Entrepreneurial Learning and Critical Reflection
研究了创业过程中重大、非连续事件如何触发超越常规积累的更高层次学习,并指出这种学习源于内向的批判性自我反思,对创业者个人和商业发展至关重要。
The importance of ‘learning events’ has become an emergent theme within theorizing on how entrepreneurs learn. This article builds a deeper understanding of the learning outcomes triggered by significant, discontinuous events during the entrepreneurial process. It suggests that the domain of entrepreneurship represents a special and unique context in which to study management learning. It is argued that there is more to learning from discontinuous events than the incremental accumulation of more routinized, habitual, ‘lower-level’ learning. This article illustrates that these events have the capacity to stimulate distinctive forms of ‘higher-level’ learning—learning that is fundamental to the entrepreneur in both personal and business terms. It goes on to explore the concept of critical reflection and suggests that these learning outcomes are the result of what can be described most precisely as ‘inward’ critical self-reflection.