Entrepreneurship Education with Impact: Opening the Black Box

Abstract

This special issue paves the way for promising streams of research that EE scholars should consider as new lines of research. At the heart of the current challenge in investigating the impact of EE is a need for more systematic approaches to EE. This need is confirmed by U. Kamovich and L. Fross in their contribution to this special issue. Building further on the seminal work of John Biggs, they convincingly show that, over the past 15 years, EE scholars have paid very little attention to constructive alignment. They conclude that reporting about teaching objectives, teaching methods, and teaching content as well as their connection receives scant attention from researchers. On one hand, this might be due to editors and reviewers who are not requesting such information from the reported interventions. On the other hand, this could also be due to the fact that entrepreneurship education is not familiar with this well-known concept from educational sciences. One way or another, this systematic review clearly points its finger to one of the backbones of EE research, constructive alignment, in particular when one is interesting in its impact.