Organizing Studies Entrepreneurially to Adjust Inner and Outer Worlds during COVID-19
The 12th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics (IMCIC 2021): Proceedings. Vol.2 2021
Karine Oganisjana, Mats Westerberg, Lenita Hietanen

This research aims to analyze the effect of a five-stage strategy elaborated within the Erasmus+ project FOrSE (Framework for Organizing Studies Entrepreneurially) realized by three EU universities. The strategy was integrated into a study course of Pedagogy to enhance entrepreneurial mindsets and behaviors of first-year international Master students who did not have any opportunity for face-to-face studies because of the quarantine. The key focus of the strategy is to promote students’ ability to analyze the problems facing them during the COVID-19 pandemic and identify and/or realize new opportunities in the face of the worries and uncertainty. The qualitative content analysis of the Master students’ reflections and the analysis of the challenges faced, and new opportunities identified and/or realized showed that they tried to adjust their inner world to the events which take place in the outer world for gaining self-confidence and achieving harmony.


Keywords
organizing studies entrepreneurially, inspiration, opportunity identification, opportunity realization, self-negotiated action, COVID-19
Hyperlink
http://www.iiis.org/CDs2021/CD2021Spring/papers/ZA846HB.pdf

Oganisjana, K., Westerberg, M., Hietanen, L. Organizing Studies Entrepreneurially to Adjust Inner and Outer Worlds during COVID-19. In: The 12th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics (IMCIC 2021): Proceedings. Vol.2, United States of America, Orlando, 9-12 March, 2021. Winter Garden: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), 2021, pp.95-100. ISBN 978-1-950492-53-4.

Publication language
English (en)
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