Creating Entrepreneurial Identities in Social Entrepreneurship Education
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Transcript of Creating Entrepreneurial Identities in Social Entrepreneurship Education
Peter H. Hackbert, and Karla S. RobinsonBerea College
Society of Business ResearchNashville ConferenceOctober 23-25, 2014
Creating Entrepreneurial Identities in Social Entrepreneurship
Education
What is and Who is Berea College?
1,600 Liberal Arts undergraduates
$ 40 M Budget
$ 1 B Endowment
$ 25,000 cost of education
122 Tenured faculty
EPG By the Numbers
What is EPG?
Program Improvement Goals
Review the Literature
Methods
Results
Conclusions
1. Program Improvements
(1) to instill a desire to proactively help find solutions to critical social issues
(2) to instill a belief that they have the ability to actually make a difference
EPG Program goal
I want to help tackle the world’s social ills because
“that is who I am.”
“I can be a social entrepreneur” world’s
“I am confident that I truly can make a difference in
the world”
“I can begin right now.”
2. REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE
Social identity - Tajfel & Turner, 1997
Self-efficacy - Bandura, 1997
Entrepreneurial identity - Donnellon, Ollila and Middleton, 2014; Ollila & Middleton, 2013)
3. METHODS
a) Two separate studies with two different age groups representing different points in the education and career pipeline.
b) Reflection promptsc) Alumni Survey
Field Work
The Model
Identity construction & Excerptsself-efficacy themes
Socialization and collectivityUse of Oral symbolsStorytellingSelf-efficacy
Socialization /Collective Identity
Biography assignment
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation
Appalachian IDEAS Network Showcase
Use of Oral Symbols
Ashoka Foundation
Echo Green’s Work on Purpose
Startup Weekends
Storytelling
All Hands dinners
2nd Summer Internship stories
Self-efficacy
Mastery experiences
Modeling
Social persuasion
4. Results of the descriptive excerpts
Identity construction & Excerptsself-efficacy themes
Socialization and collectivity 1Use of Oral symbols 2Storytelling 3Self-efficacy
Study 2 Alumni Self-Study
Quantitative Results
My ability to be enterprising
increased as a result of the EPG
program. 19 53% 8 22% 3 8% 0 0% 1 3% 14% 4.42
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Conclusion