TY - JOUR AU - Hämäläinen, Minna AU - Ruskovaara, Elena AU - Pihkala, Timo PY - 2018/11/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Principals’ utilization of external stakeholders in entrepreneurship education – Evidence from the general education JF - Eesti Haridusteaduste Ajakiri. Estonian Journal of Education JA - EHA VL - 6 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.12697/eha.2018.6.2.05b UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/EHA/article/view/eha.2018.6.2.05b SP - 104-117 AB - <p>The purpose of this article is to examine the principals’ networking activities&nbsp;in entrepreneurship education. In this study, we are interested in the principals’&nbsp;actions, when they aim at developing entrepreneurship education in their schools.&nbsp;More precisely, the focus is on how principals utilize external stakeholders in the&nbsp;school context. Our motivation for conducting this study is based on the assumption&nbsp;that while there are external stakeholders supporting entrepreneurship education,&nbsp;principals and their schools are not fully utilizing them. We suggest that&nbsp;the use of external stakeholders may be related to the personal characteristics of&nbsp;the principals, and therefore we examine if or how the background characteristics<br>of the principals explain their use of external stakeholders. Furthermore, we&nbsp;aim at understanding how principals’ participation in entrepreneurship education&nbsp;related training explains the level of use of external stakeholders. As a method,&nbsp;analysis of variance and a linear regression analysis are used. The sample consists&nbsp;of 173 Finnish principals working in general education2. This article contributes&nbsp;to entrepreneurship education literature by analysis of external network resources&nbsp;in entrepreneurship education. We also pinpoint the role of the principal in this&nbsp;process. The article also provides empirical evidence on the importance of principals’&nbsp;training for utilizing external stakeholders in entrepreneurship education.&nbsp;</p> ER -