Human capital in the entrepreneurship ecosystem

Østergaard, Annemarie; Marinova, Svetla Trifonova

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2018.095907

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“…Moreover, [33] noted that authentic leadership promotes creative behaviors within employees; hence, organizations need to concentrate on leaders who value transparency as they relate with their employees. Further, [34] indicated that authentic leadership significantly and positively correlated with employees' creative behaviors. Based on these annotations, the following hypothesis, related to authentic leadership and employee creativity, is proposed below: H2: Authentic leadership significantly influences creativity among bank employees in Nigeria.…”

Section: Authentic Leadership and Employee Creativitymentioning

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Stimulating creative behaviors in the work environment: influences of employee engagement, authentic leadership, and human capital factors on employee creativity

Adekanmbi

Ukpere

2021

Eureka: SH

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This paper investigates employee engagement, authentic leadership and human capital factors’ influences on the creative behaviors of bank employees within Nigeria’s banking industry. This investigation’s sample was taken from a selection of banks (Guarantee Trust Bank Plc, First Bank Plc, and United Bank For Africa Plc) across the Lagos and Ibadan cities of Lagos and Oyo States, Nigeria. This paper adopts a survey study approach, and questionnaires were randomly circulated. However, out of the 300 questionnaires distributed, 273 were fit to be used for the research and analyzed via statistical packages for social sciences (SPSS vs. 26). The current findings suggest that the younger the bank employees, the more creative they are. The higher their educational level and work experience, the more creative they are within Nigeria’s banking industry. The current investigation further established that employee engagement and authentic leadership significantly and positively influence creativity amongst employees within Nigeria’s banking industry. Therefore, the management of the Nigerian banks needs to consider spurring of employees’ sense of belonging and engagement to help stimulate and nurture their creativity. They should also consider essential authentic leadership training for their managers to help them discharge their leadership functions, related to the positive development of their subordinates’ creative behaviors and the human capital factors in stimulating employee creativity.

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Section: Authentic Leadership and Employee Creativitymentioning

confidence: 96%

Stimulating creative behaviors in the work environment: influences of employee engagement, authentic leadership, and human capital factors on employee creativity

Adekanmbi

Ukpere

2021

Eureka: SH

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“…Human capital is defined as a combination of education and labour skills (Østergaard and Marinova, 2018), or as the knowledge, experience, amount of training and insights that exist within an individual (Daly et al, 2018). Thus, human capital could be interpreted as the competencies and skills acquired by individuals through their working experience, education or training.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Human capital competencies are essential for businesses and their entrepreneurial ecosystems (Østergaard and Marinova, 2018). Davidsson and Honig (2003) argued that human capital could affect the behaviour of individuals and support their entry into nascent entrepreneurship.…”

Section: Leadership Styles and Human Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The interaction between leadership styles and their followers' human capital: a correspondence analysis approach applied to micro-sized businesses

Al-Awlaqi

Aamer²,

Barahma

et al. 2021

JMD

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the tendency of leaders to select their followers depending on their human capital factors such as age, education level, previous working experience and training.Design/methodology/approachThe participants were 1,388 employees working in a randomly selected sample of 289 small-sized businesses operating in Yemen. A self-reported questionnaire was used to collect the data. The correspondence analysis method was used to explore the tendency of leaders to select their followers depending on their human capital factors.FindingsWe found significant corresponding relationships between leadership styles and the selection of the followers' human capital factors. The passive avoidant style was found to select middle-age, long-experience and fully-trained followers. Transactional style on the other hand was found to select young, middle-level experience and non-trained followers. The transformational leadership style was found to have no selection preferences towards any of the human capital factors except for working experience.Originality/valueAlthough, some previous studies tried to understand the leaders–followers relationships, no one investigated the tendency of leaders to select their followers according to their preferences. This study contributes significantly to the leaders–followers theory by studying the selection process of the leadership style of their followers' human capital factors. Understanding this phenomenon could help explain why some leadership styles are more effective than others, especially in very limited resources contexts such as micro-sized businesses.

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“…Last but not the least, human resource is pivotal to elevate an economy by providing skilled manpower. In entrepreneurial ecosystem context it also surrounds labour issues in terms of entrepreneurial skills and expertise, as well as educational institution in producing graduates and conducting entrepreneurship training (Østergaard, A., & Marinova, S. T., 2018).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship Ecosystemmentioning

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Nurturing Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in a Developing Economy: Myths and Realities

Mubarak

Yusoff²,

Mubarik³

et al. 2019

JTMB

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Entrepreneurship is considered as a panacea for economic infirmities. Development and prosperity can be fostered, upon the organized availability of the required resources, ambidextrously. Entrepreneurship ecosystem is an appropriate approach where a systematic and conducive atmosphere for business activities is paved by providing support and services in the area of business policy, financing, human capital availability, infrastructure accessibility, entrepreneurial culture orientation and internationalization of indigenous products. However, despite having numerous entrepreneurship reinforce institutions, the entrepreneurship ecosystem of many developing countries is still sluggish, Pakistan is prominent among those. To improve entrepreneurship ecosystem, experts have endorsed the role of state 'pivotal'. In this study, the entrepreneurship ecosystem of Pakistan is explored by focusing the role of government along other dimensions. For the purpose of this examination, an inductive approach was adopted in which twelve open ended interviews were conducted from policy makers, entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship professors and trade associations across the country. After thematic analysis, entrepreneurial ecosystem was found stagnant, where the role of government revealed as ambivalent, yet unfriendly and deficient. In order to develop entrepreneurship, a specific national policy for entrepreneurship should be enacted on priority and then 'one size fit approach' must be relinquished.

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Human capital in the entrepreneurship ecosystem

Cited by 15 publications

References 37 publications

Stimulating creative behaviors in the work environment: influences of employee engagement, authentic leadership, and human capital factors on employee creativity

Stimulating creative behaviors in the work environment: influences of employee engagement, authentic leadership, and human capital factors on employee creativity

The interaction between leadership styles and their followers' human capital: a correspondence analysis approach applied to micro-sized businesses

Nurturing Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in a Developing Economy: Myths and Realities

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