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2. Revisiting Entrepreneurship Education in Ghana: Institutional Dynamics, Implications, and the Way Forward

verfasst von : George Acheampong, Oliver Kwabena Aggrey, Abdul-Malik Adam

Erschienen in: Understanding Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

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Abstract

This chapter seeks to expatiate the underpinnings of entrepreneurship education and training within institutional boundaries. We perform a qualitative enquiry based on a single-case participatory study to explore the linkages between the development of an entrepreneurship training programme and institutional isomorphism within the University of Ghana. We find that, in the quest to develop a successful entrepreneurship education and training programme, institutional factors come to play. Essentially, factors such as knowledge of external programmes, higher institutional authority endorsements, and external partnerships are relevant to ensuring maximum impact. Consequently, institutional contexts should be of interests to entrepreneurship education scholarship and as such conceptual extensions should be considered in future entrepreneurship education and training works.

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Metadaten
Titel
Revisiting Entrepreneurship Education in Ghana: Institutional Dynamics, Implications, and the Way Forward
verfasst von
George Acheampong
Oliver Kwabena Aggrey
Abdul-Malik Adam
Copyright-Jahr
2024
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50128-9_2

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