The Entrepreneurial Shift
Americanization in European High-Technology Management Education

This volume is a provocative study of how American-led entrepreneurship transformed business education in Europe.

Robert R. Locke (Author), Katja E. Schöne (Author)

9781107403390, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 15 September 2011

266 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.4 kg

Review of the hardback: 'The study is well researched and written. It is a pioneering work because it looks at entrepreneurship, education, and technological development at the same time, and on a comparative basis in different countries. It should be obligatory reading for those interested in these subjects.' Management Decision

This volume is a provocative study of how American-led entrepreneurship transformed business education in Europe. Starting with Silicon Valley's high-technology businesses, and examining business schools in France, Germany and the Czech Republic, the book shows how management education shifted in response to an increasingly entrepreneurial business context. Traditionally, training focused on learning about existing models and how to use them to best advantage; there was little room to embrace continuous change. New technologies have been liberating, enhancing variety and change in European business schools. The educational emphasis has turned now to thinking 'outside the box'- embracing technological solutions, and creating organizations in which constant transformation is an everyday phenomenon. This study is an important contribution, and will be of interest to academics, students, and practitioners who are concerned with how and why business is and should be taught today.

1. Phenomenal Silicon Valley and the second Americanization
2. American management education - adding the entrepreneurial dimension
3. Adjusting higher education in France and Germany to a post 1945 world
4. Creating German and French entrepreneurship studies
5. Networking for high tech start-ups in Germany and France
6. The Czech Republic: an arrested development
7. Conclusions and policy recommendations.

Subject Areas: Entrepreneurship [KJH], Business strategy [KJC], Business & management [KJ], Economics [KC]