Integrating Ethics into Entrepreneurship Education: An Exploratory Textbook Analysis
Tesfayohannes, Mengsteab, Driscoll, Cathy, Journal of Entrepreneurship Education
ABSTRACT
In this study, we content analyzed a sample of small business and entrepreneurship textbooks to assess the extent to which ethics is integrated into them. Our findings show significantly limited integration and coverage of ethics concepts and applications. We discuss a possible missing link between small business, entrepreneurship, and ethics in business textbooks and also discuss some implications for better integrating ethics into entrepreneurship education.
INTRODUCTION
Ethical entrepreneurship has grown into an accepted phenomenon.
Wempe, 2005,p.211
Since the emergence of entrepreneurship as an academic field, entrepreneurship education …
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Publication information:
Article title: Integrating Ethics into Entrepreneurship Education: An Exploratory Textbook Analysis.
Contributors: Tesfayohannes, Mengsteab - Author, Driscoll, Cathy - Author.
Journal title: Journal of Entrepreneurship Education.
Volume: 13.
Publication date: January 1, 2010.
Page number: 85+.
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