Writing Entrepreneurs

Spartz, John M.; Weber, Ryan

doi:10.1177/1050651915588145

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“…Written communication is recognised as an important element of entrepreneurship competency as it is recognised as a contributing factor in leading to the success of a business (Honig & Karlsson, 2004b;Spartz & Weber, 2015). Entrepreneurs needs the know-how and skills in developing the necessary written documents as part of competency associated with 'technical communication', 'professional communication' or 'entrepreneurship communication' (Li, 2019;Spartz & Weber, 2015; within in the broader context of entrepreneurship skills. This competency is specifically linked to the development of key documents linked to new ventures or start-ups, namely the Business Plan.…”

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Written Communication in Entrepreneurship Course in Malaysian Vocational Colleges: A Qualitative Inquiry

Mohamad

Idrus

2019

IJEPC

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Entrepreneurship curriculum has been implemented in recent years in Malaysian vocational colleges as a platform to expose school leavers to entrepreneurship skills and provide them the basic know-how needed to engage in an entrepreneurial career. Among this knowledge is written communication which involves the skill of preparing the necessary documents and correspondence in a start-up business. However, research findings indicate that very little is known about Malaysian vocational college graduates’ competency in this area after completing the entrepreneurship course. Moreover, existing studies show significant weaknesses or a lack of competency in communication skills, including writing among our graduates. This study aims to explore the implementation of written communication components taught in the entrepreneurship course in Malaysian vocational colleges by examining its curriculum content and teaching approaches utilised in the course. The study applied the qualitative approach using semi-structured interviews and document analysis to gather the data. 15 instructors from 10 vocational colleges located throughout Peninsular Malaysia participated in the interviews. Meanwhile, the document analysis included a course description, modules, teaching plan, lecture notes, coursework, and assignments as well as assessment materials of the course. The results revealed that the business plan model is applied to form the fundamental structure of the written communication component in the entrepreneurship course. However, several key challenges were found in its implementation, including the ambiguity and inconsistency in the key focal point within the written communication knowledge area. Additionally, short and inconsistent course delivery periods were also identified as barriers to effective implementation of the target knowledge as well as the course in general.

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Written Communication in Entrepreneurship Course in Malaysian Vocational Colleges: A Qualitative Inquiry

Mohamad

Idrus

2019

IJEPC

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“…For example, entrepreneurship is another topic of interest associated with volumes of text. One type of analysis of entrepreneurship has focused on the genres of entrepreneurial activity (Spartz & Weber, 2015;Spinuzzi et al, 2014). As with the study of genres mentioned above, corpus analysis could reveal aspects of entrepreneurial communication and activity across a wide set of examples.…”

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Text at Scale: Corpus Analysis in Technical Communication

Carradini,

Swartz

2023

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“…Питання комунікацій досліджуються активно як зарубіжним науковим середовищем, так і українським. Джон Спартц та Райан Вебер у своїй праці [2] вказують на необхідність володіння комунікаційними навичками підприємцям при старті бізнесу або впровадженні нових бізнес-ідей, акцентуючи на тому, що підприємці високо цінують такі навички, їм доводиться створювати величезну кількість документів на різних етапах своєї діяльності.…”

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International Aspects of Communication Management as a Success Factor of Business Planning

Inna¹,

Andriy²,

Verstiak³

2022

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The topic of professional communication of entrepreneurs with their partners in the aspects of substantiating and promoting their business ideas, their detailed professional description, highlighting strengths, revealing uniqueness, innovative aspects, etc. remains beyond the scope of sufficient attention when planning a business both at the stages of its initiation and development . The use of international communication management standards is often episodic and does not have a systemic nature in the Ukrainian business environment. The practice of communicative management in Ukrainian enterprises is widespread mainly among those who work with international partners, and communication at the level of a separate direction of management is not so much an element of the internal culture of management but a requirement to communicate with international partners. At the same time, communication management is an important component of business success in any country, including Ukraine. Therefore, it is necessary to highlight a number of communication management tools that are widely used today in a Ukrainian business (PR strategies and media resources, social networks, email marketing, corporate journals). Similarly, a number of international communication management standards can be identified that directly or indirectly affect it: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 26000, ISO 31000, ISO 19600, as well as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard. Some other standards that can be useful for communication management and business planning are ISO 22301, ISO 22316 and ISO 9004. The introduction into practice of compliance with the requirements of the mentioned standards will significantly speed up the process of harmonization of requirements for communications and in the field of business planning, and as a result - to improve the quality of communication of business entities in Ukraine with international partners, which will definitely open new horizons for starting and developing business as in Ukraine and on international markets. After all, communication management is an important success factor in business planning, since effective communication is a key factor in successful interaction with clients, employees, and other stakeholders. The main goal of communication management in this aspect is to ensure correct understanding and information exchange between all interested parties.

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Writing Entrepreneurs

Cited by 30 publications

References 59 publications

Written Communication in Entrepreneurship Course in Malaysian Vocational Colleges: A Qualitative Inquiry

Written Communication in Entrepreneurship Course in Malaysian Vocational Colleges: A Qualitative Inquiry

Text at Scale: Corpus Analysis in Technical Communication

International Aspects of Communication Management as a Success Factor of Business Planning

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