Saturday 30 November 2019

Using appropriate academic ideas for theoretical framework level-1a: a note

Using appropriate academic ideas for theoretical framework level-1a: a note

The following academic ideas are not appropriate for usage in theoretical framework level-1a in the agile literature review approach (ALRA)

(Inappropriate)
2. To evaluate the marketing competence of ABC Ltd
Academic idea 2.1: definition of marketing
Academic idea 2.2: marketing management
Academic idea 2.3: Porter's 5 Force Model
Academic idea 2.4: Marketing mix model


Comments

  • Academic idea 2.1. on definition could be used in the literature review (Chapter 2) for research task 2 "To evaluate the marketing competence of ABC Ltd"; it should not be include in the theoretical framework level-1a, though.
  • Academic idea 2.2 is a broad subject; too broad for inclusion into the theoretical framework level-1a.
  • Academic idea 2.3 is not sufficiently related to the topic marketing competence evaluation; a bad choice of academic idea.
  • Academic idea 2.4 is a marketing concept; but it is still not quite related to "marketing competence"; thus it is still an inferior choice of academic idea for research task 2; it can still be used but it has to be clearly employed for marketing competence evaluation purpose.


The component should look like this, using fake academic ideas for illustration



(Appropriate)



2. To evaluate the marketing competence of ABC Ltd
Academic idea 2.1: ABC model of Jordan (2014)
Academic idea 2.2: XYZ framework of Jackson (2012)
Academic idea 2.3: 789 theory of Ho (2011)


Moreover, there should be around 6 academic ideas for a core-focus-domain component (i.e. high-level research task); for non-core-focus-domain component, 1-2 academic ideas are sufficient.

ALRA readings for theoretical framework level-1a construction

ALRA readings for theoretical framework level-1a construction:

After producing the theoretical framework level-0; students need to do further readings on the guidelines to produce the theoretical framework level-1a. The major ALRA readings are as follows:





These 7 articles offer guidelines for students to do literature search and literature review to produce the theoretical framework level-1a.

Wednesday 27 November 2019

An example of "A summary of research methods’ profiles" in dissertation reports

An example of "A summary of research methods’ profiles" in dissertation reports. This table is to be shown in Chapter 3: Research Methods of a dissertation project report:



Table 3.1: A summary of research methods’ profiles
Research methods (RM)
Data-gathering approach
Data-analysis approach
Reasoning types
RM1: semi-structured interview with senior management
Primary data gathering
Qualitative data analysis (theory-driven)
Deductive reasoning mainly; minor inductive reasoning.
RM2: Questionnaire survey with researchers’ friends
Primary data gathering
Quantitative data analysis with the Excel pivot table function
Mainly inductive reasoning; minor deductive reasoning
RM3: Unstructured interview with workers
Primary data gathering
Qualitative data analysis (theory-driven)
Mainly deductive reasoning
RM4: Newspaper articles study
Secondary data gathering
Qualitative data analysis (theory-driven)
Mainly deductive reasoning
RM5: Document study with corporate internal management reports
Secondary data gathering
Qualitative data analysis (theory-driven)
Mainly deductive reasoning
RM6: Internet research on economic statistics
Secondary data gathering
Quantitative data analysis with the Excel charts function

Both inductive/ deductive reasoning


Tuesday 26 November 2019

Saturday 23 November 2019

TQM for organizational excellence lecture 3 notes

TQM for organizational excellence lecture 3 [Quality Management 1] notes

Note 1

Note 2

Note 3
On ISO 2008 to ISO 2015 updating (re: video briefing).

Note 4




Note 5




A reminder on subject assignment work: For doing the subject assignment, please use proper harvard referencing and some credible academic journal articles in referencing.

Sunday 17 November 2019

TQM Lecture 2 notes - TQM benefits

TQM Lecture 2 notes, November 18, 2019 (online class): topic: TQM benefits

5 Lecture notes in total

Note 1


Note 2


Note 3



Note 4

Note 5

Note 6





Class discussion questions:
Q1. Are the "claimed" TQM benefits, (at what levels [re: Note 5]), relevant to Populala?

Q2. What challenges are involved for the relevant TQM benefits to be realized at Populala?
Q3. What are your opinions and what are your justifications on your opinions on the first two 2 questions

Saturday 2 November 2019

Quality management for organizational excellence assignment 2019


Assignment Brief: Quality Management for Organisational Excellence



Subject: Individual analysis of the included case study material


Submission date: 10 Jan 2020

Notes:

1.     A maximum of 3000 words. You may use tables and diagrams which will not be included in the word count.
2.     The assignment must be presented in a form that complies with the basic conventions of a report format (see Guide to Basic Study Skills).
3.     An electronic copy of your assignment has to be submitted to Turn-It-In.

Assessment:

Your work will be assessed against the following criteria:
1.Knowledge – Your work should show knowledge of the module content.
2.Understanding – Your report should demonstrate an understanding of UGB 262 QualityManagement for Organisational Excellence.
3.Insight – Your report should show an ability to analyse the ‘case study’ in the light of themodule content and your own reading.
4.Clarity – Your report should be well structured and clearly presented.

Notes:

1.     The assignment must be presented in a form that complies with the basic conventions of areport format (see Guide to Basic Study Skills).   An electronic copy must be submitted toTurnitin via ‘Canvas’.
2.     Word count – 3000 words
Assignment Guidance Notes:

Business Report Structure. 
Size 12 font, spacing 1.5, include word count at the end of the report.

Report Presentation
·       Front Sheet – Name / Student Number / Programme / Module / Date / Workshop TutorName
·       Table of Contents
·       Introduction
·       Main Body of Report – Analysis of theory and practice related to this ‘case study’
·       Conclusion and Recommendations
·       Appendix – not included in word count


General guidance and typical distribution of word count would be:

Introduction - 250 words 
Main body analysis – 2000
Conclusion and Recommendations – 750 (collective)


The criteria for grading the assignment will be:

The assignment will be graded for individuals on the basis of the specific criteria outlined in the Generic Assessment Criteria (Undergraduate) on the following page.

Note:

The “Presentation” element of the Generic Assessment Criteria (Undergraduate) will also be used (additional to the above assignment guidance notes) to assess the report structure.



Refer to the Populala Company case study (below) for this assignment:


The case study – Populala Company
Populala Company is in trouble. John Chan has purchased the century old company in Hong Kong from the founding family in 2016. The company has around 500 employees in total. More than 70% of them work in the factory in mainland China. John took up the top management position of the company as its CEO after the company acquisition, and brought with him a few trustworthy family members to join the management team of the company. The company’s main business is to manufacture and sell building construction-related equipments to industrial customers in Hong Kong and South East Asia. Now, as he reviews the 2018 results he is perplexed. After gaining control of the company, John Chan has invested heavily in state of the art equipment and consolidated operations in an effort to improve performance and reduce redundancy. He has also replaced much of the stodgy management team inherited from the previous owners, provided extensive management training for supervisors, and implemented personnel policies and operating procedures to provide appropriate controls. Yet the trend is unmistakable. Sales are down and production costs are up. Populala Company has lost money in 2018 —the first loss in the history of the company!  A number of reasons have been offered by the management team of Populala, notably: the impact of the USA-China trade war, the inexperience of the recently recruited managers in the production and sales department, and the increasingly sophisticated product demand from Populala’s customers. Moreover, there is an increase in sick leave from quite a number of middle-managers in the production and marketing departments due to high work stress. A major change is needed, in John Chan’s view.
John Chan is active in industry association work and knows that leading companies in his industry have adopted Total Quality Management. Executives from these companies speak regularly at industry forums about how their TQM programs have produced major improvements in their organizations. John is now evaluating the feasibility and desirability of implementing TQM at Populala. Nevertheless, Populala does not have cost of quality reports from its Accounting Department, and the Accounting Manager is not familiar with the cost of quality topic anyway. John is unable to tell the difference between TQM and ISO 9000 while the other senior managers all claim that they are knowledgeable in quality control and have been practising it well in Populala. Nevertheless, John feels that he needs to act quickly with outside help from some competent TQM consultants to evaluate the TQM initiative for Populala.

Assignment
As the newly appointed TQM consultant to Populala, you have been asked by the Senior Management Team to prepare a 3000 word report to explain how you would introduce a companywide quality improvement strategy. This report must also include a response to the following questions.
1. What is Quality and what are the key elements of ‘Total Quality Management’
2. List and explain the requirements for the Implementation of Total Quality Management,
3. What strategies would you use to establish a quality culture in Populala,
4. Describe how you would use ISO 9000 as an entry into TQM.


The criteria for grading the assignment will be:

Ø    First (70-100%):

Authoritative grasp of the concepts, methodology and content introduced through the module; applied all relevant theories implied by the guidance questions; all of the main features of the case drawn out and additional original insights which add to the analysis of the case; ideas reflecting depth and confidence of understanding of case issues; clear, concise presentation of ideas making good use of the conventions of a report format.

Ø    Upper Second (60-69%):

Sound level of understanding based on competent grasp of relevant concepts, methodology and content introduced through the module; applied most of the relevant theories; all of the main features drawn out; coherent, well-structured report.

Ø    Lower Second (50-59%):

Applied the main frameworks; demonstrates a coherent response to the case issues; most of the key pints correctly analysed; the underlying logic of analysis is sound and so the report.

Ø    Third (40-49%):

Applied some of the main frameworks; some of the main features of the case brought out correctly; some flaws in the structure of the report (e.g. re-open analysis in conclusions; mixing up conclusions and recommendations)

Ø    Fail (0-39%):

Some knowledge of main concepts but major omission and/or misunderstanding. Structure & nature of the report is overly descriptive. Arguments poorly supported and little or no analysis and reflection. Considerable limitations in ability to perceive the linkage between theory and practice.


Friday 1 November 2019

A research note on knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL), using the subject of Entrepreneurship as an example



Working paper
A research note on knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL), using the subject of Entrepreneurship as an example

 JOSEPH KIM-KEUNG HO
Independent Trainer
Hong Kong, China
Dated: November 1, 2019

Abstract: The notion of knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL) has recently been postulated by the writer for effective management subject learning. In order to refine the KUBL notion, this article clarifies the nature of KUBL by comparing it with that of knowledge-certainty-based learning (KCBL). It also offers an example of KUBL study material via a literature review of the entrepreneurship subject. The literature review relies exclusively on the Journal of Entrepreneurship (Sage Publications). The article makes further enhancement of the newly formulated KUBL notion.
Keywords: Knowledge-certainty-based learning (KCBL), knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL), KUBL study material, management subject learning, entrepreneurship.

Introduction
In management subject learning, a prime thinking is that learners should strive to build up intellectual capability on reflective learning and higher-order thinking. This is typified by learning frameworks such as Gibb’s reflective cycle (re: Mulder, n.d.; Finlay, 2008) and Bloom’s Taxonomy (re: Armstrong, n.d.; Vieyra, 2006).  Of late, this writer has propounded on the importance of knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL) as a way to pursue this intellectual capability building goal (Ho, 2019). In Ho (2019), the writer discusses the KUBL topic using the Total Quality Management subject as an example. In this article, the writer takes another look at KUBL, using the subject of entrepreneurship as an example. It is, thus, a follow-up article of Ho (2019).

Knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL) as compared with knowledge-certainty-based learning (KCBL)
To nuture a learner’s mindset to be receptive to reflective and higher-order learning, a management subject learner needs to understand the nature and differences between the following two types of learning, namely, knowledge-certainty based learning (KCBL) and knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL). In Ho (2019), the writer explains KUBL in terms of its six underlying thinkings as well as KUBL study materials produced via literature review. Here, a comparison of the two learning modes is provided in Table 1 as follows:
Table 1: A comparison of knowledge-certainty based learning (KCBL) and knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL) in terms of attributes
Attributes
Knowledge-certainty based learning (KCBL)
Knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL)
Attribute 1: Theoretical stance on the nature of management subject knowledge produced by the academic community
Objective
Subjective, critical, postmodern
Attribute 2: Theoretical stance on the world of management practices
Unitary
Pluralistic, coercive
Attribute 3: Perceived nature of management subject knowledge production activities
Rational, scientific, progressive, cumulative, goal-directed, slightly time-space insensitive and systematic
Cultural, idiosyncratic, political, controversial, fragmental, strongly time-space sensitive, opportunistic and imaginative
Attribute 4: Theoretical stance on the world of academic community
Unitary
Pluralistic, coercive
Attribute 5: Prime study materials of management subjects
Introductory textbooks on management subjects and practitioners’ articles on social media
Academic journal articles, notably in the form of KUBL study materials
Attribute 6: Order of learning in terms of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning
Remembering, understanding, applying and analyzing
Applying, analyzing, evaluating and creating

Regarding Table 1, the underlying views on nature of management subject knowledge, the world of management practices, the perceived  nature of knowledge-production activities, the world of the academic community, main study materials relied on, learning objectives of KCBL and KUBL are incompatible[1]; yet, the two learning modes are both essential for effective management subject learning; for instance, both of them are required to meet the range of learning needs as identified in Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning. It is by grasping their different nature that management subject learners become more capable of making use of both of these two learning modes in effective management subject learning[2]. In addition, Ho (2019) calls for more efforts to produce KUBL study materials via literature review and offers an example on such kind of study material for the Total Quality Management subject. In the next section, another KUBL study material is presented as related to the subject of Entrepreneurship.

Examining the entrepreneurship literature to come up with KUBL study material
The management subject considered here is entrepreneurship, which is “an act of seeking investment and production opportunity, developing and managing a business venture, so as to undertake production function, arranging inputs like land, labour, material and capital, introducing new techniques and products, identifying new sources for the enterprise” (Businessjargons.com, n.d.). In order to produce a KUBL study material for the entrepreneurship, this writer examined articles published in The Journal of Entrepreneurship (Sage Publications). The range of years of publication for this literature review exercise is from 1999 to 2019. Extracts on contention issues, knowledge uncertainty and knowledge gaps are gathered from 30 academic articles and incorporated into a table (re: Table 1); the key words associated with the extracts are indicated next to the extracts. The extracts are sorted in chronological order. Table 1 is as follows:
Table 1: Issues and related key words in entrepreneurship research: a sample of academic articles, in chronological order
Years of publication
Issues and knowledge gaps as recognized in entrepreneurship academic articles: extracts from The Journal of Entrepreneurship
Key words involved
Article 1

1999
There are numerous theoretical and empirical studies that consider attributes such as risk-taking, innovativeness, need for achievement, and managerial competence as important enabling qualities for entrepreneurship. A closer look into such studies reveals that the issue of age and family background has received scant attention, especially as explanatory variables of the phenomenon of entrepreneurship” (Kazmi, 1999).
Influences of age and family background
Article 2

2000
One conceptual element that is considered a major factor in stimulating new business creation and SME growth and development in regional and local environments is the entrepreneurial infrastructure. Surprisingly, however, this concept has not specifically received extensive theoretical or empirical attention. Similarly, the decision-making process for participating in infrastructure support networks has not been investigated” (Tan, Tan and Young, 2000).
Entrepreneurial infrastructure
Article 3

2002
“... we do feel that enough emphasis has not been placed on the aspect of research on women and enterprise? Attention paid to women as owners is also showing a decreasing trend, particularly if one looks into what has gone into the last few years” (Ganesan, Kaur and Maheshwari, 2002).
Women and enterprise
Article 4

2005
Ideas behind innovation are considered not singular and consistent for the entire development process, but are multiple and constantly developing, perhaps diverging or converging, and ultimately cohering into new ideas, which will have partially stable outcomes, to give rise to spin-off ideas and projects (Chandler, Keller & Lyon, 2000; Rogers, 2001; Van de Ven, Polley, Garud & Venkataraman, 1999; Woodman, Sawyer & Griffin, 1993). A more complete analysis of innovation therefore, requires a careful consideration of all the important attributes involved” (Hung and Mondejar, 2005).
Innovation
Article 5

2011
Research within the framework of social network theory has not paid much attention to the entrepreneurial attributes” (Prajapati and Biswas, 2011).
Social network theory
Article 6

2011
There is a lively debate going on, both in academic and political circles, concerning what elements constitute an enabling environment for small-scale African business entrepreneurs” (Kristiansen, 2001).
Small-scale business entrepreneurs
Article 7

2012
Opportunity recognition (OR) is at the very heart of entrepreneurship. However, research on OR in the context of social entrepreneurship is still in its early stages” (Lehner and Kaniskas, 2012).
Opportunity recognition
Article 8

2012
Traditional ethnic entrepreneurship studies focus on specific characteristics of a given ethnic group (Waldinger, Aldrich & Ward, 1990). Recent research has begun to investigate how a given ethnic group interacts with or incorporates itself into the larger economy for a more comprehensive picture (Valdez, 2008)” (Ma, Wang and Lee, 2012).
Ethnic group
Article 9

2013
“Entrepreneurship through education was seen by many policy and strategy leaders as a positive venture, however the growth in the early 2000s did not appear to be co-ordinated or have a consistent approach with most curriculum-based programmes being offered through Business Schools (ISBA, 2004; Matlay, 2005; McKeown et al., 2006; NCGE, 2008; see also Brush et al., 2003 for provision in the US). ISBA (2004) argued that there was a need to develop programmes tailored to the specific needs of target markets, rather than providing generic courses” (Higgins, Smith and Mirza, 2013).
Entrepreneurship education
Article 10

2013
Researchers have claimed that entrepreneurship is omni­present in humans, but its manifestation depends on the environment (Begley & Tan, 2001). There is a need to explore the influence of socio-cultural characteristics on intrapreneurial orientation” (Sinha and Srivastava, 2013).
Socio-cultural characteristics
Article 11

2014
Social Entrepreneur (SE) is an emerging research construct with no universally accepted definition (Austin, Stevenson & Wei-Skillern, 2006; Swanson & Zhang, 2010). SE is variously defined in terms of an entrepreneur with a social vision and abilities to analyse, empathise, enthuse, communicate, enable, empower, advocate and mediate (De Leeuw, 1999; Mort, Weerawardena & Carnegie, 2003; Yunus, 2011)” (Basu and Sharma, 2014).
Social entrepreneurship
Article 12

2014
There is a limited body of evidence exploring the individual level differences in the opportunity or necessity-driven entrepreneur’s profiles (Block & Wagner, 2007; Davidsson & Wiklund, 2001; Kautonen & Palmroos, 2009). Furthermore, there is a lack of empirical research focused on a comparison of differences between the necessity and opportunity motivation of entrepreneurship in the post-socialist or crossnational contexts. The majority of empirical evidence is based on the developed economy context and there is a gap of evidence for transitional economies or less developed countries (Giacomin, Guyot, Janssen & Lohest, 2007; Grilo & Thurik, 2008)” (Borozan and Pfeifer, 2014).
Entrepreneurship motivation
Article 13

2014
While the self-employment propensity of immigrants is well documented, little is known about what happens to ventures started up by them. Are earnings derived from the new ventures large enough to compensate for the opportunity cost of being self-employed?” (Irastorza and Peña, 2014).
Immigrants
Article 14

2014
In deciding which individual to hire for a specific job or position, the personnel selection process is an invaluable help to choosing the person with the most adequate profile and potential to contribute to the success of the organisation (e.g., Schmidt & Chan, 1998; Schmidt & Hunter, 1998). It is, therefore, quite surprising that in the field of entrepreneurship research, personnel selection theories, methods and procedures seem to be absent” (Santos and Caetano, 2014).
Personnel seletion
Article 15

2014
The study of entrepreneurship is quite young and while a great deal of understanding about it has been achieved in the past decade, integrative approaches have been rare (Antoncic, Cardon & Hisrich 2004; Cooper, Markman & Niss, 2000; Ma & Tan 2006). Whether one argues that strategy subsumes entrepreneurship or that entrepreneurship subsumes strategic management, it is difficult to deny that the apparent intersection between strategy and entrepreneurship exists (Meyer, Neck & Meeks, 2002)” (Dhliwayo, 2014).
Integrative approaches
Article 16

2015
Clearly, entrepreneurship research needs to move beyond only studying the context of small, new and owner-managed firms alone if it is to more completely capture samples that are relevant to the phenomena associated with the emergence of new economic activity” (Mattingly, 2015).
New economic activity
Article 17

2015
“... the past decade or so has witnessed the emergence of a small but burgeoning subset of the entrepreneurship literature that has started to seek to explain why entrepreneurs operate in the informal economy both in the global South (Bhatt, 2006; Bhowmik, 2007; Charmes, 1998; Cross, 2000; Cross & Morales, 2007; Das, 2003; Gurtoo & Williams, 2009, 2011; Minard, 2009; Unni & Rani, 2003) and global North (Barbour & Llanes, 2013; Dellot, 2012; Llanes & Barbour, 2007; Small Business Council, 2004; Venkatesh, 2006; Webb, Bruton, Tihanyi & Ireland, 2013; Webb, Ireland & Ketchen, 2014; Williams, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009; Webb, Tihanyi, Ireland & Sirmon, 2009; Williams, Nadin & Baric, 2011). The result is that competing theories have emerged to explain informal sector entrepreneurship” (Williams and Youssef, 2015).
Informal economy
Article 18

2015
The past several decades have witnessed numerous attempts at incorporating the concept of entrepreneurship into mainstream economic theory. The revival of this concept was spurred by the acute realisation of its absence from economic theory, as well as by the ever-growing interest of policy makers in finding out how entrepreneurship can lead to economic growth (Audretsch & Thurik, 2001)” (Dorobat and Topan, 2015).
Economic theory
Article 19

2015
Various conceptualisations of social entrepreneurship have emphasised one common purpose of social entrepreneurial ventures (SEVs)—that of devising creative ways to address long-standing social problems (Alter, 2004; Alvord, Brown & Letts, 2004; Bornstein, 2007; Dees, 2001; Mair & Martí, 2006; Martin & Osberg, 2007; Trivedi & Stokols, 2011). Despite their orientation towards the mitigation of intractable social problems, many social enterprises are unsuccessful in creating positive and sustained social change (Hamschmidt & Pirson, 2011)” (Trivedi and Misra, 2015).
Social entrepreneurship; sustainable social change
Article 20

2016
Patterns and determinants of firm growth are one of the classic, but still most emphasised, topics in management studies. At the same time, both organisational networks and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) emerged as an important area of inquiry within entrepreneurship. However, these three constructs have not previously been linked together” (Martins, 2016).
Organisational networks; entrepreneurial orientation
Article 21

2016
Though historical research on entrepreneurship did begin during the early part of the twentieth century, it moved to the sidelines, giving centre stage to the more popular managerial and organisational approaches of the 1970s. While it seems logical to blame Chandler (Wadhwani & Jones, 2006) for the same, it seems doubtful to hold him fully responsible. In recent times, there has been a resurgence of interest in historical approaches to studying entrepreneurship” (Shankar, 2016).
Historical research
Article 22

2017
Several studies have examined women’s entrepreneurship and associated barriers in different contexts..... However, no study has sought to rank and establish causal relationships among various barriers to women’s entrepreneurship” (Raghuvanshi, Agrawal and Ghosh, 2017).
Women’s entrepreneurship
Article 23

2017
While economics and sociology literature on informal firms is relatively well developed, entrepreneurship and management journals offer articles that focus on informal ventures from theory-building perspective and macro-level analysis through panel data (Bruton, Ireland, & Ketchen, 2012; Thai & Turkina, 2014; Webb, Bruton, Tihanyi, & Ireland, 2013). Very few studies have adopted the cognitive or behavioural point of view to study entrepreneurship in an informal setting” (Hallam and Zanella, 2017).
Cognitive and behaviourial views
Article 24

2017
Research has focused primarily on social entrepreneurs’ motivations and intentions (e.g., generating economic or ‘social’ value; Zahra, Gedajlovic, Neubaum, & Shulman, 2009), less on their behaviours (e.g., attempting to unite economic and social welfare logics of action (Basu & Sharma, 2014; Pache & Santos, 2013) and almost not at all on their function in the economy (cf. Santos, 2012 for an exception). Indeed, a fundamental question has only begun to be explored: do social entrepreneurs fulfil a unique function in the marketplace?” (Roundy and Bonnal, 2017).
Economic and social welfare logics of action
Article 25

2018
A key limitation of the SE [strategic entrepreneurship]  perspective is that it suffers from a lack of empirical evidence regarding the balance between opportunity-seeking and advantageseeking activities and the absence of a concrete SE model to be applied in empirical studies (Foss & Lyngsie, 2011; Klein, Barney, & Foss, 2012; Luke, Kearins, & Verreynne, 2011). Moreover, contingency-based research has provided insufficient evidence of SE effects on firm performance (FP) (Schindehutte & Morris, 2009)” (Kim, 2018).
Strategic entrepreneurship
Article 26

2018
Given that the informal sector constitutes the largest share of the urban labour force in Ethiopia, examining the effect of networks on entrepreneurial outcomes is an important yet under-investigated research area” (Kebede, 2018).
Network effect
Article 27

2018
The role of entrepreneurship in promoting innovation in large firms has received considerable empirical attention. There is a widely held view in the literature that entrepreneurship and innovation are tightly intertwined (Fagerberg, Fossas, & Sappprasert, 2012). However, the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation is not well articulated (Landström, Ã…ström, & Harirchi, 2013; Maritz & Donovan, 2013)” (Arshi and Burns, 2018).
Innovation and entrepreneurship
Article 28

2019
Since OR [organisational renewal] is considered essential to respond to a changing environment, it would be prudent to study this phenomenon, including its antecedents. An entrepreneurial mindset among an organisation’s managers, as well as rank and file, is essential for OR (Chakravarthy & Lorange, 2008; Taylor, 2001)....   does CE [corporate entrepreneurship] indeed lead to OR? If this is true, how are they linked? Second, how can OR, a firm-level construct, be translated to the functional level, such as operations?” (Joshi, Kathuria and Das, 2019).
Organisational renewal
Article 29

2019
Despite the insights produced by EE [entrepreneurial ecosystems] research, studies have not developed a theory explaining the mechanisms through which vibrant EEs influence entrepreneurial activity” (Roundy and Fayard, 2019).
Entrepreneurial ecosystems
Article 30

2019
“.... an entrepreneur can be driven by multiple sources of passion, which can positively complement each other or induce conflicts impacting the development of EP [entrepreneurial passion] and performance. Although Cardon, Glauser, and Murnieks (2017) provide evidence for far more sources of EP, such as passion for people, social causes, products or services, there are almost no empirical studies that deal with origins, developments and effects of passion that emerge from such multiple sources and domains.” (Schulte-Holthaus, 2019).
Entrepreneurs’ passion

Regarding Table 1, the main content issues, knowledge uncertainty and knowledge gaps are related to (i) personal and social factors (re: articles 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 17, 22, 23, 29 and 30) (ii) management theories (re: articles 4, 5, 7, 18, 26, 27 and 28) and (iii) subthemes in entrepreneurship practices (re: articles 9, 11, 14, 15, 19 and  25). Overall, the various entrepreneurship issues do not fizzle out, though some of them have a more recent research history, e.g., social entrepreneurship, strategic entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial ecosystem. As the sample size of extracts is small and its source is exclusively from one academic journal, i.e., The Journal of Entrepreneurship, Table 1 primarily serves as an illustration of KUBL study materials on the entrepreneurship subject.

Concluding remarks
On postulating the new topic of knowledge-uncertainty-based learning (KUBL), the writer has produced a pioneering work, using the Total Quality Management subject as an example (Ho, 2019). This article is a second one on KUBL. It refines the KUBL idea further with another literature review example on the entrepreneurship subject. More intellectual effort is required to conceptually develop this topic further, nevertheless. Lastly, the writer admits the influence of his research work on managerial intellectual learning (re: Facebook page on Managerial intellectual learning) and the multi-perspective, systems-based research (re: Facebook page on the multi-perspective, systems-based research) in formulating the KUBL topic; thus, studying the subject of managerial intellectual learning is of use to gain a deeper understanding of KUBL.

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[1] The terms of unitary, pluralistic, coercive and critical theoretical stances have been much examined in the critical systems thinking literature; see, for example, Jackson (2003) and the Facebook page on the multi-perspective, systems-based research.
[2] Education systems in certain countries (e.g., Clow, 2013) encourage students to learn by heart, which in turn favours KCBL; this is detrimental to reflective and high-order learning.