Rethinking Entrepreneurial Human Capital (eBook)

Giulio Bosio is a post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His main research interests are in the field of labor economics, applied micro-econometrics and economics of education. His current research is on the effect of entrepreneurial education on academic and labour market performance; product market regulation and job polarization; temporary contracts and wage.Tommaso Minola is Assistant Professor (tenured) at the Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering (DIGIP), and co-founder and Director of the Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE) at the University of Bergamo, Italy. Tommaso has been visiting researcher, amongst others, at University of Cambridge (UK) and University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). He has also been TOFT Visiting Professor at Jönköping International Business School (Sweden). His research deals with studying how the different dimensions of the entrepreneur, as well as the entrepreneurial processes and outcomes, develop within distinctive contexts of social embeddedness. His articles have been published in leading international academic journals in innovation, entrepreneurship and small business, such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Small Business Economics, Journal of Small Business Management, The Journal of Technology Transfer and R&D Management.Federica Origo is Associate Professor at the Department of Management, Economics and Quantitative Methods at the University of Bergamo, Italy, where she coordinates the Bachelor degree in Economics and teaches economics and social institutions in labour markets. She is also board member of the Centre for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE) of the University of Bergamo and appointed professor of personnel economics at the Catholic University of Milan. Her main research interests are in the field of labor economics, economics of education, industrial relations and the evaluation of public policies. Stefano Tomelleri is associate professor of Sociology in the Department of Human and Social Sciences at University of Bergamo. He is Deputy Director of Center for Young and Family Enterprise (CYFE) at University of Bergamo. His interests of research mainly focus on the study of emotions as simultaneously present in individuals, social structures and interpersonal relationships. He has recently published the book 'Ressentiment - Reflection on Mimetic Desire and Society' (Michigan State University Press, 2015).

Acknowledgments 6
Contents 8
List of Contributors 10
Introduction 13
1 Structural Changes and Entrepreneurial Human Capital 16
2 Collaboration and Innovation in Entrepreneurship Education Practices 19
3 Conclusion 21
References 22
Part I: Structural Changes and Entrepreneurial Human Capital 25
Is the Nature of Jobs Changing? The Role of Technological Progress and Structural Change in the Labour Market 26
1 Automation, Technological Progress and Employment 26
2 The Industrial Robots 30
3 ICT, Digital Revolution and Demand for Skills 31
4 The Routine-Biased Technological Change 33
5 Routinization and Structural Change: The Role of Occupations 34
6 The ``Task´´ Approach to Labour Market 36
7 Evidence on Job Polarization in Europe 39
7.1 Within-Industry and Between-Industry Components of Job Polarization: A Shift-Share Analysis 43
8 Technological Progress, Innovation and Entrepreneurship 46
9 Discussion and Conclusion 47
Appendix 49
References 50
Mutual Gains? The Role for Employee Engagement in the Modern Workplace 53
1 The History of Employee Engagement 53
2 The Concept of Employee Engagement and the Employer Scorecard 55
3 Are There Mutual Gains? 60
4 Conclusions and Implications 65
Appendix 69
References 69
Entrepreneurs´ Export Orientation and Growth Aspirations: The Moderating Role of Individual Human Capital 73
1 Introduction 73
2 Theory and Hypotheses 75
2.1 Entrepreneurs´ Export Orientation and Growth Aspirations 75
2.2 The Moderating Role of Individual Human Capital: Higher Education and Entrepreneurial Experience 76
3 Methodology 79
3.1 Data and Sample 79
3.2 Variables Measurement 81
3.3 Methodological Approach 84
4 Results 86
4.1 Descriptive Results 86
4.2 Multilevel Model Results 86
4.3 Robustness Tests 91
5 Discussion 92
References 94
Collaboration and Entrepreneurship Education: Requirements and Perspective 98
1 From philìa to societas: The Central Role of the Person 99
2 philìa, the Key of Business and Collaboration 100
3 The Lesson of Xenophon 102
4 From Xenophon to European Documents 105
5 Perspectives from Italy 108
References 110
Part II: Collaboration and Innovation in Entrepreneurship Education Practices 114
Entrepreneurship Education as a Service 115
1 Introduction 115
2 Entrepreneurship Education 117
3 Service Science Theory 118
4 The Service Science Canvas and Its Application to Entrepreneurship Education 120
5 Case: Worcester Polytechnic Institute 125
6 Conclusion 132
References 133
Collaborative Practices and Multidisciplinary Research: The Dialogue Between Entrepreneurship, Management, and Data Science 136
1 Introduction 137
2 Overview of Cases 139
2.1 Five Examples of Cross-Fertilizations Between Management, Entrepreneurship, and ICT 141
3 Conclusions and Implications for Entrepreneurship Research 154
References 155
What Happened Next? A Follow-Up Study of the Long-Term Relevance and Impact of a Collaborative Research Project 160
1 Introduction 160
2 The Collaborative Research Approach 161
2.1 Collaborative Process and Relationship: A Social Perspective 162
2.2 The Impact of Collaborative Research: Short Term and Long Term 164
3 Background of the Research Project: A Brief Summary 165
3.1 The Company 165
3.2 Overview of the Research Process 166
3.3 Overview of the Results 166
4 The Follow-Up Study 167
4.1 A New and Extended Meaning of Creativity 168
4.2 An Enhanced Role for the Company Archive 169
4.3 New Arenas for Collaboration 169
5 Discussion 170
5.1 The Social Nature of Collaborative Management Research 170
5.2 Criteria for Impactful Collaborative Research 172
6 Implications for Collaborative Research and Soft Skills 173
7 Conclusions 175
References 175
Enhancing Collaboration: Does a Game Make a Difference? 179
1 Introduction 180
2 Collaboration and Related Concepts 180
3 Cooperative Learning, Sociological Games and Collaboration 183
3.1 What Is a Sociological Game? 183
3.2 Theoretical Aspects Incorporated into the Game 184
4 And Finally: The Game 185
4.1 Trainer´s Guide 187
5 Data and Descriptive Statistics 190
6 Results 192
7 Conclusions 196
References 197