1. What is action learning? -- 2. Will it work in my organisation? -- 3. What does an action learning programme look like? -- 4. How does an action learning set work? -- 5. What is an action learning problem? -- 6. What skills are developed in action learning? -- 7. How do you evaluate action...

This paper builds a deeper understanding of critical experiences during the growth of a small business. Based on qualitative, case study research, it suggests that greater clarity is needed in defining what makes an event 'critical'. The concept of 'critical episodes' is introduced, as the term...

In recent years, the field of entrepreneurship has witnessed an emerging body of research that operates within an interpretive paradigm. In contributing to this research tradition, this article explicates an interpretive, phenomenological form of inquiry, described by Thompson et al (1989) as...