Firms in the UK have begun to look at the creation of new businesses as a method to manage the flow of innovations and this has led to increased interest in corporate venturing. Corporate venturing is defined as growing a business from inside out and involves the establishment of new ventures...

This paper presents research with small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owners who have participated in a leadership development programme. The primary focus of this paper is on learning transfer and factors affecting it, arguing that entrepreneurs must engage in 'action' in order to 'learn'...

This paper explores the role of ‘action’ in entrepreneurial learning and illustrates how programs designed to support action learning can enhance management development in entrepreneurial businesses. The paper begins by exploring action learning and the way ‘action’ is conceived in...