Bruce Mitchell

Monash University (Australia) · Faculty of Business and Economics

Higher education institutions implement purposeful change to improve their performance or impose changes in response to their external environments. To deal with these changes, students are expected to develop their coping capacity – the emotional and cognitive ability to manage the demands of adverse situations. Student coping is composed of four...

The current COVID-19 pandemic forced higher education institutions to pivot to online delivery. Combined with the pervasiveness of accessing information online, this has made the flipped classroom a viable option. The flipped classroom employs asynchronous video lectures and practice problems as homework and active, problem-solving activities in th...

Over the years, management teaching has increasingly used student teams to reinforce learning. Grounded in social constructivism, learners construct or build their own understanding through their interaction with the teacher and other students. Research has shown that learning through teams improves student engagement, generates greater cognitive g...

This chapter investigates the effects networks have on the acquisition of external economies. The objectives of this chapter include determining if businesses located in clusters are benefitting from external economies and identifying the extent to which these firms are using their networks in accessing these external economies. Six SME business ow...

The purpose of this empirical study is to understand how entrepreneurs mobilise social capital. A survey of 325 entrepreneurs from the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa was conducted. Analysis of variance, factor analysis and discriminant analysis was performed on a 20 -item scale on social capital variables. Results indicate that among the th...

Purpose This paper aims to assess the state of development of entrepreneurship education, determine the importance of entrepreneurship in the South African higher education institutions (HEIs), and offer recommendations for improving preparations for the developing field. Design/methodology/approach An e‐mail survey has been conducted on South Afr...

div> The purpose of the empirical study is to make intelligible how entrepreneurs use networks, as well as describe the characteristics of these networks. A survey of 325 entrepreneurs from the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa was conducted. Results indicate that although South African entrepreneurs have more contacts in their networks, they...

This study analyses the motivation of entrepreneurs for starting a business. More specifically, it aims to identify whether entrepreneurs have common motives for starting their own business, and whether men and women have different reasons for becoming entrepreneurs. A motivation scale and openended questions were used to measure motivation on a sa...

The aim of this paper is to present preliminary results from a comparative study of three ethnic groups in South Africa. Data for the analysis were collected from 325 entrepreneurs in Durban, South Africa. One of the themes emerging from the investigation was the significant difference between the ethnic groups in their utilization of networks. The...

The objective of this study is to better understand how entrepreneurs from different ethnic groups mobilise social capital. A survey of 325 entrepreneurs from the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa was conducted. Analysis of variance, t-tests and multiple regression analysis was performed on a 20-item scale on social capital variables. Results...