Learning by doing – An exploration of experience, critical incidents and reflection in entrepreneurial learning

By J. Cope, G. Watts. 2000

999 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Education, Management of Technology and Innovation

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In Clinical Psychology

1. M. van Gelderen
2. L. Pittaway
3. Martin Mulder
4. Thomas Lans
5. J. Verstegen
6. E. Shaw
7. T. Fenwick
8. Paul L. Nesbit

In Education

1. M. van Gelderen
2. Thomas Lans
3. Martin Mulder
4. J. Verstegen
5. Michael H. Morris
6. Heiko Haase
7. Harm J. A. Biemans
8. L. Pittaway

In Management of Technology and Innovation

1. Michael H. Morris
2. M. van Gelderen
3. Martin Mulder
4. E. Hamilton
5. Thomas Lans
6. D. Kuratko
7. Allan Macpherson
8. Minet Schindehutte

Citations in the corpus

• Keep Calm and Carry On: Emotion Regulation in Entrepreneurs’ Learning from Failure (2018, background): “In addition, our focus on entrepreneurs’ concrete learning behaviors extends the entrepreneurial learning literature by providing important insights into how entrepreneurs draw lessons from critical learning events (Cope & Watts, 2000).”
• Learning Opportunities and Learning Behaviours of Small Business Starters: Relations with Goal Achievement, Skill Development and Satisfaction (2004, background): “Relation between learning behaviours and entrepreneurial success In the context of the small business start-up, we expect all learning behaviours to be positively related to skill development (Cope and Watts, 2000).”
• Perseverance Strategies for Enterprising Individuals (2012, methodology): “Cope (2003) and Cope and Watts (2000) concentrate on learning from adversity.”
• Improvised internationalization in new ventures: The role of prior knowledge and networks (2011, background): “Cope and Watts ( 2000 ) argue that extending the focus from discrete incidents to complex episodes allows the researcher to identify and test the criticality of any given incident.”
• Signalling entrepreneurs’ credibility and project quality for crowdfunding success: cases from the Kickstarter and Indiegogo environments (2021, background): “The signal of failure experience allows them to demonstrate a track record of learning that can often lead to the development of knowledge and skills (Cope &Watts, 2000), which in turn prepares entrepreneurs to launch a better new project.”
• The role of mentoring in the learning development of the novice entrepreneur (2012, background): “Cope and Watts (2000) suggest that critical events, or even critical “periods” are especially conducive to the development of higher-level learning, as described by Fiol and Lyles (1985), or double-loop learning according to Argyris and Schon (1978).”
• A study of a university-led entrepreneurship education programme for small business owner/managers (2012, background): “However, there was an important emergent literature in the area of entrepreneurial learning which commonly focused on the owner/manager as the unit of analysis (Reuber and Fischer 1993 ; Gibb 1997 ; Cope and Watts 2000 ; Rae and Carswell 2000 ; Minniti and Bygrave 2001 ; Cope 2003 ).”
• Small Firm Networking (2006, background): “They suggest that at one extreme researchers will select the whole organization as the focus of the research (Chetty and Hamilton, 1995; Ram, 1999) while at the other the owner will be the focus of the research (Cope and Watts, 2000; McMullan and Vesper, 2000).”