Teaching the attributes of venture teamwork in tertiary entrepreneurship programmes

Abstract

Purpose – The paper seeks to demonstrate the characteristics of group work that are required to teach the attributes of real world venture teamwork in tertiary entrepreneurship programmes.Design/methodology/approach – One‐tailed Spearman correlation analysis is used to assess the associations between students' grades in four group assessment tasks involving different levels of complexity and collaboration and the attributes of teamwork.Findings – The results indicate that students learn more of the attributes of venture teamwork, the more complex the group task, and the more collaboration required to complete it.Research limitations/implications – The results cannot be generalised due to the small sample size and restriction of the sample to one course in entrepreneurship. However, the findings are valid conceptually; thus the study makes important contributions to knowledge.Practical implications – The findings should help tertiary educators to improve the design and implementation of their group assessm...