Towards professionalising Canadian retail management careers

Gunn, Frances; Cappuccitti, Anna; Lee, Seung Hwan

doi:10.1108/ijrdm-06-2019-0179

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“…Students often use internships as a way to test out career options, due to which they lead to improved job satisfaction by better preparation for entering work. Echoing the findings of previous research conducted with post-secondary students, Gunn et al. (2020) reported that post-secondary business students who have had a retail learning experience (i.e.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 82%

Will university internship secure you a job?: interplaying factors from an emerging market perspective

Alawamleh

Mahadin

2022

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PurposeThis paper aims to identify internship factors and their roles in obtaining employment, establishing relationships among them using interpretive structural modeling (ISM).Design/methodology/approachBased on the literature review of more than 100 studies (1982–2020), 11 internship factors were identified. This was followed by the application of ISM technique to get insights into how these factors affect employability.FindingsISM technique and empirical research aided in classifying the factors on their driving and dependence power. Further analysis identified contextual relationships between all factors and how these affect each other.Research limitations/implicationsThis study will be helpful for educators, students and managers to understand how internship affects employability through understanding of the factors and their relations.Originality/valueThis study is the first study presenting a holistic view of internship factors and how their relationships affect employability in the emerging market perspective of Jordan.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 82%

Will university internship secure you a job?: interplaying factors from an emerging market perspective

Alawamleh

Mahadin

2022

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“…Multiple authors (Stalk et al ., 1992; Srichookiat and Jindabot, 2017) argue that store managers' knowledge of their consumers can be a critical success factor for retailers, and a basis of sustainable competitive advantage, if captured correctly. Nevertheless, an understanding of the contribution of store managers (regardless of whether they are agents of the owner/manager or the owner/manager themselves) to strategic decision-making remains limited (Gunn et al, 2020; Hart et al , 2007; Grewal and Levy, 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%

Being a retailer: narratives not on display

Ruth¹,

Gunn

Elms

2021

IJRDM

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the everyday tasks and activities undertaken by retailer entrepreneurs and owner/managers when they strategize. Specifically, it interrogates the nature of the intuitive, idiosyncratic strategic agency of a retail owner/manager.Design/methodology/approachThrough adopting a combination of phenomenological and narrative approaches, focussing on illuminating the everyday operational and strategic practices of one retail entrepreneur and owner/manager, a richly contextualized, ideographic account of the procedures and outcomes of their strategizing is provided.FindingsBy revealing narratives that are seldom obvious – often kept behind the counter, and not on display – the authors are able to unravel the social reality of the retailer's decision-making, and the influences of identity, connections with customers and community, emotions and the spirit, and love and family. This study also illuminates how entrepreneurs retrospectively make sense out of the messiness of everyday life particularly when juggling the melding of personal and business realities.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper explores the experiences and reflections of the decision-making of one retail entrepreneur manager within a particular business setting. However, the use of an ideographic approach allowed for an in depth investigation of the realities of strategic practices undertaken by a retail owner that may be extrapolated beyond this immediate context.Originality/valueThis paper develops original insights into the retailer as an individual, vis-à-vis an organization, as well as nuanced understanding of the actual nature of work undertaken by retail entrepreneurs and owner/managers. To this end, this paper contributes to the “strategy-as-practice” debate in the strategic management literature, and to narrative analysis and advances insights to the perennial question: “what is a retailer?”.

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“…Firstly, whilst entrepreneurial careers were not historically viewed as career paths for graduates, changing economic conditions increasingly demand entrepreneurship education and graduate venture creation (Lourenço et al, 2013). For example, Gunn et al (2020) investigated patterns in the social construction of occupational jurisdiction and related professional career identity within the retail sector where collaborations with industry should be oriented to developing current, realistic learning experiences. This marks a need for a reform of university-level education towards entrepreneurial university education, appropriate within and across disciplines, which is flexible and responsive to learning opportunities This has been described as a revolutionary Entrepreneurship and enterprise creation paradigm that does not typically follow scientific but rather effectual logic (Mehlhorn et al, 2015).…”

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Entrepreneurial capacity-building in HEIs for embedding entrepreneurship and enterprise creation – a tripartite approach

Towers

Santoso²,

Sulkowski

et al. 2020

IJRDM

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PurposeThe aim of this paper is to conceptualise entrepreneurial capacity-building as an integrated approach within the international higher education sector. Whilst university–enterprise collaboration is recognised as being essential to promoting graduate employability and entrepreneurship, the lack of an integrated approach towards embedding entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial capacity-building with an entrepreneurial skill and mind-set prevails in the higher education sector. With reference to the retail sector, increasingly competitive job markets and the need for entrepreneurial capacity-building place growing pressures on universities to nurture career-ready graduates with entrepreneurial acumen.Design/methodology/approachThe theoretical paper presents a rationale for embedding entrepreneurship education into university curricula and for promoting university–business collaboration. Secondly, it reviews the extent to which entrepreneurial capacity-building is institutionally embedded to foster graduate entrepreneurship, university–business collaboration and business incubation within one strategic framework. Finally, the paper proposes five propositions within a tripartite approach that can foster graduate entrepreneurs with entrepreneurial skills and mind-set, useful for existing enterprises and start-ups. The implications for these propositions are discussed.FindingsThe authors propose five propositions with a tripartite approach that can foster graduate entrepreneurs with entrepreneurial skill and mind-set, skills for creating enterprises and university–enterprise collaboration within one strategic framework.Practical implicationsIncreasingly competitive job markets and the need for entrepreneurial capacity-building place growing pressures on universities to nurture career-ready graduates with entrepreneurial acumen in social science (e.g. retail, business management and accountancy) and science (e.g. pharmacy, architecture and engineering) programmes centred within the tripartite approach.Originality/valueWhilst university–enterprise collaboration is recognised as being essential to promoting graduate employability and entrepreneurship, the tripartite integrated approach embeds entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial capacity-building with an entrepreneurial skillset and mind-set in the international higher education sector.

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Towards professionalising Canadian retail management careers

Cited by 6 publications

References 32 publications

Will university internship secure you a job?: interplaying factors from an emerging market perspective

Will university internship secure you a job?: interplaying factors from an emerging market perspective

Being a retailer: narratives not on display

Entrepreneurial capacity-building in HEIs for embedding entrepreneurship and enterprise creation – a tripartite approach

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