the development of entrepreneurship education?
- How regulative, normative and cultural-cognitive dimensions impact entrepreneurship education?
Submissions Information
Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available here: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/et
Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see here: https://www.emerald.com/et
Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to ““Please select the issue you are submitting to”.
Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.
Key Deadlines
Open submission window: 31st May 2027
Close submission window: 30th September 2027
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