Entrepreneurship, Its Conceptualization and Teaching in Business Schools:Management Lecturers’ Perspective

Entrepreneurship education has been recognized as one of the crucial factors in fostering entrepreneurial attitude and thus contributing to the economy and regional development. Still, it is found that there are large numbers of problems associated with entrepreneurship education; first problem for resolution is one of the definition. In this regard, this study explores lecturers’ interpretations of ‘what entrepreneurship is’ and their approach to teach entrepreneurship. The data is collected from 232 business lecturers from three South Asian countries namely: India, Singapore and Malaysia. The study reveals that there is no consensus among the management lecturers regarding how to interpret the term entrepreneurship. However, it was found that out of two prominent approaches in entrepreneurship education, business skill approach is preferred over attribute development approach equivocally.