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- Title
SOCIAL IMAGINARIES OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: THE UNITED STATES AND GERMANY, 1800-2020.
- Authors
WADHWANI, R. DANIEL; VIEBIG, CHRISTOPH
- Abstract
While conventional historical narratives of entrepreneurship education focuson its rise in business schools since the 1970s, this paper traces its roots to the early 19th century and chroniclesits evolutionwithin the field of higher education more broadly. Using a comparative history design, we show how changing social imaginaries of entrepreneurship educationin Germany and the United States were based on divergent and evolving justifications of entrepreneurial autonomy and its relationship to the common good. Our narrative explores howthese social imaginaries shaped themoral and political legitimacy of entrepreneurshipandtheaims, practices, and organizational forms of entrepreneurship education. We draw out the implications of this deeper history for entrepreneurship education today, including (a) its current social imaginary, (b) the character of entrepreneurial knowledge, and (c) the relationship of entrepreneurship education to the modern university.
- Subjects
GERMANY; UNITED States; SOCIAL entrepreneurship; ENTREPRENEURSHIP education; COMPARATIVE historiography; BUSINESS schools; LEGITIMACY of governments; HISTORY of education
- Publication
Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2021, Vol 20, Issue 3, p342
- ISSN
1537-260X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5465/amle.2020.0195