Social Entrepreneurship and Participatory Experiences of Service-Learning in University Business Training

The chapter presents a proactive analysis of the teaching of inclusive entrepreneurship based on the progress of an investigation. Theoretical development involves the concepts of entrepreneurship as opportunities management and inclusive entrepreneurship with pedagogy, didactics, pedagogical practice, and professional practice. From this conceptual framework, the idea of participatory experiences of service-learning and citizenship that is not yet an elaborate concept or idea, but rather, it is a construct with a strong pedagogical and didactic dimension that defines relevant horizons of action to consolidate from the curriculum, specific processes of professional training.

Human Resources Management and Its Contribution to Colombian SME Sustainability

Based on the hypothesis that human resources management directly depends on a set of organizational components that are the core for SMEs sustainability, this chapter expands previous findings in the literature. Based on a multiple regression analysis and MMOM (modernization model for organization management) implementation in 246 Colombian SMEs (small and medium enterprises), the authors show that some organizational components explain and generate 64.86% of human resources management best practices.

The More Aging, The More Managing?

The contemporary world is continuously changing. These changes are dynamic and take place under the influence of some social, economic, political, and cultural processes, subject to a global economy. Its further active development will depend both on their ability to compete more and more based on non-cost factors as well as existing external constraints, including regulatory barriers. Based on anonymous surveys, the chapter aims to present an analysis of motives, fears, problems, support, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of creating and running startups by people aged 50+.

National Public Policy of Aging and Old Age

The application of the public policy of aging and old age in the city of Bogotá in the last 10 years has forced people over 60 years to regularly undertake activities in which they worked for many years as employees. Other older adults have continued working to meet their basic needs. However, under this reference, the methodology used in the research was a mixed qualitative-quantitative approach because the two are of great importance to deduce whether the national public policy of aging has brought advantages or disadvantages to the development and/or continuity of the business plans being prepared by senior entrepreneurs.

ICTs and Knowledge Management Synergies to Impulse Senior Entrepreneurship

This chapter deals with an analysis of how information and communication technologies and knowledge management may have several synergies that might help entrepreneurship, discussing the benefits and advantages of these elements and synergies involved when considered together. There are also some essential perspectives of this issues that may help entrepreneurs to achieve their objectives and might help them to introduce their enterprises into the digital transformation that is currently impacting on the evolution of all companies. There are many points to be considered and analyzed from different points of view.

Application of a Fuzzy System to the Analysis of Entrepreneurial Intention in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia

Asymmetries in the relative growth of Latin American countries and the disparities in both institutional performance and cultural aspects validate the search for new explanations in analyzing the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth. In this sense, although the study of entrepreneurial intention (EI) has received greater attention in the setting of academic research and design of public policy, the literature voids remain related with the treatment of the phenomenon as a multidimensional problem in situations in which the information available is scarce and not structured. Due to the aforementioned, this document proposes a mathematical model based on fussy logic techniques from the study of the factors that impact upon the EI of undergraduate students in administration in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.

Industrial Firm Performance, Entrepreneurial Age, and Managerial Practice

Some authors and entrepreneurs have weaknesses in their infrastructure, innovation, and management skills. Industrial SMEs contribute to the productivity of countries. In recent years a group of senior entrepreneurs refers to those individuals aged 50 or over who have created a business. It is assumed that senior entrepreneurs have had more time to accumulate human capital. However, human capital can also depreciate. This document analyzes the performance of industrial companies according to the ages and managerial practices of the entrepreneurs, with a sample of 383 companies. Based on two components of the Blackman model, the durability of the SME that depends on the conditions of the entrepreneur, their characteristics, and their management practices. The research design is based on a quasi-experimental and multifactorial, quantitative and deductive methodology. The third part of the entrepreneurs used six management practices that were accompanied by economic benefits. Twelve percent of managing owners are over 40 years of age and show similar performance to younger entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurship Initiatives About Aging

In the last 25 years, Japan has become a very aged society due to several reasons, among them one of the lowest world rates of fertility, natality and immigration, and, on the opposite, the world's longest life expectancy rate. Due to this situation, there's a huge opportunity to new products and services devoted to elder people, which have become to be called aging products and services. Consequently, entrepreneurship in Japan has focused as well on these products and services, and many initiatives have arisen to fill this demand. However, strong cultural factors of the Wa Country limit the development of star-ups and projects related to aging, as regards to other developed countries, as it is reviewed in this work.

Sustainability of Social Enterprises

Evidence supporting the budding role of social enterprises in fostering sustained socio-economic development of regions and communities across the globe are evolving continuously. Hence, the global upsurge in the social enterprise research and practice is appreciated, considering social enterprise primarily is presumed to have great potential in solving a range of social problems. Even though social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have remained central and thought-provoking in the realm of scholarly investigation for the past few decades, the emerging literature on social enterprise and their role in economic development is riddled with theoretical inconsistencies and definitional controversies. Thus, little or no rational knowledge about their functioning and management is available. Further, factors influencing the sustainability of social enterprises have rarely been explored and deliberated. Thus, the purpose of this chapter is to identify and analyze the factors which influence the sustainability of social enterprises with focus on India.

Senior Entrepreneurship in the Neighborhood Stores

Senior entrepreneurship is a topic that has recently given rise to research processes, given the change that occurs in the composition of the world population, with a declining birth rate and a life expectancy upward, and the permanent need of governments to generate more jobs. The first studies of senior entrepreneurship were conducted in the mid-90s, when it began to be identified that people over 50 were developing business initiatives, late, with particularities that differentiated them from the creation of companies in a general framework. In Colombia research processes have not been developed on this topic, and given the importance of it, this chapter presents the results of entrepreneurship in neighborhood stores, establishing the differences that are found between young entrepreneurs and mature entrepreneurs, in the integral management of their business.