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Developing entrepreneurial mindset through sustainability-informed entrepreneurial education

Open Access
|Jul 2025

Abstract

There is a growing social demand for educational systems to lead towards more sustainability-informed entrepreneurial education, to help enhance entrepreneurial mindsets. Entrepreneurial education emerges as critical in ensuring the development of academic and professional training that brings sustainability changes to existing business models - integrating the development of sustainability-informed critical thinking, problem-solving and problem-framing skills attune to current and emerging business challenges. To help prepare future entrepreneurs, this paper explores the traditional knowledge practices of the entrepreneurial mindset and the importance of identifying alternative approaches to reduce the disconnection between traditional learning theories, educational systems and models that allow entrepreneurs to innovate, and to respond to the business demand for sustainability-informed teaching and learning practices. The essential roles of entrepreneurs and the paths of their mindset development are explored to help unfold their potential to support and develop sustainability-informed entrepreneurship.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ijm-2024-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2451-2834 | Journal ISSN: 1649-248X
Language: English
Page range: 59 - 70
Submitted on: Feb 11, 2024
Accepted on: Jan 11, 2025
Published on: Jul 8, 2025
Published by: Irish Academy of Management
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 3 issues per year

© 2025 Anna Zherdeva, Intesar Madi, Abrar Alzankawi, Deirdre McQuillan, Lucía Morales, published by Irish Academy of Management
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