Learning opportunities and learning behaviours of small business starters: Relations with goal achievement, skill development and satisfaction

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dc.citation.volume25
dc.contributor.authorVan Gelderen, Marco
dc.contributor.authorVan der Sluis, Lidewey
dc.contributor.authorJansen, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2008-10-30T00:14:23Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-06T22:25:48Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-07T13:57:38Z
dc.date.availableNO_RESTRICTIONen_US
dc.date.available2008-10-30T00:14:23Z
dc.date.available2016-03-06T22:25:48Z
dc.date.available2016-09-07T13:57:38Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractLearning is a vital issue for small business starters, contributing to short term and long term business performance, as well as to personal development. This study investigates when and how small business starters learn. It specifies the situations that offer learning opportunities, as well as the learning behaviours that small business starters can employ in order to learn from these opportunities. In a cross-sectional, quantitative study of recently started small business founders, learning opportunities and learning behaviours are related to three outcome measures: a performance outcome (goal achievement), a personal growth outcome (skill development), and an affective evaluation outcome (satisfaction). The results show the importance of learning opportunities and learning behaviours in influencing these outcome variables, albeit not always in the directions we hypothesized.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVan Gelderen, M.; Van de Sluis, L.; Jansen, P. (2005). Learning opportunities and learning behaviours of small business starters: Relations with goal achievement, skill development and satisfaction. Small Business Economics. Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 97-108.en_US
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dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0921-898X
dc.identifier.issn1573-0913
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/9690
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.relation.isbasedonSmall Business Economics. Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 97-108en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://www.enterprisingcompetencies.com/uploads/1/5/9/7/15971972/van_gelderen_2005_sbej_leren.pdfen_US
dc.subjectLearningen_US
dc.subjectLearning opportunitiesen_US
dc.subjectLearning behavioursen_US
dc.subjectEntrepreneurshipen_US
dc.subjectSmall business start-upsen_US
dc.subjectBusiness performanceen_US
dc.subject.otherFields of Research::350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services::350200 Business and Managementen_US
dc.titleLearning opportunities and learning behaviours of small business starters: Relations with goal achievement, skill development and satisfactionen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
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